Example sentences of "when we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we moan about them , we should remember that 31 reporters have died in Yugoslavia since the fighting began . |
| 2 | ‘ You mean that when we divorce after as short a time as possible you 'll give me a lump sum ? ’ she enquired , her voice frigid . |
| 3 | ‘ — and when we divorce , I 'm grateful to know you 'll pay towards Thomas 's upbringing , but I do n't want any money for myself . ’ |
| 4 | The question is what there is about what we learnt when we learnt the rule for + 2 which makes the continuation 20,002 , 20,004 , 20,006 objectively correct , and 20,004 , 20,008 , 20,012 objectively incorrect . |
| 5 | Just how lucky we were was further highlighted when we learnt that Ricci 's normal teaching rates are £250 for 1 hour . |
| 6 | That 's fine , for those with the courage to do it , but most of us have enough shocks in midlife when we catch sight of ourselves fully clothed . |
| 7 | Only when we catch up with the Americans in this respect shall I feel comfortable ’ — Vadim Tumanov , displaced Soviet politician , reflecting on his first trip to the US . |
| 8 | I wo n't half give him a piece of my mind when we catch him . " |
| 9 | When we focus on differences between Japan and the West it has been common to paint pictures based to a large extent on our general impression of how relations at work offer such sharply contrasting attitudes to work . |
| 10 | But it is a different story when we focus on phonological change . |
| 11 | One other possible objection is that the difference which we are describing may be real but should not be regarded as part of syntax , rather as a variation that comes into play only when we focus on the correlation between linguistic expressions and external non-linguistic phenomena . |
| 12 | And they 're in a terrible state when we pick them up . |
| 13 | As so often when we contemplate English village society much depended upon particular local conditions . |
| 14 | ‘ When we sent you away , Fergus , you were a babe , no more than a few days old . ’ |
| 15 | For example , what messages are we conveying when we separate some children from others ? |
| 16 | But feasibility studies have been carried out and we should be in a position to act when we know what is expected . ’ |
| 17 | We can take final readings and decide on an official union line when we know all the facts . |
| 18 | Even the busiest of us can be persuaded to give of our time and our expertise when we know that the task we are undertaking will take a pre-specified and limited time . |
| 19 | ‘ We probably will , when we know what 's going on . |
| 20 | They say ‘ I 'm all right ’ or ‘ I 'm fine ’ when we know , as a friend or a partner , that there is something wrong but the opportunity to share the problem is not taken . |
| 21 | Relationships become secure only when we know our partner and we are known by them . |
| 22 | When we know how someone 's filter functions we are more effective at loving them in a way that they will perceive as love . |
| 23 | Sometimes we have emerged after a four hour session praying for revival to gulp down the night air with such joy and satisfaction as can only come when we know we have been with God . |
| 24 | When we know that so many policemen carry out their work with courage and good humour , their example should be highlighted to boost morale throughout the country . |
| 25 | It is a relatively easy matter , when we know the pedigrees of animals , to arrange choices between members of the opposite sex of different degrees of relatedness . |
| 26 | We are all structural-functionalists today , just as we are all in a way Freudians and Marxists whether we like it or not ; but we must also recognize that we do gain additional insight into the significance of social phenomena when we know where they come from spatially and temporally . |
| 27 | Yes , I 've always , I 've always understood , understood more recently the reason why that there would always seemed to be enough prisoners , when we know there really must be enough prisoners throughout the world is that the betting procedure and they 're making quite sure they 're the right people takes time and money and effort , erm , that 's part and also there are some areas of the world now , where , where there are n't as many prisoners as there were , there are very few , there are very few prisoners of conscience in Latin America because they do n't put them in prison they just get rid of them , they just disappear and there are practically , practically none from Latin America countries , cos of these , these disappearances rather than being put in prison , erm , but it 's a sort of combination of reasons I think but er quite a long time now , ten , fifteen years I think groups have only had one prisoner , whereas when I first joined and Ann 's there , we had three did n't we at one time ? |
| 28 | When we know each other better we will use more tactile communications , such as pushing , slapping , stroking and supportive gestures . |
| 29 | Indeed the kinds of arguments that are mustered ( Jesus did not ordain women and that is a fact , the church has not ordained women and that is a fact , women in all societies have been subordinate to men and that is a fact ) become no arguments at all when we realize the context in which Jesus did what he did , when we know that the biological views on which Thomas Aquinas ' views were founded were false , and live in a world in which ( in our western societies at least ) women are coming to take their place as the equals of men . |
| 30 | Both have been chronicled in this book , and perhaps we can say now of Eliot what he once said of another poet , " We also understand the poetry better when we know more about the man . " |