Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] when he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DeVore might have been lying when he said he had no motive in helping her , but he was right about Mach wanting her dead . |
| 2 | Where had he been going when he left her ? |
| 3 | It was of films like these that the exhibitor Sidney Bernstein may have been speaking when he said : |
| 4 | The stone referred to here is clearly a symbol of God rather than an embodiment of God , but at the same time it has an element of sacredness , which is what Gandhi may be implying when he maintains that God resides in the stone in a special way . |
| 5 | You must prod him with coloured pencils , or tell him he must be joking when he makes heavy weather of something that another author does neatly . |
| 6 | He 'll still be playing when he goes under , he 'll be rattling his coffin to get out … or not out , that would suit him |
| 7 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 8 | The oval area from where Simon Cormack had been standing when he died to the point where he stopped rolling , at the heart of the larger circle , was treated with especial care . |
| 9 | I notice that a great many people were nodding when he suggested that , possibly including the hon. Lady , who should not be so argumentative because I am agreeing with him . |
| 10 | ‘ I gave him another extension number in case we were talking when he rang . |
| 11 | This is what Thomas S. Szasz is implying when he writes about ‘ definition ’ : ‘ In the animal kingdom , the rule is eat or be eaten ; in the human kingdom , define or be defined . |
| 12 | Maybe not everything … but he 's lying when he says the Darkfall has passed . |
| 13 | In fact this is what Socrates is going when he 's asked , well what do you want us to do with your body , he said you can do what you like , I wo n't be in it anyway . |
| 14 | what , what Sottle is doing when he comes in on the scene ? |
| 15 | What a voter is saying when he gives his first-preference vote to a particular candidate of a particular party is , " I want this candidate , of this party , to be elected " . |
| 16 | He 's coming when he finishes work at about six . ’ |
| 17 | Another aspect of this extravagance is the large amount of unanalysable recorded data ; this is presumably the point Labov is making when he remarks that the ( technical ) quality of participant-observation data is often poor ( 1981 : 4 ) . |
| 18 | Donald McIntyre ( 1970 ) illustrates what is missing when he suggests that the ‘ result ’ of a pupil 's mathematics exam , instead of 40 per cent , might be recorded as a ‘ diagnostic profile ’ thus : |
| 19 | ‘ Your father will think he is dreaming when he sees you ! ’ |
| 20 | No wonder he was laughing when he left court . |
| 21 | He was laughing when he said it . |
| 22 | CHARLES REALLY THOUGHT he was dying when he woke up the next morning . |
| 23 | ABOVE The Domgasse , Vienna , where Mozart was living when he wrote Figaro . |
| 24 | William Empson has commented , " I find it a completely achieved poem ; probably Coleridge was lying when he told the story of the person from Porlock , nearly twenty years later … " |
| 25 | He was lying when he said he 'd checked the house . |
| 26 | She reckoned this was what he was wearing when he left home Friday evening . ’ |
| 27 | In one case , which has still to come to trial , it is not clear which hat the salesman was wearing when he made his deals : his own or the life company 's . |
| 28 | WHATEVER Chris Boardman was riding when he won Olympic gold in the cycling pursuit , it certainly was n't a bike . |
| 29 | Party Politics , known as an equine giant in racing circles because of his massive size , was cruising when he took it up four fences from home , and winning jockey Carl Llewellyn later admitted that his chief concern at that stage had been striking the front too early . |
| 30 | CAMERON Mackintosh knew what was coming when he opened Five Guys Named Moe on Broadway last week . |