Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because it looks more proper when I am looking after a patient . ’ |
| 2 | Yet , at best , this is unreliable , as when I am thinking of your beautiful wife while discussing with you the state of the nation . |
| 3 | When I am fishing on my own I only weigh them straight away if they appear to be over 9lb , and leave the weighing until I pack in if they appear to be less . |
| 4 | When I am trying to be stricter than usual with myself , I plan a really busy week so that I am out more than is customary . |
| 5 | For instance , when I am sitting on this chair , how do you want me to appear ? etc. , etc . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When I am shaving in the morning I say to myself that if I were a young man I would emigrate . |
| 7 | ‘ And he went to the degree of saying , when I pressed him , how are we going to stay in this business ; he said , Albert , for all I know right now when I am talking to you , we could be finished with the business ; I do n't know . ’ |
| 8 | An when I am talking to meself in poetry I talk , |
| 9 | The words probably , likely and unlikely litter the text , even when I am talking about what is widely regarded as fact . |
| 10 | When I am lying with him , and he is inside me — that is the moment I know for sure . ’ |
| 11 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
| 12 | Did you get that bit erm , when I was speaking to you about how everybody hates you and stuff ? |
| 13 | I met Dr Johannsen , the senior therapist at the local hospital , when I was hunting for wood on the beach at Cator . |
| 14 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 15 | When I was writing in this magazine [ October 1987 ] about the troubles of the Flow Country in Sutherland ( christened then ‘ Britain 's Last Wilderness ’ ) , I suggested that the concept tends to devalue ‘ the presence of humans in remote areas and overvalue their contribution elsewhere . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ When I was staying with your sainted mother in Siena , small hotel in Via dei Cappuccini , and we were just leaving , I handed a postcard to the hall porter to stamp and send to England . |
| 17 | ‘ He was working in the gardens at the château when I was staying in France , and I discovered he was English . |
| 18 | Cos when I was telling about my music she said well you have n't got a video in that room , I said well no not yet I have n't . |
| 19 | I went to see The Wild One many many years ago when I was thinking about becoming an actor and thinking maybe it was a bit of a poofy thing to do , and Marlon Brando was standing in front of this juke box and he had ‘ New York Rebels ’ on the back of his leather jacket and this girl came up and said , ‘ What are you rebelling against , Johnny ? ’ and he says ‘ What have you got ? ’ and I thought , ‘ Yeah , that 's my man , I 'll do that . ’ |
| 20 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 21 | Speaking of luck , there 's a colt I want to buy not far from Lexington — came up for sale just when I was thinking of getting in some new blood . |
| 22 | That 's your football one is n't it ? that one 's free now , your thinking of vice versa were n't we ? , when I was thinking of big , yeah |
| 23 | When I was thinking of doing . |
| 24 | There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w |
| 25 | I mean you look at , see I I 've had , I felt like when I was coughing at work I felt like sitting there and I thought I ca n't believe this . |
| 26 | ‘ I played for their club when I was touring in Germany , and they volunteered to come over and help us whenever they could . |
| 27 | I was gon na say about sex education that when I was learning at school , it 's also very male dominated erm it was , I mean you were talking about erm what 's i li , the differences between males and females learning about sex education and wha , and we were learnt about the the man having pleasure , we were taught about the man having the erection and the man having the orgasm , I mean , we did n't even know what a clitoris was ! |
| 28 | When I was looking for data to check out these observations , I found plenty of examples — and where ? |
| 29 | I actually first realised this at the second year , that when I was looking for the , the previous year , I noticed that in July the business went and I thought , because everybody 's gone on holiday . |
| 30 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |