Example sentences of "be [v-ing] when he [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stone referred to here is clearly a symbol of God rather than an embodiment of God , but at the same time it has an element of sacredness , which is what Gandhi may be implying when he maintains that God resides in the stone in a special way . |
| 2 | I notice that a great many people were nodding when he suggested that , possibly including the hon. Lady , who should not be so argumentative because I am agreeing with him . |
| 3 | Another aspect of this extravagance is the large amount of unanalysable recorded data ; this is presumably the point Labov is making when he remarks that the ( technical ) quality of participant-observation data is often poor ( 1981 : 4 ) . |
| 4 | Donald McIntyre ( 1970 ) illustrates what is missing when he suggests that the ‘ result ’ of a pupil 's mathematics exam , instead of 40 per cent , might be recorded as a ‘ diagnostic profile ’ thus : |
| 5 | Hakluyt was exaggerating when he said that Englishmen had excelled all the nations and people of the earth in their explorations , but he was quite right when he asked : |