Example sentences of "when we [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we announced a course of foundation principles for the church , we broke Ephesians down as follows : |
| 2 | James O'Neill , 66 , on holiday from Dundee with his wife Jessie , said : ‘ We were inside the museum when we heard a bang . |
| 3 | I was having tea with A company when we heard a lot of shouting and went to investigate . |
| 4 | Days later , we were only a few bio-hours from the Vadinamian system when we received a call from Mala 's pet FedPol , Chertro . |
| 5 | I 've also instructed the secretary of Great Grimsby C L P to write to the Education Authority , to get us into schools and colleges and when we received a reply from the Education Authority , to my dismay , they did n't know anything about it . |
| 6 | Perhaps the best decade was the sixties when we played a lot of Shaw , Wilde and Ibsen . |
| 7 | My first memories of a Leeds match were standing on a soapbox with my dad , when we scored a goal . |
| 8 | Eventually we m , when we became a mobile , self-propelled anti-tank unit , erm my office er thing for paying everything , was a metal table , shall we say , on the inside of a truck , that was about one foot by two feet . |
| 9 | The nearest he gets to his usual form is during a discussion about the Mondays ' donation to the Hard Rock Café , coming to the grinning conclusion he should send ‘ a bong made from a Boddingtons beer tin , a packet of Rizla , some tinfoil , an empty skag packet and the sheet me and Bez slept on when we shared a flat together . |
| 10 | After walking in the relative heat for two hours , we decided that it was time for a break , and this decision was reinforced when we spotted a river which looked perfect for a quick ‘ dip ’ . |
| 11 | We were discussing the necessity of spending the night in the station waiting-room when we saw a taxi . |
| 12 | When we saw a doctor , the doctor , having read our notes , asked about us as a person . |
| 13 | One day , soon after our night outside the castle , Princess Flavia and I were riding through the town when we saw a group of people dressed in black going to the church . |
| 14 | Future page makeup programs that also have yet to see the light of day include SPUD , now called Scoop , which looked truly amazing when we saw a preview last year , and MacPage which is an Israeli program primarily designed for broadsheet and newspaper production . |
| 15 | It was very much a situation where you helped yourself , so when we saw a family group move from their table , I rushed in and sat down . |
| 16 | I was out with my children when we passed a shoe shop with some wellington boots outside . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | And , of course , when we had a shooting-party , it was more like midnight before we went to bed . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ When we had a quiz , as often we did in the caravans waiting for filming to begin , Ken always won hands down . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | When we had a show in Basle , they asked questions in Parliament . ’ |
| 27 | When we had an exchange visit from ICI operators at Billingham , they were surprised to learn that their safety suits contained materials which we 'd made from their phenol , ’ said Bob Hodson . |
| 28 | Britain invented world trade when we had an empire 100 or 200 years ago . |
| 29 | It was a mark of the respect Jimmy gained here that , when we ran an article about him in the Spring of 1977 in our Palace Programme , it evoked a larger response from our fans than any other in that series . |
| 30 | 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 . |