Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] when [pron] [vb base] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er yes that , that is important because qu I mean when you feel that people are sympathetic |
| 2 | I mean when you consider that the cost of those chickens |
| 3 | That is what I mean when I say that the problems of crofting , and other rural problems , are in an odd , but very real sense , a national resource . |
| 4 | I 'm sure you 'll understand what I mean when I say that a reader in , for example , Moscow would find your book very difficult to relate to . |
| 5 | It is in my body qua sensitive that sensations occur ; and the occurrence of a sensation in some part of my body qua sensitive is all that I mean when I say that I feel a sensation in some part of my body . |
| 6 | One man in particular er again I wo n't mention his name but anybody that went to Road School 'll know who I , I mean when I say that if you did anything wrong he 'd call you out and ask you something and if you , if you like pupils used to be a bit shy and , and not speak to him he 'd slap you across the face . |
| 7 | I think that the hon. Gentleman will know what I mean when I say that in the context of coming towards the end of a particular available time , whether it is the time for talks or the time for a general election , there is reluctance among certain parties — and I make this remark generally — to turn their cards face upwards if there is any danger that other people will not have turned their cards face upwards by the time the whistle blows . |
| 8 | ‘ I train hard , I hurt when I train and my motto is : because I hurt so much somebody has to pay . |
| 9 | You curse when they fail and when you bring what you feel is the perfect bloom against others you still fail |
| 10 | ‘ There used to be totters , ’ said Billy O'Rourke , With big smelly horses and that And my dad knew gypsies who smile when they talk And live by the tip of the hat . ’ |
| 11 | The second impression is less tangible — the curious feeling you get when you realize that those books on the shelves are Manzoni 's books , the ones he read or consulted . |
| 12 | It expresses what we mean when we say that we have our reservations or vacillate about something . |
| 13 | That 's what we mean when we say that we make cookers for cooks . |
| 14 | This example demonstrates what we mean when we say that choices are never totally ‘ free ’ but are influenced in complex ways by the socialisation process and by practical constraints . |
| 15 | That is what we mean when we say that the Labour party is advocating an envy tax . |
| 16 | When we say when we say that that we stage door club is closed it closed in the place it 's not open every evening but we do actually let it out we let it out to companies and whatever conference or companies who want a facility or meeting place something we do actually market that and we do actually ask people if they want to use it and in fact it has been taken up there . |
| 17 | But what is it that we believe when we believe that one thing caused another , that the second was the effect of the first ? |
| 18 | Since dictionaries also contain information about the orthography ( i.e. spelling ) , phonology ( i.e. pronunciation ) and semantics ( i.e. meaning ) of words , terms such as ‘ mental dictionary ’ , ‘ internal lexicon ’ or ‘ mental lexicon ’ have been used to refer to the internalised system of knowledge we use when we perceive or produce words . |
| 19 | Erm y'know that that sort of thing when they when they y'know when they might be , when they feel when they feel that some some other bloke 's making an approach to them , when they feel that er y'know erm somebody finds them attractive , when they think that some other bloke has made a pass at them or something like that y'know they sort of react in a hostile way but y'know there 's that suspicion that mm er y'know kind of er it 's because they 're insecure about their masculinity , it 's because they feel threatened or something like that . |
| 20 | They are very good though , they come when they say and they , they d they do something about it |
| 21 | It gloats when we win and goes in the huff when we lose . |
| 22 | What happens when we sleep or are unconscious ? |
| 23 | What happens when you try and get below that ? |
| 24 | You 'll guess what happened when I say that I am now commanding the Company — and in the line I had a seraphic boy-lance-corporal as my sergeant-major . |
| 25 | ‘ Abstraction ’ should help us to move when we wish and to settle in the best camping places . |