Example sentences of "when [pron] were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | you tell mother when I were fighting for me country , he ai n't got a bloody scratch on him now |
| 2 | That 's where I was earlier when you were looking for me . ’ |
| 3 | Is this what you found when you were looking for that card ? |
| 4 | Where you aw aw aw a a aware of that you were in a a b business that was succeeding when you were working for him ? |
| 5 | Mrs Darling , what was going through your mind when you were waiting for the verdict ? |
| 6 | That was one of the many occasions when we were sent for after supper and beaten by the Library . |
| 7 | One day I had one of the prototype JS1s ; it was an ash body and that did n't work out too well when we were looking for woods . |
| 8 | yeah , well I , Mike says I brought that one home when we were looking for a hall instead , but I said no I said it was one very similar , but he said we could n't have it because erm |
| 9 | But in this quarry now in when we were working for everybody was on the same bonus , you know they was they were all partners . |
| 10 | They tell y' stories about the past , y' know , the war , or when they were fightin' for food an' clothin' an houses . |
| 11 | Naturally most of the boys opted for ‘ the strip ’ and each time the innuendo was made the girls pretended it was terribly witty and original , If a little naughty , just as they did when they were asked for the twentieth time if perhaps they might be the prize . |
| 12 | With COSE being such a ‘ last orders ’ affair , they were n't given much time to consider it when they were asked for support , apparently by Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 13 | Her St Albans class included two sets of identical twins — Pat and Gill Smith brought Medau into the news when they were interviewed for television 's ‘ Tonight ’ programme in 1958 . |
| 14 | Seventy-two per cent of those who had previously worked were currently unemployed as a direct result of their heroin use : 17 were dismissed for continual lateness and/or absenteeism ; two were dismissed for theft from work to finance their habit ; two lost their jobs when they were imprisoned for burglary or possession of heroin ; one was dismissed after two years of illness related to his drug use ; and one went bankrupt trying to support his habit . |
| 15 | Some of the emparked herds of White Cattle claim a history of enclosure from the thirteenth century onwards , when they were confined for private sport and to decorate the landscape . |
| 16 | But the British authorities were unable to protect the Littlejohns when they were arrested for the robbery of £67,000 from a bank in Grafton Street , Dublin , in 1972 . |
| 17 | The bank had taken over the shares of the owners of the Art-B company when they were arrested for fraud in August 1991 [ see p. 38399 ] and was said to owe 6,000,000 million zlotys ( $430 million ) to the central bank ( NBP ) . |
| 18 | Referring to a comrade of her son 's , she wrote : ‘ This boy and mine were together all through the African war and only separated when they were preparing for France . |
| 19 | Blackpool Council were impressed with the smooth running and high speeds , when they were taken for a trial run on July 1st in 1898 . |