Example sentences of "when [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You saved my life when I was dying on the hillside . ’ |
| 2 | Erm we had gone down to , to , to Bognor to the christening of her , our nephew and she was n't too , th that was in November , it was sort of middle of November , and something was going wrong there and so when I , when I was retiring on the twenty seventh of November she could n't come in and er |
| 3 | " It never occurred to me till yesterday , Mr Feather , when I was sitting on the seat and she smiled at me . |
| 4 | er better support and better advice for schools , but I agree entirely with what says , it 's no good having the best advice in the world if we ca n't deliver the er , er , the , the recommendations and one of the things that er has been borne in , on me , when I was sitting on the panel looking at special educational needs that the early identification of the early intervention when there are difficulties which start to arise in schools can save you a lot of money later on and unless the schools have the resources to er , er to meet with the er recommendations which are being made on particular children , then we are asking for trouble there , so that I 'm very concerned about the fact that er , the like , like the early one which was er increase that er provision . |
| 5 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
| 6 | I met him quite by chance when I was rambling on the shore . |
| 7 | I told you that when you were sitting on the fountain . |
| 8 | When she was missing on the set , she could always be found in the stars ' dressing-rooms . |
| 9 | I was reminded of this , the other night at a little theatre , I forgotten it er , when we were watching on the point of |
| 10 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ When we were waiting on the beach I do n't think we considered our chances of survival . |
| 12 | During the last year erm when we were working on the requirement , we carried out a number of erm comparisons descoping or aircraft in various respects . |
| 13 | And it was er , it was quite amazing when we were going on the motorway we saw these cars with erm er er there was like Pakistani erm and Turkish flags flying and when we got , er when we was going at the night time to Blackpool it was crammed ! |
| 14 | In March 1908 a crossover was laid near the top of Tamworth Road , so that a second car could reverse when one was standing on the terminal stub . |
| 15 | He 'd noticed this when they were trespassing on the embankment one day , playing Robin Hood and his Merrie Men . |
| 16 | The DIY was given a lower priority from then on but , even when they were working on the house , the mood changed enormously . |
| 17 | ‘ Miss Hatherby says that she can write to the principal of her college when I 'm in the sixth form and see if they can give me a place , ’ Constance said casually when they were sitting on the lawn one afternoon . |
| 18 | Gradually you saw this self-absorbed monarch stripped down of all his trappings , until a wonderful scene when he was kneeling on the ground staring at his reflection , and suddenly he shattered the mirror against his foreheard . |
| 19 | But he mentioned in an essay the degree to which certain forms of anaemia were conducive to such creation ; and , in our conversation that day , he described how , when he was working on The Waste Land in Switzerland in 1921 ( ‘ by the waters of Leman ’ ) , he felt at one moment that his brain was going to burst . |
| 20 | The England vice-captain was later hit by a stone thrown from the crowd when he was fielding on the boundary |