Example sentences of "when [pron] is [not/n't] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's OK , ’ said Henry , ‘ you can fill up on choc bars and then pretend to eat it and when she is n't looking I 'll sling it in the bin . ’ |
| 2 | She now spends half her time working in the Comic Relief office in New Oxford Street , London , when she is not doing her ‘ telly stuff . ’ |
| 3 | When it is not wind it is rain , |
| 4 | When it is not expelled it seems to backfill so the tubes get coated in thick white mucus . |
| 5 | They live in perpetual hope of persuading some head of chambers to take them in when a vacancy occurs ; meanwhile , to confer with a client they can only occupy someone else 's desk , by his good grace , when he is not using it . |
| 6 | This became the first in a long line of medieval whodunnits featuring an unusual detective , a 12th-century Benedictine monk named Brother Cadfael : when he is n't tending his herb garden , Cadfael is using his knowledge to solve a seemingly endless series of murders and mysterious disappearances . |