Example sentences of "[Wh adv] we [was/were] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the three mornings each week when we were n't due to train , Graham and I would get up in the cool sun of early morning at seven and play either golf or tennis . |
| 2 | but one of the times when we were not chatty , but talked , she said how naughty he 'd got , but I mean she 's never with him |
| 3 | I remember joking about us going down last year when we were briefly third from the bottom but there 's no funny side this time . ’ |
| 4 | I do think that the struggle for national liberation , certainly in my country at the times when we were most successful in that struggle , were the times when more opportunities were opened up for my own liberation and my own freedom of choice as a woman . |
| 5 | A visit to the market on Wednesdays was a highlight of the week when we were too young for school . |
| 6 | It was normally polite , and expedient , to pay respects to the military commander of an area on first arriving , but this was the only time when we were actually frog-marched off to meet him before we had time to draw breath . |
| 7 | But faced suddenly with being alone through bereavement or divorce , or gradually through the natural lessening of family ties and dependency , we may find ourselves feeling very differently , remembering with nostalgia the days when we were so busy , needed and surrounded by others . |
| 8 | It was only when we were very close that he would say he was shy . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm even more excited to get a letter nowadays than in the days when we were very young . |
| 10 | I think , Maureen , I remember when we were about fifteen , at the last count she had forty nine first cousins ! |
| 11 | ‘ It also takes us back to nature and our history when we were much closer to animals . |
| 12 | Gym class was the place where we were most vulnerable . |
| 13 | There were no unexpected occurrences during the operation — that 's why we were so upset . ’ |
| 14 | That was why we were so upfront about Dowty . ’ |
| 15 | That 's why we were so surprised when we saw the income from the gate . |
| 16 | Listen what Paul says when he writes to the Romans in chapter five he says , for why we were still helpless , at the right time Christ died for the ungodly . |
| 17 | However we were most interested to watch the girls at work one evening when they put on a display for us . |