Example sentences of "[v-ing] when i [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye it was sti , yes it was still going when I came up here . |
| 2 | Sam was cleaning the same damn glass he had been cleaning when I came in . |
| 3 | And that 's where I was lying when I came round just now . |
| 4 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
| 5 | ‘ What were you saying when I came in ? ’ she said . |
| 6 | Commenting on a literacy , or ‘ English ’ class , Mathew , a male user who had had a ‘ normal ’ education , said : ‘ They were just sat about talkin' ; some of 'em were drawin' when I went in . |
| 7 | But maybe you think of course I started rambling when I started off but er |
| 8 | Everyone said I was playing when I got out the clay or plasticine , but really I was training myself without knowing it . |
| 9 | ‘ Is that what you were discussing when I barged in ? ’ |
| 10 | I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait . |