Example sentences of "when we [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we heard on the grapevine that one of our four-legged friends was setting up her own fan club , it certainly gave us paws for thought . |
| 2 | Then when we went on the train to Italy and all the way through France and Switzerland he chatted up one of the Marias , and when I tipped his minestrone soup over his head on Milan station he said : ‘ You 'll have to excuse my wife , she 's just an ignorant peasant . ’ |
| 3 | When we went on holiday , perhaps to Eastbourne , we used to have four or five other couples who worked in the Post Office with me — we met down there annually and played bowls amongst ourselves . ’ |
| 4 | She was still on duty when we went on that night . |
| 5 | But when we went on strike they started making slate , so in a way they were scabs too , in these two officials , officials not touched a slate if they were er not making slate before , why should they make slate when we were on strike ? |
| 6 | It all goes the same way whe when we went on holiday in O end of Octob end of October it goes |
| 7 | And when that 's right , but when , when we went on our clothes buying jaunt , we could go back to the car |
| 8 | they moved it out when we went on one occasion cos was the carpet wet or something ? |
| 9 | Yeah that 's where we went when we went on that ferry |
| 10 | He was young and madly enthusiastic for all things meteorological , with the exception of the teleprinter which he was always messing up , getting the paper stuck and so on , and leaving us to sort it out when we came on duty . |
| 11 | Though when we came on their car , somewhere on the long , dirt road to Tinerhir , there was no time for surprise . |
| 12 | When we stepped on board we found the boat largely occupied by sheep , always very smelly companions in a steamer . |
| 13 | ‘ We knew Wednesday had problems at the back when long balls were played at them , so it came as no surprise when we scored on the break to make it 1–1 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , er , you said when we met on Rhodes — ’ |
| 15 | Buff was surprised when we landed on the Star Zoo . |
| 16 | Despite Kipling 's dictum that " Never the twain shall meet " , the East had reached out and touched the West with a premonition , perhaps , of the planetary holism which was to grip our minds less than a century later when we walked on the moon , looked back , and for the first time saw the whole earth rising as a single bubble of life . |
| 17 | And when we prevailed on the prior to let us raise the stone , this is what we found . ’ |
| 18 | When we got on the plane , we appreciated the Chinese caution : it was a rather ancient Russian prop-driven machine , which must have been one of those the Russians bequeathed to the Chinese when they went home in the early 1960s , taking all their spare parts with them . |
| 19 | When we woke on the Friday it was very hot . |
| 20 | In the early days , when we had some money to spare , we would contribute to the village festivals and later , when we fell on harder times , and they had become richer and more famous for their art amongst international collectors , they would support us . |
| 21 | We recently had to face this problem in my own county when we embarked on a capital programme to computerise the library service . |
| 22 | Rounding on conservative opponents , Gorbachev commented : " When we embarked on perestroika we of course realized that it would inevitably affect the interests of those who held the actual power and who administered society 's wealth in the name of the people . |
| 23 | without protest from a parent , without a protest from a hunter without a protest from er a anyone else , that is a shame , because I tell you what , if you go drag hunting , you can keep the jobs the people are still going to have to shoe the horses traders and people like that are still going to have to produce the carriages to take the horses with them and the only people job jobs are in jeopardy are not the kennel staff it 's the terrier men and to be quite honest , ladies and gentlemen , it 's the terrier men who have actually ruined your sport , cos of what they get up to in nineteen ninety three is a disgust and at the end of the day your P R has been absolutely wrong and I hope this afternoon that Conservatives and Liberals can join with us and I 've got to thank a certain Liberal because he 's he 's put his head on the block on several occasions on this when we stood on the platform as individuals , not as politicians , as individuals on this and I think that this afternoon we 've got a way forward , we can say to the hunt , come and talk you change , we 'll give you access . |
| 24 | There was an ornate sofa with velvet brocade cushions which raised clouds of dust when we sat on them . |
| 25 | We 'd been drinking vin blanc and supping pork pies and and when we sat on the boat , sailor says , You 'll not there long , you know , we sat on the bow er on the from of the boat . |
| 26 | When we first had it , when we sat on it . |
| 27 | ‘ This bastard was removing the sniper 's boots when we arrived on the scene , ’ stated the Corporal . |
| 28 | When we arrived on the island , my mother and I followed Greta up to the house . |
| 29 | When we arrived on the island , we were invited to the President 's palace . |
| 30 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |