Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government introduced the community charge legislation as a result of total panic about what was happening in Scotland when revaluation came before us again . |
| 2 | In a sense his experience supports his theory , but also mocks it , for the ability to perceive what is happening in London when you are in Oxford is not true spiritual knowledge . |
| 3 | Clarkson felt compelled to see just what was happening in Berlin when the celebrations began . |
| 4 | Questions which it is worth keeping in mind when reading the remaining chapters in this book would be the following : |
| 5 | Robertson had just returned from holidaying in India when Major proposed his Kurdish safe havens policy to a meeting of EC leaders . |
| 6 | Beatrix Potter was holidaying in Gloucester when she learned of a local legend about a tailor called John Pritchard … who returned to work on a Monday morning to find an unfinished coat mysteriously completed over the weekend . |
| 7 | She was shuddering in distaste when Travis came in carrying an armful of kindling , which he tossed down by the fire . |
| 8 | One has only to read recent editions of Climber and Hill Walker to see evidence of atrocious behaviour by climbers and walkers : abuse , noise , breaking down fences , fouling areas with litter and excrement and climbing in areas when specifically requested to desist for good safety reasons — at Cheddar and Upper Pentrwyn . |
| 9 | The proposal was given the green light in a post-Tiananmen panic by people who will probably be living in Hampshire when , and if , the airport is built . |
| 10 | The question that the Government must answer is whether , if they were to maintain their stand-back attitude and what they call their options , British investors — not simply inward investors — who want to sell their produce throughout the Community and the rest of Europe would give priority to investing and developing in Britain when they had every reason to believe that the Government were ever ready to withdraw from the European process . |
| 11 | Letters of recommendation were often requested by those about to sail for India or another overseas possession , and such letters were even sought by those already serving in India when they appreciated that the interest of a man of influence would accelerate their own advancement . |
| 12 | He had been serving in Cairo when my father was born , and afterwards the family came to live in England , as my grandfather was posted to the Military Academy at Sandhurst as an instructor . |
| 13 | He had been serving in France when he met her , they had married as soon as the Hun had been finished off , and after the honeymoon it had been back to the colours for him and straight over to Ireland . |
| 14 | Mid-Ulster MP , the Rev William McCrea , job seeking in America when last night 's Magherafelt devastation occurred , accused the IRA of engaging in ‘ a massive sectarian bombing campaign directed at Protestant towns and businesses ’ . |
| 15 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 16 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |
| 17 | This strand dependence is a completely reproducible phenomena , with all 9 adjacent guanine residues resulting in transcriptional blockages when on the template strand , and none resulting in blockages when on the non-template strand ( Figure 5 ) . |
| 18 | But she was lacking in self-confidence when she should have had lots . |
| 19 | I agree they SEEMED to be lacking in ideas when in posession sometimes , especially when the 2 centre backs had the ball , or Batty was bringing it out . |
| 20 | He 's something of a hermit by nature and imagined he could cope with it all by himself , apart from getting in labour when necessary . ’ |
| 21 | I had letters which started , ‘ We were travelling up the motorway from London to Glasgow and I heard you … ’ or ‘ I live in Devon but I was staying in Leicester when I heard you . |
| 22 | The Ayatollah was teaching in Qom when he was arrested in 1963 after condemning a raid on the college by the Shah 's security forces . |
| 23 | Many chemicals employed in industry have little therapeutic usefulness but may produce poisoning in man when they are used . |
| 24 | GARY Huntingdon , the Lib-Dem 's man in Sedgefield , had just arrived for a spot of canvassing in Chilton when he spotted four attractive women and two young children walking down the street . |
| 25 | The impulse previously contained or harnessed in the work setting becomes dangerous and inhibiting in bed when there is no alternative outlet . |
| 26 | Well nobody 's really saying in case when any of us sign it , we must sign excluding the written work |
| 27 | ‘ Is that what she was doing in London when she told him she was in Wales with her sick mother ? ’ |
| 28 | Diplomatic negotiations were still continuing in Washington when , without declaring war , Japanese forces attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands on 7 December 1941 . |
| 29 | ‘ I left the States and was travelling in Italy when I met a photographer . |
| 30 | buzzing in ears when I go to bed at night . |