Example sentences of "when [pron] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When everyone is being encouraged to have their say and chipping in , you can only have decision-making by consensus and that takes a lot of time . |
| 2 | You do n't want a bit of sedimentation and then a gap when nothing was being laid down and then a bit more being sedimented , because , you know , you do n't know then whether the jumps you see in the record are simply there because there was a gap in deposition , or whether they really reflect the sudden change in the population . |
| 3 | When I am being helped into a bath of hot water , however , I draw in my breath and cry out for her : ‘ Mama ! |
| 4 | Absolutely nothing except on those rare occasions when I am being praised |
| 5 | And then i when I was was about the trout fishing in the loch here . |
| 6 | Er not really , the main source of income on the croft er when I was was er we keeping hens . |
| 7 | J. V. The police were n't popular around the Bogs in Garston , when I was being shown around there with Jim Bealey , when a brick came flying over . |
| 8 | But erm , there are one or two interesting exceptions to this , and one exception is myself , because er , I started analyzing myself through maybe to nineteen sixty nine , and with one or two small exceptions , like when I was being analyzed by and I did n't like it , with any doubt , my entire analysis was being written down . |
| 9 | ‘ I do my best work when I 'm being underestimated . ’ |
| 10 | When I 'm being beastly to him , he has such a way of looking sorry for himself that I begin to hate myself . |
| 11 | Why do I have to conform , to feel real only when I 'm being normal ? |
| 12 | ‘ We are obviously not there when someone is being tortured or killed . |
| 13 | You become a mug when you 're getting beaten up and not getting paid for it , when you 're being exploited , when you 're getting hurt . |
| 14 | But I do n't see why I should when you 're being so obstinate about this . |
| 15 | Brigadier , life is er hard enough in the Army when you 're being toughened up for the sort of rigours you have to face on the streets of Belfast for example |
| 16 | Well when you 're being paid for doing a job that 's the price you pay if you want to keep in work . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When you are being spat at for doing your best in difficult circumstances , it is hard not to become spiky and defensive . |
| 19 | That would be your English side coming out ; I rather prefer you when you are being Italian . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 22 | Did you find wh when you were being bullied or when other people were being physically intimidated that other soldiers would help them or would they just stand by and let it happen ? |
| 23 | I do n't know how I had the nerve to speak to you as I did — to turn you away when you were being so nice and so good . |
| 24 | Er they would n't have you as a bound apprentice because unfortunately , although the wages were so low when you was being an apprentice , three and six a year , then six and six year , and then er I think , thirteen shilling , the third year . |
| 25 | One policewoman said that , while the men disappear when a rape victim is brought in , they all want ‘ to gawp at the girl when she 's being examined and read her statement ’ ( FN 17/2/87 , p. 19 ) . |
| 26 | I 'm also sick to death of patronising DJ shits like Simon Bates saying that Sinead is ill and that when she is being nice , she is the loveliest person in the world . |
| 27 | She had her backstage duties to attend to , and when she was was n't in front of the footlights she was hunched over the book in the prompt corner . |
| 28 | When she was being important and rushing around she would push them up into her hair . |
| 29 | He had quite often , in the past , when she was being more than usually irritating , had fantasies about her death . |
| 30 | 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 . |