Example sentences of "when we [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not come off , but we aré such masters of philosophical self-deception that it can seem to , and then ‘ it can seem as if the rules of grammar are in a certain sense an unpacking of something we experience all at once when we use a word ’ . |
| 2 | I.A. Richards has defined metaphor like this : " In the simplest formulation , when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word , or phrase , whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction . " |
| 3 | When we use a term like ‘ light-speed ’ we are , therefore , really using it as a kind of shorthand to refer to the velocity of any form of electromagnetic radiation . |
| 4 | It is in this vast area of the unknown that transcendent beauty resides , When we clothe an object in the garments of this unknowable , our souls respond and we are moved . |
| 5 | What is apt to happen when we strike a solid is that a whole series of stress waves radiate from the point of impact and move off into the body of the material . |
| 6 | When we announced a course of foundation principles for the church , we broke Ephesians down as follows : |
| 7 | James O'Neill , 66 , on holiday from Dundee with his wife Jessie , said : ‘ We were inside the museum when we heard a bang . |
| 8 | I was having tea with A company when we heard a lot of shouting and went to investigate . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's always like this , ’ the host explained , ‘ when we roast an ox . ’ |
| 10 | When we fix a date , we 'd like you to be bridesmaid . ’ |
| 11 | What are we after when we burn a fuel ? |
| 12 | Possibly it 's the very thing we all draw on , unconsciously , when we judge a character . |
| 13 | Recruits refused to search for these food sources , even when we put a food source in a boat in the lake at the indicated spot . |
| 14 | The ones that gave of carbon dioxide when we put an acid to them . |
| 15 | We 're going to have a period , before toys start coming in with the EC label , when we 've a gap with very little to sell . |
| 16 | This tendency to give a realist answer when we request a phenomenalist ( appearance-based ) answer - which Piaget called ‘ intellectual realism ’ — is also very easy to see in children 's drawings . |
| 17 | Days later , we were only a few bio-hours from the Vadinamian system when we received a call from Mala 's pet FedPol , Chertro . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Perhaps the best decade was the sixties when we played a lot of Shaw , Wilde and Ibsen . |
| 20 | My first memories of a Leeds match were standing on a soapbox with my dad , when we scored a goal . |
| 21 | When we perceive an object there is an idea of it ‘ present to ’ our mind . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The question of the distinction between ‘ mind ’ and ‘ brain ’ is a controversial one ; is there , for example , an ‘ I ’ that is fooled by contradictory signals from the brain when we witness an illusion ? |
| 24 | Equation is seen , for instance , when we recognize a picture of someone we know ; and qualification was at work when a cave painter added the last few touches which made his bison look more energetic and more nearly alive than the others already on the rock face . |
| 25 | unnamed that is not true and I do agree with Mr that when we make a decision to close some homes that they should be named to avoid the terrible indecision which exists at the moment . |
| 26 | Clearly when we make a planning application we have to er finalize that . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But we are given an insight into the limitations of their cognitive capabilities when we observe a spider responding to a vibrating tuning fork by attempting to wrap it up for food . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | We were discussing the necessity of spending the night in the station waiting-room when we saw a taxi . |