Example sentences of "[pron] when she [was/were] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But remember it was Mrs Thatcher , who when she was arguing against the er European Monetary System , said you ca n't buck the markets , and ultimately that is true , or at least more precisely , you can only buck them at a cost , you can only buck it by buying or selling pounds , which messes up your money supply , or raising or lowering your interest rates at a time when you might not be wanting to do so . |
| 2 | I know Mother would have liked it because she had some experience of one when she was living with Aunt Bessie , over in Stainmore . |
| 3 | Then Aunt Bessie had a stroke , more than one in fact , and burned herself rather badly , because she apparently suffered one when she was bending down to tend the fire . |
| 4 | This must be where Amelia shifted everything when she was having building done . |
| 5 | She hummed to herself when she was working and should you pass her when she was on her knees polishing the floor , or slapping dough on the board — she made bread for them all — she would come out with some remark that would either cause you to make a retort in similar vein or have you burst out laughing . |
| 6 | His wife , Martha Bernays , came from Hamburg , and Freud had met her when she was living in Vienna . |
| 7 | And I think it 's I said to her when she was cutting it , I said look you know one side 's longer than the other and er |
| 8 | We had been going on the idea that whoever killed her lunged at her when she was standing up : a thrust parallel to the ground . ’ |
| 9 | And they talked to her , most politely : the Martin man asked her when she was doing her Finals , and she told him , and he asked her what she was going to do then , and she said that she thought she would do a teacher 's training course . |
| 10 | Your father would n't let me go to her when she was dying , but he could n't come between us . |
| 11 | She hated anyone to watch her when she was going through the bins . |
| 12 | ‘ Course , I did n't see all that much of her when she were growin' up . |
| 13 | I says to her when she were leaving it , I says to her there 's people that swear and that . |
| 14 | Melissa pictured Sybil with her head cocked , the way she held it when she was listening to someone , gazing with exaggerated , wide-eyed intensity . |
| 15 | ‘ Kay found it when she was clearing up . |
| 16 | Mummy dropped it when she was giving it to me . |
| 17 | she got it when she was doing her A levels did n't she ? |