Example sentences of "[subord] when [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never saw an enormous lot of Basil except when he was passing through London and he wanted to buy pictures etc. and he would then come to see me and we would discuss them . |
| 2 | Writing is n't usually a social activity , except when you 're working on exercises together in a writers ' group — and even then you 'll find that you do most of your writing alone , in whatever space and time you can carve out for yourself . |
| 3 | Commuters read paperbacks as they sit in trains , but find that they may need to rest from this activity more frequently than when they are reading in a comfortable and well-lit place at home . |
| 4 | Meet the Brittonioni Brothers , a couple of avante garde movie makers , never happier than when they 're jetting from one international festival to another . |
| 5 | When you 're slogging your way uphill , chances are you 'll need a layer less than when you 're cruising along the straight and level . |
| 6 | The truth is that there are disagreeable aspects to nearly all work ; that what is regarded as disagreeable in work will vary from person to person and , within one person , from mood to mood ; and that , in the end , the distinction to be made is simply but none the less crucially that the disagreeable features are more readily tolerated when the worker is working for himself than when he is working for someone else . |
| 7 | There will clearly be more shadow when the sun is at right angles to a ( closely planted ) row than when it is shining along it . |
| 8 | Cos when I was telling about my music she said well you have n't got a video in that room , I said well no not yet I have n't . |
| 9 | Cos when he was talking to his wife on the phone |
| 10 | The muddle that these two uses of the word cause is in part Marx 's and Engels 's fault because when they are talking about society based on communal property , that is , before false consciousness arises , they mean by ideology the total process of cognition including language , political ideas , social rules , etc. , but when they are talking of class society where false consciousness is present they seem to mean by ideology something much more restricted : moral , political , and religious ideas and values . |
| 11 | Erm you need to be really on top of indices particularly negative indices and particularly negative fractional indices and usually expressed as a decimal because when you 're looking at circuits and stuff like that , you 'll get the erm you know , the answer will be given in this sort of form . |
| 12 | you know , I just put it on the table and left it there and as I say it 's certainly better to because when you 're looking like then it 's easier do that . |
| 13 | About the only thing he got right was what he called the magistrate , he called her a madam , because when you 're appearing before a stipendiary magistrate , one magistrate on their own , it 's sir or madam . |
| 14 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 15 | ‘ This is great , Ilona , ’ he says , leaning forward , ‘ because when I was working on Wall Street trying to get someone to risk his money on cotton , I would say , ‘ Bob , how can you get hurt by cotton ? |
| 16 | I think I also write better bass lines than I did before , because when I 'm writing with my sequencers and things I can think ‘ bass ’ very easily . ’ |
| 17 | I pretended I was someone else because when I 'm vibing with someone about other people 's records , I can pull it off . |
| 18 | But whereas when you were talking about it then I mean when I think about it |
| 19 | Yes , I did in fact erm whilst when we were going through the education proposals erm I did list reductions as John has mentioned , but I did also include the extra valuation for primary staffing that erm has went into our budget and the Liberal Democrats and I think Labour 's originally , which is now included in the combined Council budget . |
| 20 | Cos started a union up , but that was after when I was working at Squires but there was n't , there was n't a union , a union at all then , but er there was keen competition between Tonkses and cos they and , I mean they all developed the Yale and er we used to get a lot of visitors around , and er you used to get a lot of American visitors around , but erm it 's a it 's a very very old town is n't it , very old because mother used to do her shopping there and there were n't any buses running , but we used to go by wagonette from er to do the Saturday shopping er Applobish used to run the wagonettes and the daughter used to drive the two horses and |
| 21 | I think the key to it has been in the past that if we can establish a platform with the front five and get our back row really involved with the support play that they can produce , Bath going backwards certainly do n't look as strong as when they are coming at us . |
| 22 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |
| 23 | Yet , at best , this is unreliable , as when I am thinking of your beautiful wife while discussing with you the state of the nation . |
| 24 | But I would not see it as when you 're looking along the because that 's the first way you 're taught it . |
| 25 | Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats . |