Example sentences of "[v-ing] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was still praying when he got in the water . |
| 2 | Let's look at what is happening when we use these two options in a little exercise . |
| 3 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 4 | Mellor 1980a ) that consciousness dawned : in particular , consciousness of what was happening when one communicated . |
| 5 | And the things is , they always laugh , they 're always laughing when they get on the train |
| 6 | ‘ A lot of people fell around the place laughing when they heard about the middle-aged poet bit , ’ he says . |
| 7 | There 's lots of talking and laughing when they do that — they look like they 've had a real good time . |
| 8 | We were still laughing when we took more food out to the others . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , I nearly choked laughing when I heard you were doing a breakfast show . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't notice you laughing when I have to go away for the night . |
| 11 | She were laughing when I showed her that letter I got , cos she got one the same morning , , she said , and it said , and you can go round and talk to him . |
| 12 | Harry Burrows rode round his house on Midsummer Eve in a white sheet pretending to be a ghost , we nearly died laughing when he told us — ’ |
| 13 | No wonder he was laughing when he left court . |
| 14 | He was laughing when he said it . |
| 15 | Astrid was laughing when she came running up , coat and scarf flying , shopping bags like gibsails billowing , her pretty mouth with little teeth making her seem to shine all over . |
| 16 | Gedanken was still laughing when she got back to Uncle Albert 's study , having been beamed down . |
| 17 | He presented the music box , which was received with every expression of pleasure by Isobel , and the monkey to Dorothy , who could not help laughing when she saw it , because it was so typical of a craze for stuffed animals amongst the girls she had met in Tollemarche . |
| 18 | Now when you pick a paw pear before prickling when you pick a pawpaw for a prickly pear and you pick the wrong pear next time beware ! |
| 19 | We 're also very good at sulking when we fall out . |
| 20 | You should regard the summer months as out of bounds , since there are too many people about , and there is the risk of dry grass dying when you recover finds . |
| 21 | ‘ Did you know your father was dying when you left Johannesburg ? ’ |
| 22 | It is sad that Orwell should have been bedridden and dying when he met Waugh , for the first and last time . |
| 23 | CHARLES REALLY THOUGHT he was dying when he woke up the next morning . |
| 24 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
| 25 | He had not paid enough attention to Anna , he had not even seen the girl , and yet she was the only one to benefit obviously and directly from her father dying when he did . |
| 26 | Liverpool inevitably became the centre for disputes about rate-capping for excessive expenditure , and then for surcharging when it tried to defy the government over expenditure cuts . |
| 27 | He leaned against it , staring across at the priory wall , shuddering when he remembered how Gaveston 's dogs had nearly tore him to pieces . |
| 28 | He was almost cracking when she said : " I ca n't do any business unless he comes . |
| 29 | My boots and feet were smouldering when they found me . |
| 30 | Derek Polson , a CCG storeman at KG Ethylene Offsite stores , showed he knows all there is to know about fork lift driving when he scored a perfect 100 per cent in his driving test — the first time a driver has achieved the maximum score at Hargreaves Training in Glasgow . |