Example sentences of "when i was [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I probably , I probably knelt on it when I was getting the computer . |
| 2 | And then , when I was taking the exhibition down , a couple of women helped me and they said , ‘ Why are you so angry , dear ? ’ |
| 3 | It was so good , this telescope , we had , when I was watching the pheasants , in the field , I used to be there all day for the the carrion crows would come along do you see . |
| 4 | I remember , when I was writing the biography of George Sand , I read in all her biographies that her grandmother had married a certain Comte de Horne , an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; that the marriage had not been consummated and that the Comte de Horne had been killed in a duel . |
| 5 | When I was considering the applications from Foresterhill and others , I made it clear that I would not approve an application unless I was personally persuaded that the criteria would be met . |
| 6 | One more ‘ accident ’ that happened when I was using the Brother cast-off linker . |
| 7 | And then when I was reading the text really carefully , I came to the conclusion that that 's not really what Jesus is saying . |
| 8 | thought about it when I was reading the property thing it might be er while I 'm in Leo 's |
| 9 | Yeah that 's , when I was reading the thing I said to you somehow the upstairs seemed much better . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw him when I was leaving the market . |
| 11 | I just like , I just like , I know places , like I was told when I was meeting the girls yesterday , I did n't know what road I was going on I was just telling like , people names of the pubs and luckily this , like , bloke behind me getting on the bus , said oh you need a like , a seventy P or something and that 's when I knew where I was going and everyone 's like telling me where to get off , everyone gestures to me . |
| 12 | Once I had a rather nerve-racking experience with him when I was working the horse rake in the lower field . |
| 13 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 14 | Life became so stressful that when I was making The Power Game the doctor put me on Mogadon and I became hooked for a while . |
| 15 | I saw it when I was doing the breakfasts . |
| 16 | It was through school generally and school teachers in particular that his interest was aroused and : ‘ When I was approaching the time to leave school , my interest was in athletics ; I either wanted to join the army as a PE instructor or I thought about taking a course in physical education . ’ |
| 17 | Erm , I erm , employ people , so I decided to have an employment section , six months later when I was reviewing the daytimer , I discovered that I had one sheet in my employment section , er , about a lady I had interviewed and not employed , whereas I had a prospect section that was overflowing , and needed drastic sub-division . |
| 18 | Cos I said to young George , his son , I said he came when I was painting the sills and I says what do you do when it 's frosty when you start to work ? |
| 19 | When I was putting the orange juice bottle back into the wheelbarrow , an empty plastic bag was blown out of the locker and soared towards Morocco , like a racing pigeon from a basket . |
| 20 | She 'd be very antagonistic when I was putting the jesses on , so the first thing she would do when I picked her up was pull at her feet and try to work herself loose . |
| 21 | There was erm what I thought was a , a white Rolls parked outside our house when I was putting the washing on the line just after you went to work . |
| 22 | ‘ I found him , when I was walking the course , ’ I said apprehensively . |
| 23 | I only mentioned it when I was walking the dogs . |
| 24 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 25 | Teague admitted : ‘ When I was pounding the hills alone I thought my England days were over . |
| 26 | As for safety , well I did have one fairly close encounter when I was visiting the ladies toilet in the basement of the hotel . |
| 27 | Nests I found when I was clearing the garden , put the little eggs in and they 'd all gone cold . |
| 28 | When I was researching the history of the Shropshire parish of Myddle I was able to trace some of the farming families back beyond the beginning of the parish register by using lists of manorial court jurors dating from 1528 . |