Example sentences of "when we [adv] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we suddenly had thousands of troops come on board , we made damm sure everything was under cover . |
| 2 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |
| 3 | Human thinking and language would dissolve into a topsy-turvy jumble of uncertainty if we were to use the word know as if it were interchangeable with words like guess or dream , or if we were to say right when we really meant wrong . |
| 4 | Because if I load in You can do it it because when I when we originally loaded this , |
| 5 | We saw herds of stags and although we never actually walked for a day when we did n't see anyone else , there was a week of walking when we only saw one other person for every day . |
| 6 | Six or seven of us were spread out on the grass toasting ourselves when we gradually became aware of a small knot of people gazing at us from across the field through a gap in the hedge , a knot which grew steadily larger all the time . |
| 7 | So that when we subsequently read 70 : ‘ That thou art blam 'd shall not be thy defect , /For slander 's mark was ever yet the fair ’ , with its conclusion that the suspicion of the Friend 's evil is in fact desirable since otherwise the whole world would be in love with him , then we can supply our own ironic commentary . |