Example sentences of "[subord] when [pron] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never did think they were primitive and they always told the truth ( except when they were teaching me the language ) and were a damn sight more trustworthy than some of the white men we had on the job . |
| 2 | ‘ Except when we were making love — that was the only time you seemed to let me anywhere near you . ’ |
| 3 | What it means is that I have to be with him , except when I 'm working , since he ca n't always take time to be with me . ’ |
| 4 | If you see a dog make a controlled attack in a Schutzhund test , that attack is always silent , except when he is holding the helper at bay in the hide , when he again calls up the pack ( his handler ) . |
| 5 | Except when he 's working . ’ |
| 6 | I never saw an enormous lot of Basil except when he was passing through London and he wanted to buy pictures etc. and he would then come to see me and we would discuss them . |
| 7 | ‘ No , he kept the studio locked except when he was working , then he hated to be disturbed . ’ |
| 8 | Except when you 're negotiating multimillion companies . |
| 9 | Writing is n't usually a social activity , except when you 're working on exercises together in a writers ' group — and even then you 'll find that you do most of your writing alone , in whatever space and time you can carve out for yourself . |
| 10 | Except when you are hobbling around dispatching shot after shot into the beautifully manicured lakes thoughtfully scattered around the landscape , leaving a trail of Band-Aids in your wake . |
| 11 | My Bella 's very exclusive ; except when she 's slumming . |
| 12 | ‘ Except when she was doing grand larceny on someone else 's husband . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't really I think I might have come across that before once when I was doing my placement on actually . |
| 14 | Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off |
| 15 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 16 | Commuters read paperbacks as they sit in trains , but find that they may need to rest from this activity more frequently than when they are reading in a comfortable and well-lit place at home . |
| 17 | It is better to go in when they are losing money than when they are making money ; then one has more muscle ’ . |
| 18 | Meet the Brittonioni Brothers , a couple of avante garde movie makers , never happier than when they 're jetting from one international festival to another . |
| 19 | The Austrians returned in his absence , and were assisted in their reconquest by the Russians and the Italians themselves who were never more happy , it seems , than when they were assisting one despot to overthrow another . |
| 20 | I suppose I do n't love you any more here than when we 're walking together in Ladbroke Grove — how romantic that might sound to a foreigner , by the way — and yet it seems as if I do . ’ |
| 21 | Lil would be the first to say — and Nick would back her up that I am never happier than when I 'm banging my head against a wall . |
| 22 | When you 're slogging your way uphill , chances are you 'll need a layer less than when you 're cruising along the straight and level . |
| 23 | Both tasks require courage of a high order , imagination , and the ability to lead people , but the last is very much easier when plainly you are advancing , and your organization is on a winning streak , than when you are trying to hold the team together while struggling against what at times appear to be nearly impossible odds . |
| 24 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 25 | On top of the unenthusiastic reviews for his last three movies , there appeared , at the same time , an article by Pauline Kael called ‘ Notes on New Actors , New Movies ’ in The New Yorker , in which she wrote : ‘ Dustin Hoffman has become such a culture hero that one hesitates to point out that he 's more relaxed and likeable on TV talk shows than when he 's acting . |
| 26 | And he 's never happier than when he 's falling flying , floating through the air . |
| 27 | The truth is that there are disagreeable aspects to nearly all work ; that what is regarded as disagreeable in work will vary from person to person and , within one person , from mood to mood ; and that , in the end , the distinction to be made is simply but none the less crucially that the disagreeable features are more readily tolerated when the worker is working for himself than when he is working for someone else . |
| 28 | Pound was a serious man , and never more serious than when he was writing poetry ; and his poetry drives towards just those unpalatable conclusions that Olson forces us to look in the face . |
| 29 | An unemployed engineer in Coventry , who joined the Labour Party after being made redundant , walks to all his meetings and reckons he wears out his shoes three times faster than when he was working . |
| 30 | When the laser is reading information from the small , inner diameters of the disc , the disc 's rotation is significantly slower than when it is reading data from the larger , outer diameters . |