Example sentences of "when [pers pn] be [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and when you 're kids they seemed so big ! |
| 2 | He had a limp , he had a false leg , and of course , when you 're kids it strikes you as very funny to have a woodwork teacher with a wooden leg , so he 'd say , ‘ What shall we make today , kids ? ’ and we 'd go ‘ Want another leg , sir ? ’ and things like that . |
| 3 | And when you were pros you did , you got all the mucky jobs to do as well . |
| 4 | When we are children we first experience this use of power by our parents . |
| 5 | When we are children everyone has expectations of us . |
| 6 | When we are babies we cry so that our parents will pick us up and cuddle us . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When we were kids we 'd never of dreamt of this would we ? |
| 9 | God , we used to come here when we were kids you know ? |
| 10 | When we were children we were told that we would be sent there if we were naughty . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | to play with , when they 're babies you ca n't do nothing with them . |
| 13 | Two of the local clowns , Richard Clarke ( Mary 's son ) and Ian Cross , who had lived in Bellerby all their lives , said this would have been unthinkable at one time — when they were children everybody knew everybody else , and what went on . |
| 14 | Yeah , you normally write them in a straight line but when , when they were numbers I was writing them under each other cos it was easier to add . |
| 15 | He was very good when it was subjects he understood , like girlfriends or summer holidays , but when we brought in a political issue he was n't quite so sure of it , but he grew into it very well . |