Example sentences of "when it [is] [not/n't] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tap tap tap all bloody day long , when it 's not singing or falling off its perch . |
| 2 | It 's just there to take the edge off things when it 's not settling on it 's own . |
| 3 | As Tom MacQueen himself once told me , banks will always lend you an umbrella , when it 's not raining . |
| 4 | Constant rain , and when it 's not raining it looks as if it 's about to . |
| 5 | It 's not only a working instrument but the kind of guitar that you feel like picking up and playing at any time ; when it 's not wowing the punters it will probably spend its time lying on the sofa permanently on call . |
| 6 | when it 's not changing . |
| 7 | Jackline in the , you have to do something with the comb when it 's not showing so you 've , what 's happened to the white ? |
| 8 | At times it 's a joy when it 's not happening ! |
| 9 | This prevents a permanently installed generator from being charged by the battery when it is not creating an output itself . |
| 10 | The real criticism of Mr Pound is not to be directed against his theory as such , but rather at the hasty headlong fashion in which he presents it , at the logical confusion of his intellect when it is not performing the task which is specifically his own , that task being poetry . |
| 11 | Grey white chewing gum matter presents itself spasmodically at her mean Glasgow lips , alternating with her cigarette which is sucked when it is not rolling druggedly about on top of her ticket-issuing machine or charging up and down , and off , the long seat , dropping its fire and ash amongst the plastic cups and other less white rubbish , further propelled by chewed and muttered whinings about the discordant duet of erratic driving bus man and undone Corporation road holes . |