Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] when they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’ |
| 2 | The flowers that I had still been clutching when they carried me back to the house had been prised from my fingers and left in a plastic bag on top of the fridge . |
| 3 | Outside , the rain which had been falling when they entered the building seemed to have eased . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think they , or the likes of Norman Mailer and Budd Schulberg ever felt that they were slumming when they wrote for the sports pages , ’ says McIlvanney . |
| 5 | My boots and feet were smouldering when they found me . |
| 6 | That is the information on which the police were acting when they decided it was reasonable to take this action . |
| 7 | I 'm sure Adi Dassler and his brother Rudolph did n't know what they were starting when they began making sports shoes in Germany in the Twenties . |
| 8 | But I do n't re think they realize what they were doing when they started making that flower border round , it 's going to be a never ending job . |
| 9 | Father-of-two Steve said : ‘ I thought they were joking when they said I was not sufficiently disabled . ’ |
| 10 | Even if , for once , the Kings had not been bluffing when they drew up their armies , these men were reluctant to attack each other . |
| 11 | Well it was raining when they came . |
| 12 | ‘ The only way to find out would be to get the police to check it against the one he was wearing when they found him . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm wearing a blue prison-issue shirt — open-neck , of course — and the jeans I was wearing when they arrested me . |
| 14 | Dawn was breaking when they reached Camborne and Celia stirred a little . |
| 15 | Cos , Claire was saying when they went , they went , they 'd been to Wales , France , and Scotland while they 've been here he said , . |
| 16 | I was hoping when they got that link road through they might connect up , but I do n't suppose it , sort of roads got ta put parking towards the long piece of |
| 17 | Despite the lateness of the hour , the phone was ringing when they got in . |
| 18 | ‘ You mean , you think that 's where she was working when they met ? ’ |
| 19 | She was smiling when they reached her , apparently unconcerned by the blood . |
| 20 | There was clapping when they had finished , and mass progressed with us singing well . |