Example sentences of "when they be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | when they 're referring to the tractor or the horse or the car |
| 2 | Erm and and when they 're going to be back . |
| 3 | Sit down and they , they swear to me when they 're talking to me and what have you , you know , but we can go into them without appointments , you know , we can work them in between . |
| 4 | ‘ You can see it in their eyes when they 're talking to you . |
| 5 | I mean biologists , when they 're talking to one another , are , by and large , talking about Darwin and that 's what I 've been trying to do . |
| 6 | Both speakers and writers find this useful when they are referring to two things , one animate , one inanimate . |
| 7 | Although children become familiar with the terms used in the story and call out when they are listening to it , the ideas involved may not necessarily have been understood . |
| 8 | Look people straight in the eye when they are talking to you and check if what they say stays in your mind longer . |
| 9 | Well , even even people who perhaps are not so experienced in doing it in their personal lives can be influenced I think , especially when they are relating to children , to perhaps become more sensitive to that and the children in their care . |
| 10 | ‘ The public were placed in fear when they were expecting to be shopping peacefully . |
| 11 | The kind of social relationship which existed between certain teachers and this group of boys became very apparent when one examined the terms of reference used by the boys when they were referring to the teachers and themselves ; ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ . |
| 12 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |
| 13 | And they always travelled separately , even when they were going to the same function . |
| 14 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |
| 15 | Few people , I discovered , looked directly at a waiter 's eyes , even when they were talking to him . |
| 16 | when they were talking to her . |
| 17 | Oh , did you turn it on when they were talking to you ? |
| 18 | ‘ He had a knack of jumping on roundabouts just when they were coming to a dead stop . ’ |