Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example of such a statement might be , " For me life simply has no meaning " , or , " Even when I am enjoying myself I often feel that I do n't belong " . |
| 2 | The answer seems to be — persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called into question . ’ |
| 3 | They sleep in the same room with each other , and look beautiful when I am putting them to bed , jumping and hopping about quite naked , rejoicing in the freedom of no clothes . |
| 4 | Neighbours and friends tell me that when I am racing you can hear the noise right down the street ; it is as if I am running in Dad 's front room ! |
| 5 | When I am departing she whispers ‘ Would you like to … ? ’ but I have always said ‘ no ’ . |
| 6 | I , I mean I went like this into dinner okay , and I suppose everyone was like what 's she doing in a skirt or whatever cos they were all like looking and then like half way when I was eating I could feel them all staring at me and laughing and Jim and that lot were laughing and I could see Charlie |
| 7 | When I was swimming I went to change and I found a swimming costume . |
| 8 | I got some insight into this when I was telling him about my readings in Zen , and trying to explain the principles of yin and yan . |
| 9 | And when I was throwing my rackets and talking to the umpire it was breaking my concentration . |
| 10 | There 's a few examples here , Mother Theresa was one that sprung sprang to my mind when I was thinking it through . |
| 11 | you know , even I say to Evelyn when I was watering I said |
| 12 | I was cold into the bargain , and when I was dropping my shorts , I overbalanced because of the painful shin , and soiled myself and my clothes with diarrhoea . |
| 13 | But when I was seeing him he offered to write me a check for five million pound , I said , I could n't take a check for five million pound because I was a to me . |
| 14 | Yeah you see but when I was seeing them one after the other tens and twenties you do n't see the dross you see |
| 15 | " When I was recuperating I naturally questioned . |
| 16 | I identified them all at Toronto station when I was allocating their sleeping quarters . |
| 17 | I started off by smoking it , but later when I was injectin' it , I found I got more of a hit , y'know what I mean . |
| 18 | You were here when I left , and then when I was passing I looked up and saw that your desk light was still on . |
| 19 | Two or three times I fell down when I was wearing it , that was outside in the market place . |
| 20 | Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you ! |
| 21 | on Friday , erm erm you did n't notice it be , when I was wearing it under yo , got you on tape , this one on Monday erm |
| 22 | No this sheet 's from ages ago I found it in me desk when I was tidying it and er I asked me teacher if it |
| 23 | They used to call them in in in on th , when I was collecting her |
| 24 | when I was expecting our John |
| 25 | ‘ But , darling , suppose I had done the same when I was expecting you ? |
| 26 | Yet when I was having my baby they made me feel as though I should n't be having it . |
| 27 | Well , er I asked this , because erm , when I was having my house it came up , and I and I pointed out to her th the astonishing anomaly , I said , look erm , everybody knows about manuscript , Ernest and his biography of Freud mentions it and says he read it and reports rather well of it , actually , was really quite impressed with it . |
| 28 | Mind you , my hair was a lot better when I was having it done . |
| 29 | When I was asking them which was their favourite area , not unsurprisingly a couple of them mentioned the Lake District — anytime except in the summer holidays . |
| 30 | The issue , as far as I can see , and I was told , when I was growing it up in school , about the holocaust and that we must ensure that everybody remembers about the holocaust in Germany , and that it should never ever be allowed to happen again . |