Example sentences of "when [pers pn] be [noun] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we are children we first experience this use of power by our parents . |
| 2 | When we are babies we cry so that our parents will pick us up and cuddle us . |
| 3 | Er I when we were midwives we used to say that was the way to bring a child up but w when you 'd had your own you sort of bent the rules a little bit more . |
| 4 | When we were kids we 'd never of dreamt of this would we ? |
| 5 | When we were children we were told that we would be sent there if we were naughty . |
| 6 | If the fragment of discourse one wished to study was only the part of ( 5 ) beginning , when we were children we used to use this taw , then accounting for the speaker 's mention of the trolley near the end of this fragment would have to be done in terms of the preceding discourse ( i.e. all the first section before the taw is mentioned ) in which the trolley is introduced and characterised . |