Example sentences of "when we [be] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Purchases are up more than I thought people purchasing all the time is , that 's fine , they 've got a system , we can describe that in a paragraph here and that 'll satisfy them but there 's more of a problem when we 're buying in the software , more than a one off thing . |
| 2 | What do we do when we 're engaged in a drama and the children come up with solutions to problems that are historically inaccurate ? |
| 3 | So it 's surprising that when we 're staying in a guest house on a walking holiday we 're content just to order ‘ a packed lunch ’ , and hope for the best . |
| 4 | practice when we 're going in the world |
| 5 | I mean it 's mostly for the kids or if , w when we 're travelling in the car anywhere . |
| 6 | And we do know , that when we 're negotiating in Europe , the fact that we do not negotiate as the er , Portuguese , the Spanish , the Germans , negotiate , as a regional government , it means that we carry less clout , and that is a fact of European life . |
| 7 | When we are tempted in our pride |
| 8 | Equally , what an encouragement it is to know that there is , in struggling Christians on earth , one of the Godhead who ‘ is around ’ on our behalf ; and that when we are agonising in prayer , we do not approach the Almighty on our own , in all our poverty . |
| 9 | There 's some valuable work gone on there , and you can , and if and if we 're going to deny these people , the opportunity of of achieving anything like their potential , I mean , it seems such a shame , when we , you know , when we are succeeding in the rest of the programme . |
| 10 | Extent is the number of people who will have the pleasures or pains , and it will be invoked when we are thinking in terms of some average effect on persons affected rather than of named individuals . |
| 11 | This may be a reasonable philosophical argument when we are thinking in brief human terms , but the stratigraphical record and I both seem to prefer the doctrine of Thomas Osbert Mordaunt : " One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name " . |
| 12 | When we are engaged in an informal social chat we are not usually trying to express ourselves succinctly or precisely . |
| 13 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 14 | Those of us who are sexually assertive still find that our confidence crumbles when we are ridiculed in public spaces . |
| 15 | Believing in God 's goodness is easy when we are moored in calm water . |
| 16 | ‘ She had always admired Robert De Niro 's work and she phoned him repeatedly when we were living in New York , using the name of a mutual friend . |
| 17 | We went , when we were staying in York , we went to erm used to go to a pub for our meals did n't we ? |
| 18 | For instance , I could n't believe it when we were kept in the dark about the team until the hour before kick-off . |
| 19 | And I would like to say thank you to the people who sit on the budget review sub- committee , a committee which actually I do n't attend as often as I probably ought to , particularly to the labour spokesperson , for the way he 's guided the committee , both from within the chair and at other times , on it 's work this year , to be able to propose a budget which erm , so well fulfils the aims that many of us had when we were elected in May , which were of course , to maintain services , er , to squeeze efficiency out of the sy into the system and squeeze any waste out , and to get our officers working towards zero base budgets . |
| 20 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 21 | ‘ It 's nice here in the summer , ’ said Mrs Monro when we were sitting in the pub by a window overlooking the river and the distant fields . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ I was staggered to learn that limestone was to go from Redmire to Redcar by road when we were told in 1988 that British Steel could n't get enough of it and had put on an additional train . |
| 23 | We ran across David Crosby when we were playing in LA , the same night we met Joan Baez and Jackson Browne . |