Example sentences of "when i be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I am trying to be stricter than usual with myself , I plan a really busy week so that I am out more than is customary . |
| 2 | ‘ And he went to the degree of saying , when I pressed him , how are we going to stay in this business ; he said , Albert , for all I know right now when I am talking to you , we could be finished with the business ; I do n't know . ’ |
| 3 | An when I am talking to meself in poetry I talk , |
| 4 | Did you get that bit erm , when I was speaking to you about how everybody hates you and stuff ? |
| 5 | ‘ When I was coming to Peru , that 's what someone said : ‘ The jungle 's drugs , the mountains are terrorists and the coast 's robbers . ' ’ |
| 6 | Peter : Why did you go backwards when I was coming to you ? |
| 7 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |
| 8 | You brought me a hare to eat when I was starving to death . ’ |
| 9 | Even when I was going to school I was doing gigs , and when I finished with school I was doing gigs , and when I finished with school I realised that I was able to get by with just the gigs . |
| 10 | Well when i was a wee boy the loch had never looked it before the barriers was built When I was going to school Well I was born I started a co school at nineteen eighteen . |
| 11 | When I was going to school . |
| 12 | I got to , when I was going to the little school I got told the little ones . |
| 13 | Erm Mi Michelle when I was going to the bank . |
| 14 | It had seemed quite clear when I was talking to Aunt Kit . |
| 15 | When I was talking to Eric anything seemed possible . |
| 16 | ‘ I glimpsed you out of the corner of my eye when I was talking to the porter . ’ |
| 17 | With a broad smile , he explained , ‘ When I was talking to him the other day , and I happened to mention that an old friend of my sister 's was coming to Ireland , and that I was going to show her round Dublin , and that we 'd agreed to meet here , and about how scatty … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ When I was talking to him , he had this habit of looking over my head and I wondered whether what I was saying was going in , but he was digesting it and seeing how he could turn it round to his way of doing things . |
| 19 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 20 | And when I was talking to her she said , oh well you should give her something , but not to send her to sleep and make her drowsy . |
| 21 | No , it 's , when I was talking to these |
| 22 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 23 | What did you say to me on he phone when I was talking to Tracey ? |
| 24 | When I was talking to him I asked him what changes he saw taking place in the computing world . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , when I 'm listening to the drummer I 'm listening much more to the bass drum than I did before , because that 's what I have to play with . ’ |
| 26 | I can smell it when I 'm listening to it ! |
| 27 | ‘ And please take that towel off your head and have the goodness to look at me when I 'm speaking to you ! ’ |
| 28 | Anyway , Jules , it would be silly to form attachments here in Paris when I 'm going to be living in London . ’ |
| 29 | Oh Serlison High , I cut through there going to , when I 'm going to work . |
| 30 | When I 'm walking to the shop I think a bit about moving and that . |