Example sentences of "when we [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just how lucky we were was further highlighted when we learnt that Ricci 's normal teaching rates are £250 for 1 hour . |
| 2 | ‘ The judge granted AMD a new trial based on the fact that they claimed they did n't see a Business Wire report when we announced that we sued them , ’ Intel general counsel Tom Dunlap told Reuters . |
| 3 | ‘ The judge granted AMD a new trial based on the fact that they claimed they did n't see a Business Wire report when we announced that we sued them , ’ Intel general counsel Tom Dunlap told Reuters . |
| 4 | ‘ Imagine our anger , and the anger of all lesbians and gays when we heard that the NEC , led by Roy Hattersley , had voted to exclude the commitment for an equal age of consent of 16 for gay men , ’ she said . |
| 5 | ‘ When we heard that some might be communists we decided that we did n't have to take any notice of them anyway . |
| 6 | I was with him when we heard that the invasion might start . |
| 7 | ‘ When we heard that the French were going and the British were coming , we were glad , ’ said another . |
| 8 | When we heard that the end was very near we drove to Nottingham straight away , but arrived just too late . |
| 9 | We never reckoned with this when we went and trounced the lairds ! ’ |
| 10 | I 've raised this , these points that we 've raised when we went and met Donald down at the park , and the school have said they will not erm allow the children to go that way . |
| 11 | So that was the embarrassment I had to do when we went and saw er , Mr erm I had to say to him , you charge BUPA rates do you ? |
| 12 | Well same when we went and found them boys in it ! |
| 13 | Then we got on board the little " Fingal " and soon were joined by a number who had travelled with us when we came and whom we greeted as old friends . |
| 14 | And Corner well er it it 's turned full circle has it were when we came and then er there were other firms they did away with some part of the shop . |
| 15 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 16 | The project ran into difficulties when we discovered that the forms of ‘ collaboration ’ being developed in the classrooms observed were more all pervasive yet apparently less structured and organised than had been anticipated . |
| 17 | Kadhafi said in an interview for the Egyptian political weekly Al-Musawar in October 1989 that in the past Libya had funded some groups without examining their aims and role in detail , but that " when we discovered that these groups were causing more harm than benefit to the Arab cause , we halted our aid to them completely and withdrew our support " . |
| 18 | When we indicated that we would like to clear him on the spot he was very reluctant to let us on board saying that the boat was " in a hell of a mess " ! |
| 19 | Thirty I think because it started at thirty when we pressed and went down |
| 20 | Even when we played and beat Arsenal two weeks ago , Ian still scored twice . |
| 21 | Then when we finished and come out we er there was such a commotion in the street while we were in there taking aircraft spotting a , a German aircraft had come over and it had dropped a bomb on the gasworks had the plane , and we had known nothing about it . |
| 22 | It was slightly over a year later when we felt that conditions were suitable for another attempt . |
| 23 | His minders were angry with us when we said and wrote that he is no great orator . |
| 24 | ‘ Why did n't you tell me in Brighton when we met that I was n't in the team ? |
| 25 | The lights were on over the airfield when we landed and ‘ Deemy ’ showed me to the Russian equivalent of the American B.O.Q. adjoining a very handsome and well-furnished Officers ' Lounge and Recreation Room . |
| 26 | ‘ There was no real panic but when we landed and got off the plane the window looked like a spider 's web . |
| 27 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 28 | When we responded that there were many tavern-league baseball players , yet baseball is covered as a sport , just as the average rugby player should n't stop deserving , serious rugby athletes from being covered , he snapped back : ‘ Are we having this conversation so you can pitch rugby or so you can get my answers to your questions ? ’ |
| 29 | We were a little discomfited by the request , but agreed to accede to it this once ; but when we realised that it was to be a regular arrangement , we knew that we should have to move again , for over and above the inconvenience of being put out of our room , we were sure that our landlady did not even change the sheets . |
| 30 | When we realised that we 'd missed our flight to London from Antigua , my friend said , ‘ Let's find where Jean Rhys lived . |