Example sentences of "[adj] when [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horse it up well and proper when you 're gathering up the damned folk . |
| 2 | ‘ Because it looks more proper when I am looking after a patient . ’ |
| 3 | It 's totally different when you 're taking drugs and when you 're dealing them . |
| 4 | I know , but it 's different when you 're concentrating |
| 5 | Italians only find skiing interesting when they 're shouting epithets or carving each other up , which makes for severe anxiety neurosis among less passionate mortals . |
| 6 | The project suddenly became interesting when they were forcing deuterium in to a 1 cm 3 block of palladium ( ‘ charging the palladium ’ ) by means of a 1.5 amp electrical current . |
| 7 | And you were n't you see you actually used to be interesting when you were talking and sit complete miserable bastard like Patrick does . |
| 8 | Erm a lot of people are n't so clear when they 're going straight ahead . |
| 9 | It had seemed quite clear when I was talking to Aunt Kit . |
| 10 | But to bring out questions , things that you felt in your groups that you would like to perhaps ask the others about , or came back and ask me , any particular points that you to read on or were n't clear when you were talking in a group , or things that you felt the others might you know , to talk about . |
| 11 | I was very interested when you were talking about gardening this morning . |
| 12 | There is also a suggestion that the Council of Ministers meet in public when it is acting as a legislative body , a suggestion which some parliamentarians first attribute to Mr Tony Benn in his days as Energy Secretary . |
| 13 | The need for arousal thought well should I be absolutely calm when I 'm giving a presentation but I never am so is it right and now understanding that you need a certain level of arousal to be able to perform at all is is satisfying for me because at least I understand the situation now and able to work with it rather than against it . |
| 14 | I get embarrassed when I 'm putting out there because so many people keep asking me how long and how many more times do you have to keep saying we 're waiting for the lorry to turn up . |
| 15 | I was quite wet when I was drinking the first Martini . |
| 16 | Be assertive when you are viewing a property . |
| 17 | Well they might be a friendly , oh I do n't really know but er he 's so busy you see and he 's busy all kinds of day and night , now then , we asked him a while ago to be more careful when he was switching on the freezer units at night because they were waking people up , we asked him er a while ago if he 'd be more careful learning up at six o'clock in the morning because the chain and that we could n't sleep in the morning like , and all disturbing us all like that |
| 18 | You 've got to be a bit careful when you 're renting out though . |
| 19 | And the sec yeah be very careful when you 're marking each second one because that one |
| 20 | They ai n't you wan na be careful when you 're walking down that park it 's |
| 21 | Have to be careful when you 're talking about that cos |
| 22 | Yes , but C and G are actually very good er very sound er on their er ratios , they 're pretty good , but erm some of them are n't so good , and you know , be careful when you 're coming to invest in building societies I 'd stick to the major players at the moment , even though you may get a premium by going to a smaller society . |
| 23 | ‘ For Christ 's sake be more careful when you 're climbing up , ’ said the man who slept underneath me . |
| 24 | Got ta be careful when I 'm cooking , I shall have to have the window open me I 've got smoke alarms all over the place darling which is good in a flat . |
| 25 | But it was agreed was it not that er there ought to be coupled with that , it seems appropriate when you 're talking about water supplies . |
| 26 | He also gained the lovely reputation of being particularly dangerous when he was limping , since an injury to his leg simply made him hit more fours to cut down on the running . |
| 27 | One headmistress gives a pungent summary of the prevailing philosophy : ‘ Market forces are very dangerous when you are messing with children 's brains . ’ |
| 28 | The trouble is that tiptoeing is desperately uncomfortable when you are trying to win a war at the same time . |
| 29 | John , John Venables , who is the science correspondents for Radio Cambridge , and as I say who also runs his own media training sessions ; Julian Dunn , who is Senior News Reporter for Radio Cambridge , so I hope he 's going to kneecap a few of you and make life fairly uncomfortable when he 's doing some trial interviews , and Lloyd Addison , who 's a freelance from Radio Norfolk . |
| 30 | As already noted , video lights are great consumers of electric power : for every 1000 watts of light a current of just over 4 amps at 240 volts ( 9 amps at 110 volts ) is required , so safe working practices are paramount when you are setting up and using high-power lamps . |