Example sentences of "when [pers pn] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 2 | The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library . |
| 3 | Often in the days when she had been touring , had not the same thing happened — and nothing thought of it ? |
| 4 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |
| 5 | Her mother 's breath had been sour as it always was when she had been drinking . |
| 6 | This second misfortune seemed to revive her memories of the earlier time when she had been carrying his child and had been given to understand that her husband had been simultaneously carrying on an affair with some young army chauffeuse . |
| 7 | Biting her lip Amabel reproached herself thoroughly and sincerely for not having forced her to wear those whalebone stays all night when she had been growing up . |
| 8 | Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham . |
| 9 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 10 | And I 've seen the look in your eyes recently when you 've been watching the singers on stage . |
| 11 | What do you imagine goes on in my head all night when you 've been talking about splitting up ? |
| 12 | That 's why when you 've been running hard you 've got the stitch or whatever , that 's caused a buildup of lactic acid in the er muscles , what you then do is your muscles say , Enough . |
| 13 | Obviously you know when you 've been sitting still this is probably the worse hour of the day . |
| 14 | up to this last week when you 've been doing |
| 15 | Well it 's like er now that sometimes when you 've been doing the message you know you might talk a little bit different but I mean he 's had elocution lessons . |
| 16 | ‘ Since when you have been living with Mr and Mrs Fanshawe ? ’ |
| 17 | so far , and then we go on that at least once a week when we 've been shopping |
| 18 | We thank you for those who have ministered your word to the church of St Leonard 's during the weeks when we have been meeting in the School for the Deaf ; so we thank you for John , Alan and Emily , for the readers and for those chaplains and ministers who worship with us . |
| 19 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 20 | They did n't fire a response in her , but it felt nice , like when they had been holding hands . |
| 21 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 22 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
| 23 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
| 24 | Sometimes , when he had been sitting near the side of the boat , an ill-considered back cast sent him flying into the water ; and often it was a close run thing before I could get the landing net under his sodden frame . |
| 25 | All the same , he wished he 'd paid a little more attention to what had gone on when he 'd been leaving the depot so that he could have spotted when they carried out that trick with the form he was supposed to have dropped . |
| 26 | Sometimes , when he has been working in the garden , he will come in and sit down , then out again and does a bit more . |
| 27 | A few days ago , when it had been snowing , I saw a group of Savoy cabbages standing frozen and benumbed , and it reminded me of a group of women in their thin petticoats and old shawls which I had seen standing in a little hot-water-and-coal shop early in the morning . ’ |
| 28 | Domestic developments were dominated during the second half of the year by the Gulf crisis , which emphasized Djibouti 's close relationship with France at a time when it had been striving to build up its image as a non-aligned Arab state . |