Example sentences of "when [pers pn] 's [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , yes When I have , have been entertaining Shirley and Terry , doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday , sometimes both to help Shirley when she 's getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts is lemon meringue pie |
| 2 | Tracey is also being shown in advance how she can help herself when she 's recovering from the operation . |
| 3 | She even talks about ‘ the lower orders ’ when she 's referring to her servants . |
| 4 | I think Moira 's a very shrewd operator when she 's looking at paintings , and I find it very useful indeed . |
| 5 | And then you drop it in on Iris when she 's looking after |
| 6 | And when she 's curled on my honoured knee , |
| 7 | The bashful , wounded virginity , such coy shrinking to inflame the passions even more — as I know to my cost — and then , when she 's finished with you , rejection . |
| 8 | When she 's crying with pain for something like a migraine headache , I just sit in the dark with her and hold her hand . |
| 9 | But she 's secretly ambivalent about her friends and an open breach looms when she 's drawn to charismatic outsider J.D. who seduces her into an apparently humorous plan of attack . |
| 10 | She 's ringing me on Wednesday to tell me when she 's gon na collect them . |
| 11 | ‘ If I enter the room when she 's talking to Carrie or my ma , she 'll simply dry up and say nothing until I 've left . |
| 12 | Mrs mentions that when she 's talking about sophisticated London |
| 13 | ‘ However , if you 're not sure when she 's going to be back … ’ |
| 14 | Well we counted twenty and then we were laughing so much we thought oh we 'd better stop her you know twenty sort of goes from one side to the side when she 's lying on her stomach . |
| 15 | True , you can offer advice when it 's asked for but no-one really wants advice — particularly if it 's 20 years out-of-date . |
| 16 | I think that when it 's expressed in terms of the kind of real conditions of child sexual abuse and rape and sexual harassment and domestic violence and getting paid half the amount of money that men get paid and not having any reproductive rights and sterilisation abuse — these really basic issues that feminism has addressed . |
| 17 | It reads the Touch key when it 's placed on the sensor and uses it as an encryption key to decode data as it 's read and to encode it as it 's written . |
| 18 | This so-called ‘ one law for all ’ means one thing when it 's applied to gorgios and something else when Romanies are involved . |
| 19 | The size of one and a half football pitches when it 's completed in November next year it will have not only space but air conditioning , an education room and laboratory for the conservationists . |
| 20 | Ingleborough 's steep sides always manage to give the impression that the top of the hill has been sliced off ; when it 's cloaked in a mist cap , you can almost imagine a cone-shaped summit . |
| 21 | We believe a cup of coffee leaves a nicer taste in your mouth when it 's given to you by name . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's something terribly … decadent about lazing in the Caribbean when it 's raining in England , ’ she murmured . |
| 23 | No fire can burn without the oxygen air provides , and air can only rise to great heights when it 's warmed by fire . |
| 24 | Maybe it 's the most important thing I do but I think that when it 's elevated in the way we were talking about sexuality being elevated , it 's done a disservice . |
| 25 | David has a theory that the crop grows better when it 's exposed to music . |
| 26 | This is alright but it does tend to bunch up a lot when it 's pulled in close to the face . |
| 27 | So when it 's added to harmful substances , it makes them unpalatable . |
| 28 | He folded her into his arms ; she could feel the tension singing inside him , as iron sings when it 's brought to a white heat . |
| 29 | What about if T goes on for about erm one second , when it 's going to be equal to V M one minus E to the minus one . |
| 30 | erm And I 'm very much looking forward to that , on Wednesday I 'm coming and we 're having a promotions day when we 'll let everyone know what we 're doing ; when it 's going to be , where it 's going to be held , and erm give two hundred youngsters the opportunity to try erm the various sports , we do n't just do football now either , we do lots of other sports . |