Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] for [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I often think to myself , when I 'm paying for something , think to myself , oh I would never have paid that years ago . |
| 2 | So you put your files in these different directories and then , when you 're looking for something , er , you 'll find it more easily . |
| 3 | When you 're cooking for one , please yourself with easy-to-make stylish meals based on Dutch Edam . |
| 4 | We 're with the plays , with going to the festival of course , you ca n't , you must be serious when you 're practising for something like that . |
| 5 | Miss Tylee 's courtesy was unfailing — she was a neatly dressed lady who wore a velvet neckband and her ‘ pince-nez ’ or pinchers as we called them were attached to a thin gold necklet , ready to be placed at the end of her nose when she was searching for something required by her customers . |
| 6 | But in this quarry now in when we were working for everybody was on the same bonus , you know they was they were all partners . |
| 7 | There are also occasions when it is fitting for everything in a service to be either purist and ‘ traditional ’ or ‘ modern ’ . |
| 8 | erm We 've got to recognise the professional advice that Matthew is giving us in this report , that he , he needs professional trained staff , and it grieves me that really we can only offer a technician when he is asking for something more . |
| 9 | 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 . |