Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was writing in this magazine [ October 1987 ] about the troubles of the Flow Country in Sutherland ( christened then ‘ Britain 's Last Wilderness ’ ) , I suggested that the concept tends to devalue ‘ the presence of humans in remote areas and overvalue their contribution elsewhere . ’ |
| 2 | When I was sitting in that corridor there was one of the tutors on the phone , only for a short while |
| 3 | When you 're dealing in bigger figures |
| 4 | Here 's one you can do when you 're waiting in that boring old queue . |
| 5 | Later , when you are working in public relations , you will be " selling " the media on ideas and persuading the public or key opinion formers . |
| 6 | His eyes did not leave the view as he said , ‘ Did you ever think when you were living in that flat in Manchester that you would one day own all this ? ’ |
| 7 | This may be a reasonable philosophical argument when we are thinking in brief human terms , but the stratigraphical record and I both seem to prefer the doctrine of Thomas Osbert Mordaunt : " One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name " . |
| 8 | And when they are listening in this way to check their theories they have a real purpose in listening . |
| 9 | As Smith ( ibid. ) indicates , the cost of one scholarship ( when he was writing in 1978 ) was about £30,000 and by the late 1980s this had risen to well over £100,000 . |