Example sentences of "when it [is] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below-the-collarbone lengths tend to drag your face down when it 's already suffering from the effects of gravity . |
| 2 | ‘ When it 's really flaming away and it 's the wood burning and not the Paraffin , then you put the lid back on loose , It may be that you 've over-filled , which is fine . |
| 3 | Those who already sail have an exciting time trying to stay upright when it 's really blowing . |
| 4 | Those who already sail have an exciting time trying to stay upright when it 's really blowing . |
| 5 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 6 | But it 's alright just you know knowing about that , but when it 's actually going to happen to you , it 's something totally different . |
| 7 | We talked about how fast you can make a 1.1 MkII Escort run when it 's only firing on three cylinders and how to make it run on three cylinders when it wants to run on just two . |
| 8 | ‘ We both know what we can do for each other , so why all this frantic resistance , when it 's obviously fraying your nerves ? |
| 9 | Except when it is actually feeding ( it eats bacteria ) , the paramoecium is in constant motion , frequently bumping into obstacles in its path and , when it does so , reversing by switching the beat of the cilia on one side . |