Example sentences of "when [pron] were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You called him when you were getting the drinks ! ’ |
| 2 | When you were getting the message , what did that consist of . |
| 3 | Remember a couple of weeks ago when you were taking the piss out of him for being scruffy , you told him not to come in again unless he was wearing a tie . |
| 4 | When , when you were taking the was it better ? |
| 5 | You never said that when you were creating the cost , the cost of living which was inflation was soaring up to thirty percent , twice as much as what this bloody V A T will introduce . |
| 6 | By the time the bombs dropped it was too late because the plane had passed over , so it was when you were hearing the planes you were worried . |
| 7 | When you were searching the kitchen area for the assailant , did you notice if one of the windows was n't properly closed ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm ten , and so are you , ’ replied Mary , forgetting to be careful , ‘ because when you were born the garden door was locked and the key was buried . |
| 9 | Yeah but it was n't done in a , in an enthusiastic manner it was like a sort of well who do you know like friend , family that sort of thing and at the beginning I thought you was a bit more positive but I thought when you were revisiting the , the planning the future that might have been nerves right at the beginning of the session , you then relaxed and your pace all slowed down , excellent at reminding er Jim picked up referrals mentioned earlier , handled the objection okay , do n't remember you asking Jim to contact them beforehand do n't think you did , Jim did he ? |
| 10 | Yeah and and the other thing which I , actually I 've been laughing at here is because you were laughing at yourself when you were asking the questions . |
| 11 | I , I think erm I think it may have been that er you , they assumed you 're lacking confidence because you were laughing at yourself so much when you were asking the questions . |
| 12 | Erm I thought that erm I , I mean I was getting some things that John has n't , has n't mentioned , erm when you mentioned the wife being there erm when you , when you were introducing the C C Q you then assumed that you would be coming back with recommendations |
| 13 | Er did you know about this when you were offered the flat ? |
| 14 | Mm some people decided they were going to work as a , as a group on their table , to gather information and when you were doing the tallies last week , you helped each other did n't you , some of you helped , you were talking to one another to help make sure that you got the right number of tallies , if you worked with some other people to get the survey questions and do the tallies , sign it , if you did everything on your own , leave it blank is anyone not sure what to do there ? |
| 15 | When you were walking the rope , there 's so many of you walki you walk so far t till you meet another fellow , h he goes on and you come back . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Just the way you once wished it could when you were regretting the good old days when a man could keep his unsuitable mistress hidden away , knowing she 'd be there waiting upon his pleasure , whenever he felt the urge and could spare the time to see her . |
| 18 | When we were watching the end of the film of Brahms 's First Symphony which you 've been editing , I noticed you giving a very accurate two-handed performance of the timpani part on the table in front of you . |
| 19 | When we were discussing the name of the new Department , I remember a senior civil servant suggesting to the Prime Minister that , with all those powers , it should be called ’ The Department for Living ’ . |
| 20 | And we had put it on fire and it had died down , you could have put it on two or three shovels , when we were leaving the place do you see , and it was all quiet and all all right now , and off we went home . |
| 21 | Sometimes there are just two , as when we were considering the polarisation of light . |
| 22 | when we were looking the other day , he quite fancies it . |
| 23 | ‘ You know we always used candles down here when we were using the workbench , Joe . |
| 24 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 25 | When we were buying the house , he said he could n't get the mortgage on his salary . |
| 26 | Then , when we were demoing the songs during pre-production , I recorded the different lead breaks on separate tracks . |
| 27 | Keith takes this further : ‘ We were a little limited when we were recording the guitars , limited by the size of the room and the fact that some of the gear was n't working properly , so obstructive forces were at work and this is where compromise comes in ; you 're spending all this time when you know it could be a lot better . ’ |
| 28 | When we were making the recording I have to say it made me feel completely happy ; it is a piece which has such perfection of form . |
| 29 | This is why I was so concerned when we were making the new set of the Beethoven symphonies in 1977 . |
| 30 | ‘ It did n't seem good when we were making the test . |