Example sentences of "when [pers pn] was [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You saved my life when I was dying on the hillside . ’ |
| 2 | When I was standing on a cold windy Kop watching us play shite against the likes of Plymouth Argyle , Shez always seemed to make it bearable . |
| 3 | Get your show biz shocks of the they caught me when I was standing on my head . |
| 4 | Erm we had gone down to , to , to Bognor to the christening of her , our nephew and she was n't too , th that was in November , it was sort of middle of November , and something was going wrong there and so when I , when I was retiring on the twenty seventh of November she could n't come in and er |
| 5 | ‘ This is great , Ilona , ’ he says , leaning forward , ‘ because when I was working on Wall Street trying to get someone to risk his money on cotton , I would say , ‘ Bob , how can you get hurt by cotton ? |
| 6 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |
| 7 | " It never occurred to me till yesterday , Mr Feather , when I was sitting on the seat and she smiled at me . |
| 8 | er better support and better advice for schools , but I agree entirely with what says , it 's no good having the best advice in the world if we ca n't deliver the er , er , the , the recommendations and one of the things that er has been borne in , on me , when I was sitting on the panel looking at special educational needs that the early identification of the early intervention when there are difficulties which start to arise in schools can save you a lot of money later on and unless the schools have the resources to er , er to meet with the er recommendations which are being made on particular children , then we are asking for trouble there , so that I 'm very concerned about the fact that er , the like , like the early one which was er increase that er provision . |
| 9 | The S.S.O. was crossing Casualty yard when I was going on duty that afternoon in a flaming temper . |
| 10 | Sebastian and I had shared a house when I was lecturing on Crime and Punishment . |
| 11 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
| 12 | I met him quite by chance when I was rambling on the shore . |
| 13 | One evening a girl jumped on me when I was lying on my bed in my cubicle . |
| 14 | She made all sorts of things in there and Endill would hear bangs and thumps all day long when she was working on something special . |
| 15 | " When she was lying on her thin pallet at night she screwed her eyes up tight and then she could see his face . |
| 16 | When she was missing on the set , she could always be found in the stars ' dressing-rooms . |
| 17 | Then there was the rime when she was going on holiday with a schoolfriend and the friend 's parents . |
| 18 | Gradually you saw this self-absorbed monarch stripped down of all his trappings , until a wonderful scene when he was kneeling on the ground staring at his reflection , and suddenly he shattered the mirror against his foreheard . |
| 19 | It helped enormously that he also happened to enjoy affairs with women , and that when he was acting on stage , his sexual proclivities were not such a problem as he was less in the public eye . |
| 20 | But he mentioned in an essay the degree to which certain forms of anaemia were conducive to such creation ; and , in our conversation that day , he described how , when he was working on The Waste Land in Switzerland in 1921 ( ‘ by the waters of Leman ’ ) , he felt at one moment that his brain was going to burst . |
| 21 | The England vice-captain was later hit by a stone thrown from the crowd when he was fielding on the boundary |
| 22 | One day he saw them both through the window of a hotel bar when he was sitting on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 23 | When he was starting on a case he used his car as little as possible . |