Example sentences of "[v-ing] when [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there anything else that you learned thinking of the exercise now listening when you put the shoe on the other foot and you have to stick to . |
| 2 | I was passing when I saw the gates not shut properly , so I thought I 'd best come in and see if everything was all right at the house … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ No , it 's all right — ’ she cried , flushing when she felt the warmth of his fingers on her bare skin . |
| 4 | I was still trembling when I reached the barn and hardly said a word as Mr Bailes led me back across the road to the farm . |
| 5 | I just hope they 're chanting when we win the Championship . |
| 6 | He was still grinning when he left the centre and as Rachel began clearing up the soiled dressings she strained her ears to hear what was being said in the office . |
| 7 | Blood dripped from his sword , smoking when it touched the scorched earth . |
| 8 | How fast was car A going when it ran the stop sign ? |
| 9 | Benjamin was on the point of replying when we heard the clip-clop of horses ' hooves and saw Doctor Agrippa making his way slowly towards us ; his mount , a gentle cob , ambling along as if it was a balmy summer 's day . |
| 10 | Maybe not everything … but he 's lying when he says the Darkfall has passed . |
| 11 | During the hearing , he claimed that Chapman and the directors knew of this and accused the manager of lying when he told the commission he did not know . |
| 12 | William Empson has commented , " I find it a completely achieved poem ; probably Coleridge was lying when he told the story of the person from Porlock , nearly twenty years later … " |
| 13 | She stopped rehearsing when they reached the end of Act One . |
| 14 | Idiotically , her heart was racing when she reached the drawing-room . |
| 15 | You ca n't be accused of whingeing and complaining when you make the other person aware that you can see the positive in the situation too . |
| 16 | That same Sunday , in the evening , there was played out in the Cabinet Room the sad farce of waiting for the telegram of conditions for the line of credit front Morgans ' in New York , relayed through the Bank of England , and containing when it came the terms which were wanted by MacDonald and Snowden , but which were anathema to half the Cabinet . |
| 17 | My eyes were immediately attracted to the table and my mouth started watering when I saw the home-made cakes and jam tarts laid out on a white lace tablecloth . |
| 18 | You should check the rushes , bushes and tree branches , if any , behind you and establish just where you have to stand to cast without snagging when you lay the rod back . |
| 19 | Yeah but what I 'm saying when we got the thermal boxes you put the stuff in this big fridge er in here |
| 20 | As they were milling about in front of the camera , Rosie said to her husband , ‘ Just think — at breakfast-time you were saying when we opened the shop , we probably would n't have any customers at all , and here they are , queueing up to have their pictures taken . ’ |
| 21 | Thus it was that both the sun and our faces were shining when we took the telecabin to the top of the nearest mountain and developed a habit which was to stick like glühwein : rösti — a Swiss potato cake , fried , with two eggs on top . |
| 22 | A child rated as ‘ attached ’ to its mother at nine months ( crying when she leaves the room , for example ) may express its attachment to her again at 18 months but through a quite different behavioural repertoire ( leaving mother but repeatedly checking back ) . |
| 23 | Last year he had thought Rose was exaggerating when she described the experience . |
| 24 | He took the opportunity of his first book after leaving No. 10 to state , ‘ I was not exaggerating when I called the 1974 Cabinet the most experienced and talented Cabinet this century , transcending even the Campbell-Bannerman Administration of 1905 . ’ |
| 25 | Not even her grandmother 's Co-op book , which Moira was carrying when she left the house to go to the shop , was uncovered . |
| 26 | Outside , the rain which had been falling when they entered the building seemed to have eased . |
| 27 | It is not really surprising that animal diseases are increasing when we consider the Government 's deliberate run-down of their veterinary service . |
| 28 | What do you mean by us being set in our ways ? ’ he asked , the tone of his voice changing when he put the question . |
| 29 | Miss Bond , who was standing when he entered the room , was the perfect complement to Beryl , plump instead of lean , dainty instead of gaunt , amiable instead of forbidding . |
| 30 | As cells move upwards from the base , they continue to divide , but , unlike the stem cells , they have lost their immortality and they stop dividing when they approach the surface where they are sloughed off . |