Example sentences of "when [pers pn] was [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I actually first realised this at the second year , that when I was looking for the , the previous year , I noticed that in July the business went and I thought , because everybody 's gone on holiday . |
| 2 | I remember a graphic example of this when I was working for a blessedly short period as a Russian interpreter in Berlin in 1946 . |
| 3 | ‘ The personnel officer insisted I saw this 41-year-old woman when I was interviewing for a new secretary , ’ says Gina , a 30-year-old manager in a retail company . |
| 4 | ‘ I was here when you was collecting for the Foundling Hospital yesterday , and I wondered if a shilling would help . |
| 5 | It kept her going , especially when she was angling for the notice of the one man who , after giving her dinner on the way back from Bovington , had treated her with only a lighthearted pleasant banter whenever they met . |
| 6 | Ken had been at the auditions that Michael Codron organized , when he was looking for a feed for Williams . |
| 7 | Those issues were raised by the Secretary of State for the Environment , especially when he was running for the leadership of the Conservative party . |