Example sentences of "when we [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 And then just when we might not stop , oh my love , my virgin forest and me your virgin explorer , it is time , just like that , to stop .
2 But Mr Westbrook adds : ‘ There are occasions when we might invoice a customer in Austrian schillings , bank it in a DM bank account and yet account for it in sterling . ’
3 We had been held for three and a half years and we still had no idea when we might be released .
4 It felt absurd that we should be indoors poring over papers when we might have been out there , basking in dappled sunlight , bathing in the lake .
5 I had no idea when we might be going to Dili , so I was unable to time my campaign , to know when to bring it to a climax , to know when I could afford to cool things down , to be nice to her , for I did n't want to be thrown out of the house there and then , did I ?
6 In November , I wrote to him pointing that the formal period for consultation was ending and I asked when we might hear his response to the Green Paper .
7 There may be one or two when we might just say well perhaps just a little bit more volume but it 's not perhaps just er slacken off on the pace a little bit .
8 Some people reduce it to a sort of nine to five or a nine to six type job , but I think many of us feel it 's so totally open-ended we 're never quite sure when we ought to start and we 're never quite sure when we ought to finish .
9 Some people reduce it to a sort of nine to five or a nine to six type job , but I think many of us feel it 's so totally open-ended we 're never quite sure when we ought to start and we 're never quite sure when we ought to finish .
10 It 's coming to the stage soon when we 'll have to put it in a building society , get some interest on it .
11 Before we go a word about tomorrow night 's programme when we 'll be looking back at some of the highlights from the first ten years of Central News .
12 And we 'll bring you news of Oxford 's match at Tranmere in our late night news … when we 'll also have the score from tonight 's game at Kingsholm …
13 That 's it for now , but I hope you 'll join me later for tonight 's Central Lobby when we 'll be taking a look at the history of Oxford Prison .
14 Finally a look ahead to tomorrow 's programme when we 'll be following a detachment of airmen from RAF Lyneham who 've spent the last two months flying food to the starving in Somalia .
15 ‘ His real father 's in the Merchant Navy , and when we 'll see him next , I could n't say .
16 I tell you when we 'll have to put this on on Saturday night !
17 Well , if they 'd like to come at the fire station with their money today , barring fire calls , when we 'll be out of course , or if they see the fire engine driving round Didcot and it has n't got its blue lights on and they want to flag us down , they 're more than welcome to .
18 We vagrants have to seem strong when we may feel weak .
19 You have agreed to ensure that any information which we may require for the purpose of providing the services set out in this letter is made available to us , as and when we may reasonable require .
20 You have agreed to ensure that any information which we may require for the purpose of providing the services set out in this letter is made available to us , as and when we may reasonably require .
21 You have agreed to ensure that any information which we may require for the purpose of providing the services set out in this letter is made available to us , as and when we may reasonably require .
22 You have agreed to ensure that any information which we may require for the purpose of providing the services set out in this letter is made available to us , and when we may reasonably require .
23 ‘ … we are of course much gratified to hear of your safety and that your expedition is progressing so prosperously : at the same time the Letter although a long one does not tell us half the things we most wished to know : it does not say ought of your movements , when we may expect you home , how Mrs Gould is , whether your attendants have answered your expectations , how Mastr .
24 The problem of thinking we are attaching the same meaning to a word or action when we may not be can be appreciated humorously .
25 There is no sense in training to use fancy navigation aids when we would be unable to use them in wartime , and besides — that 's cheating .
26 A Dorset village boy was sent ‘ to a very old man ’ to be taught to read , but learnt little : the old man stood ‘ facing the window , puffing away at his pipe , and when we would ask him to explain anything that we did not understand , he would tell us that he watched the chimneys to see when other people lit their fires … . ’
27 J. and I spent that Christmas at our separate homes , but were back on camp for the New Year celebrations , the first new year of peacetime for seven years , and as 1945 drew to a close most of us were beginning to look tentatively ahead to the future when we would no longer be bound by the rules and regulations which had fenced us in for so long , and to wonder where we would all be in another twelve months .
28 When we would expect a feeling to be expressed to some extent by both partners but instead one person is quite overcome with emotion while the other is apparently untouched , we may assume that one carries and expresses the feeling for both .
29 There were occasions when we would get hysterical with delight at uncovering yet another layer of our much maligned identity , and find the words to talk about it .
30 Research has shown that we are normally not conscious that it takes place , but that we are uncomfortable if it is missing when we would expect it or present on inappropriate occasions — for example in a greeting from a complete stranger .
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