Example sentences of "[verb] when [pron] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never have a spoken signal ; you ca n't speak when you are being throttled and , by the time that your partner has realized that you are in difficulty , it may be too late to revive you . |
| 2 | The incident which will stick for ever in the minds of those who witnessed it came when she was being ushered into the main entrance of Yorkshire Television . |
| 3 | Just like purring , smiling can occur when we are being reassuring , submissive , non-hostile , and appeasing , as well as when we are blissfully happy . |
| 4 | ‘ So do I. I liked the way she muttered so you could hardly hear when she was being funny . |
| 5 | Even the thought of sharing a bed with him did n't seem so threatening when he was being kind . |
| 6 | The eyes of the Cobra are hauntingly black and hypnotic ; the snake is beautiful to watch when it is being worked by a skilled charmer . |
| 7 | It is also shocking because it confronts us with her body , an old woman 's body with cancer , only touched when it is being cut or hit . |
| 8 | Remove rude jokes and deliberate sexual innuendos , and also watch out for unintended double entendres which might make inebriated members of the audience laugh when you are being serious and sincere . |
| 9 | It is a medical fact that the body is at its lowest ebb between three and six in the morning and the ability to react , the ability to think when one is being woken up in the early hours of the morning erm are a consideration that we take into account when we have to mount an operation inside a premises . |
| 10 | Which was a very good thing and what children of today miss when they 're being whisked on a bus to school . |
| 11 | He had no idea what any of it was about but who was he to complain when he was being paid so well ? |
| 12 | The way a poet 's mind works when he is being most a poet may be taken as the model of the process that operates as democracy in the political field and as education in the psychological field … |