Example sentences of "were [verb] when we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our efforts last year were completed when we made a major presentation to the fund at a prize-giving in October . |
| 2 | We were applauded when we reported our record , and one of the newly recruited flying students opened a few bottles of root beer by way of celebration . |
| 3 | A lot of things were said when we broke up and perhaps we regret saying them . |
| 4 | On my mother 's instructions , I always refused any drinks that were offered when we went to visit her . |
| 5 | The seeds of this development were sown when we allowed the strange possibility of superposing states , mixtures of the classically immiscible " here " and " there " . |
| 6 | As they were milling about in front of the camera , Rosie said to her husband , ‘ Just think — at breakfast-time you were saying when we opened the shop , we probably would n't have any customers at all , and here they are , queueing up to have their pictures taken . ’ |
| 7 | Thus it was that both the sun and our faces were shining when we took the telecabin to the top of the nearest mountain and developed a habit which was to stick like glühwein : rösti — a Swiss potato cake , fried , with two eggs on top . |