Example sentences of "when we [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we sent you away , Fergus , you were a babe , no more than a few days old . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
| 3 | Our public are , when we polled them , down the middle , half liking them and half hating them , so on balance we 'd rather not have the buskers . |
| 4 | Pauline Humphries at the nursery said : ‘ We were appalled when we heard what had happened . |
| 5 | Pauline Humphries at the nursery said : ‘ We were appalled when we heard what had happened . |
| 6 | ‘ We could just not believe it when we heard what he had been fined . |
| 7 | I think one of the most valuable points that emerged from the Felixstowe experience , as far as I was concerned anyway was the fact that with all those people there when we heard their views , erm , it was quite apparent that it was n't the case of local people opposing what the County Council traffic people propose to do , many there were many different and varying interests there and , and we , we could , we can then basically come to a conclusion which satisfied , satisfied I hope most of them , but , we , we , at that meeting among the local people some supporters with some of our road safety and some were very much against them , others were neutral , but it was n't just a question of erm a , a united opposition of what we proposed to do er , and this was very valuable . |
| 8 | ‘ When we heard you were here we thought what fun it would be , ’ says Roy urbanely . |
| 9 | ‘ We were very surprised when we heard his story . |
| 10 | It was supposed to be a big secret when we heard it but Open Systems Today must have announced it internally by now — it 's killing off its stepchild , the Santa Cruz Magazine . |
| 11 | It was supposed to be a big secret when we heard it but Open Systems Today must have announced internally by now that it 's killing off its stepchild SCO Magazine . |
| 12 | He was somewhat taken aback when we identified ourselves as Customs , muttering something about clearing customs at Poole Quay later . |
| 13 | ( 17 ) oh apart from once when we went we found em + an Irish bar ( ) in San Francisco that was famous for its Irish coffees + ( ) |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 16 | We used to have to catch the bus every morning and go to Chingford to school until Mark Hall was built and , erm and there was only one part of Mark Hall school built when we went there , there was only a few classrooms and er , it 's all grew up , the school grew up around us you know it 's a bit |
| 17 | When we went there there was only two roads . |
| 18 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 19 | But then if you , I mean when we went there was that , I mean , okay it was erm it was a van was n't it ? |
| 20 | When , when we went there was this er , more gates and his little his house , right , went through the little door , or big door , and he went through to the gate and he , and he sort of goes |
| 21 | When we went there were a little carrier bag with only a tiny little carrier bag |
| 22 | and it 's a , an old fashioned music hall , more often than not well when we went it was a pantomime but the first part of the evening was an o a music hall |
| 23 | ‘ But when we came we had the fireplace taken out . |
| 24 | When we returned we found Womble grooming himself . |
| 25 | When we returned I spoke forcefully to Andy about the matter . |
| 26 | We 'd just moved in when we discovered we had a mouse in the kitchen . |
| 27 | My relationship with Isobel started going wrong when we discovered she could n't have children and started having infertility treatment . |
| 28 | Fiona drove her own car , the twin of Harry 's ( still lost ) , and settled Erica Upton in the front beside her when we collected her on a westerly detour . |
| 29 | Well all these people , we would always let them ha when we killed one we would share it out amongst the people who had given them , like er , I do n't say every time but occasionally we would do that and we 'd let them have a piece of pork you see , which we could legally do see . |
| 30 | When we left him he was a linen draper and furniture warehouseman in Finsbury Square ; by 1818 he had made his final move to Windsor Terrace , an elegant row of houses on City Road , having by then become a silk manufacturer like his cousins . |