Example sentences of "when [pers pn] have been [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember that first Christmas when she put the cat among the pigeons by saying to me your husband told me that he ca n't really afford he 's flying because you spend all his money , when I , when I 've been backing him , saving money for his aeroplane and his lessons and |
| 2 | Oh cos when I 've been doing it |
| 3 | Ven swiftly reassured her , and — even while it was dawning on her how he was accepting her ‘ no ’ without question when she had been giving him a ‘ yes , yes , yes ’ for the past five minutes , he was reaching for her wrap . |
| 4 | It does seem , though , that when the death of someone we love is sudden it does not have to be that the shock is greater than when we have been expecting it . |
| 5 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 6 | He had seen that when he had been watching her ; had seen how she looked at everything with that curious , almost arrogant stare of hers . |
| 7 | Only when he 's been drinking he just — he — ’ |
| 8 | and when he 's been drinking he 's very violent . |