Example sentences of "when [pers pn] be working " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I must explain that I have no phone in my study , to avoid interruption when I am working , and that I take phone calls in the dining-room … |
| 2 | A few years later Enright came to see me when I was working in Kuala Lumpur and he was Professor in Singapore . |
| 3 | When I was working at a hospice I followed up bereaved people who it was felt might need some support . |
| 4 | When I was working in Australia I went swimming with some missionary friends near Darwin . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 6 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 7 | Once I had a rather nerve-racking experience with him when I was working the horse rake in the lower field . |
| 8 | Toby appeared at my elbow in very quick time — nobody was more expert than him at getting served quickly in a crowded bar — with an extra-large glass of Scotch and a mineral water for me , my habitual drink when I was working . |
| 9 | I remember a graphic example of this when I was working for a blessedly short period as a Russian interpreter in Berlin in 1946 . |
| 10 | We met up again when I was working in television . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was working in Bishopsgate I was using a different method , ’ Dexter explained . |
| 12 | I even met one in the walnut tree when I was working in the garden one night . |
| 13 | The short answer was that when I was working as inspector of taxes I used to give these talks , I was required to give talks . |
| 14 | When I was working at a Polytechnic , we were once required to submit the areas of current research interest for storage on central records . |
| 15 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |
| 16 | Course they got away with income tax out of that because they were n't , they were n't much erm to do with income tax that time , I mean my tax at that time of the year was about , at that time was about four pound a year when I was erm , when I was working and you only paid income tax once a year . |
| 17 | Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there . |
| 18 | I had erm an eight ba er eight band wireless which I bought for a hundred and twenty quid when I was working . |
| 19 | I began to learn something myself when I was working with a group of homeless people trying to Get Something Done . |
| 20 | Not even when I was working . |
| 21 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 22 | When I was working Edgbaston , one of my colleagues went to see er , a couple er , one night . |
| 23 | I have , I did have experience with cheques and credit cards , but that was when I was working at the chemist , but now we do n't take cheques . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not so easy without transport and when I was working , of course . |
| 25 | When I was working in London , we often got clients who blamed us if their pets died . |
| 26 | Of his own interest in flying , Mr Tholen said : ‘ I was using air taxis a lot to go to the Continent when I was working at Billingham . ’ |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | I mean , other thing we really need to all , er you see , when I was working at it , and when we were doing it all the time |
| 29 | Mick , Mick when I was , when I was working down there in er the machine shop , him and erm Ian you know the bloke who one of the engineers ? |
| 30 | Right that depends on how general you 're talking about , does er , eh so that gives you an idea there , when I was working with them |