Example sentences of "when we [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was out with my children when we passed a shoe shop with some wellington boots outside . |
| 32 | so erm , and that went on for , I suppose till the end of the war when er , when we had a reduction in hours again , we went back to the normal nine till half past five . |
| 33 | When we had a chance to view the boat from a distance with the wind at the bottom end of Force 6 , we noticed that the overlapping headsail lost its shape quite badly when half-furled . |
| 34 | Well , hang on , we 've got one pizza shared out between four people , right , erm how many pizzas would you go , you think that was just right that , that was wonderful , we all had just the right amount of pizza , when we had a quarter , when we had one shared between the four of us |
| 35 | And , of course , when we had a shooting-party , it was more like midnight before we went to bed . |
| 36 | He was always loyal and when we had a house maid who adored Basil and had little affection for his sisters and she used to stand up for him as hardly done by , he would have none of it , to my remembered satisfaction . |
| 37 | ‘ When we had a quiz , as often we did in the caravans waiting for filming to begin , Ken always won hands down . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ I was here as a 10-year-old when we had a record crowd of 75,000 for the Cup tie against Aston Villa in 1938 , ’ he said . |
| 39 | And another instance of that was well this was not so long ago when we had a loan of a barge from just a mini landing craft sort of thing where the front of it folded down . |
| 40 | ‘ A lot of good any of that did when we had a captain who could n't fucking hack it , did n't have the guts to admit it , and had to send good men into a fucking killing ground to prove how fucking brave he really was . ’ |
| 41 | When we had a show in Basle , they asked questions in Parliament . ’ |
| 42 | When we draw a picture of a planet 's orbit we show the Sun , of course , and a single line around it in the shape of an ellipse . |
| 43 | When we take a tuck or slip stitch card and try knitting it with a changes of colour , we do n't usually know what the result will be . |
| 44 | When we take a belief , desire , or intention to have caused an action , as we commonly do , we are not thereby explaining the action by referring to other actions , let alone mere movements . |
| 45 | When we seek a context for B , it may not be wise always to work within the largest parse tree containing B. The contexts found from large trees are too specific . |
| 46 | In this condition , one wrong base pair in the DNA of the gene coding for a particular enzyme means that this enzyme is functionless and the body can not easily make melanin , which is the dark pigment responsible for brown eyes and dark hair , and which is produced in response to sunlight when we get a sun-tan . |
| 47 | Rejecting Democratic appeals to outline a specific deficit reduction strategy , Bush stated on May 17 that he would make a public address on the issue " when we get a solution " . |
| 48 | When we get a house we will collect all your things . ’ |
| 49 | A police spokesman said : ‘ We can see the funny side now but when we get a report like that , we have to respond . ’ |
| 50 | As Signals explained , television ruined all this homespun entertainment but personally I found it quite a relief when we got a set and could all sit around watching King George 's funeral . |
| 51 | Everyone was fiddling like mad when we got a leak through from the office that they were sending private detectives round the houses … |
| 52 | When we view a scene , we are gaining an impression of our surroundings by the way in which light is absorbed or reflected from objects , but light is only part of a vast spectrum of electromagnetic waves . |
| 53 | When we obtained a copy of this draft in December 1991 we were concerned at its inadequacies and apparently wilful distortions and submitted a detailed critique to the college . |
| 54 | closely followed by Dennis Irwin , Terry Phelan , Andy Linighan , Scott Sellars Loads of them , Sunderland twice , Chester , Colchester , Bristol City , Watford The worst must be Oxford 4–1 1983–4 , and 5–2 1984–5 , bcause of the stick I took Also when we lost a home game to Spurs 2–1 in 1978–79 , Spurs played half the with 10 men ( Miller sent off ) and Hoddle in goal because of injury . |
| 55 | Assuming that we know how the phonemes of a particular word would be realised when the word was pronounced in isolation , when we find a phoneme realised differently as a result of being near some other phoneme belonging to a neighbouring word we call this an instance of assimilation . |
| 56 | This sometimes emerges when we find a book illustration , or a film or television interpretation , unconvincing . |
| 57 | We should be able to state which fuse we require when we buy a plug in the interest of safety and economics . |
| 58 | On Channel 2 , the unctuous host of the Gerry Springer chat show had apparently taken a serious oil overdose as he presided over a freak show of truly terrible cases of giantism and dwarfism by telling his goggle-eyed studio viewers they were each of them there ‘ so that next time we may understand and empathise when we meet a woman 7ft 10ins tall . ’ |
| 59 | All of us like to receive support from others when we have a problem , even if it is only talking things over with friends . |
| 60 | Strach and Macca work well when we have a ball winner in the side ( i.e Fairclough or Batts ) but they had to hang back quite alot to cover Hodge and White who were playing crap . |