Example sentences of "[subord] when we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We completed it once with two groups of people , one starting from either end , with the ingenious plan to meet and exchange car keys half way along A marvellous scheme , except when we met , finished lunch and moved off in separate directions , we forgot the all-important handover . |
| 2 | Except when we fall in the bath . ’ |
| 3 | Except when we travel overnight , even then you were sleeping . |
| 4 | the only thing in a tent is that , you 've got somewhere to lock your money up , in it ? , your passport and that , although when we went we just left our passports and money in the tent , but I would n't do that now |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a big disappointment to lose Kharin , but despite that we still have a good team — although when we play Rangers in Glasgow in April I do n't know how many players we will have left . ’ |
| 6 | Mountbatten looked much older than when we had last met , still handsome and alert , but with deaf-aids in both ears , wearing a blazer that now hung loosely on him , and in his walk the beginnings of old man 's shuffle . |
| 7 | more in real terms on the health service than when we came to office . |
| 8 | more in real terms than when we came into office . |
| 9 | Bob graffiti : He Lives , and is now giving a living to more Jamaicans than when we walked the streets of Kingston |
| 10 | ‘ Every time we leave this country , when we come back we love it a whole lot more than when we left , ’ he growls . |
| 11 | This year , we 're spending £100,000 on books — over three times more than when we opted out . ’ |
| 12 | In fact , I gave her more thinking time than I 'd bargained for as the crush at the bar was worse than when we 'd arrived . |
| 13 | Macca said that we 've got more points now than when we won the championship . |
| 14 | Both Macca and Wilko said we have more points now than when we won the Championship . |
| 15 | At the beginning of this season Wilko said we had a better side this year than when we won the championship . |
| 16 | Certainly he expects to be happy there , but even if we were to claim that his ultimate end is pleasure we should be using ‘ end ’ in another sense than when we say that his flight was the end to which booking the ticket was the means , since to enjoy living in a place is not an activity separate from and subsequent in time to living there . |
| 17 | It 's a wider range of food than when we started , which was only in biscuits . |
| 18 | For the rest of us crying is a hit or miss experience , sometimes satisfying but sometimes leaving us drained , exhausted or more hopeless than when we started . |
| 19 | It does seem , though , that when the death of someone we love is sudden it does not have to be that the shock is greater than when we have been expecting it . |
| 20 | We have n't found him yet , but thanks to you and your horse we 'll be going away from Witney richer than when we arrived . |
| 21 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 22 | Cos when we go in after winter break that 's when we 'll find out er what topics they 're doing so we can plan our lessons and |
| 23 | Cos when we shared it out between three it was like if you just stand up and have a look along there . |
| 24 | Cos when we come home it was dark . |
| 25 | Oh yeah , cos when we lived at you see you could just go to sleep and that 's it you knew that nowt was gon na happen . |
| 26 | Cos when we went to nursery yesterday morning Jim , all the children |
| 27 | Thing 's like , I like that cos when we went to Italy we went to that Madam whatever , it 's a big erm |
| 28 | Yeah cos when we went to Cleethorpes you were on about they were Fred 's taties . |
| 29 | We moved it once and apparently it had to go a zoo after that cos when we moved it back it was about twelve foot long , and then of course it g grew even larger than that . |
| 30 | No , I 'm just being friendly , cos when we moved into the church , people invited us around a lot , and it was really nice . |