Example sentences of "they [vb base] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that is mostly not what they mean when they use the word stress . |
| 2 | I see what they mean when they say the Mediterranean countries have never missed out on a female god . |
| 3 | Well what they mean when they say a half of a quarter is that we had a a quarter and we 've shared it out between the two of it so we 've got half to that each . |
| 4 | Right when you know what the terms are what people are talking about what they mean when they say petrol engine or a diesel engine . |
| 5 | Let them watch television if they want when they want free of charge . |
| 6 | The countries and warlords involved do what they want when they want ; and UN soldiers continue to be killed for nothing . |
| 7 | One teacher who gives teenagers what they want when it comes to sex talk is headmaster Michael Marland , a leading author and authority on sex education in schools . |
| 8 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 9 | Then they cry when you leave for the airport . |
| 10 | No but when they say when they say i it 's twenty twenty below , it 's twenty below that zero there , see there 's ten |
| 11 | The Ingards of this world live on the savings of elderly clerks and retired schoolmasters — and then get helped out by respectable banks because of the suffering they cause when they crash . |
| 12 | Would have they put when they put the boiler in cos the boiler w we 've had in three years . |
| 13 | Everything , the railings you know , when they put when they painted the railings , the burned the old paint off , the new paint on . |
| 14 | Everything , the railings you know , when they put when they painted the railings , the burned the old paint off , the new paint on . |
| 15 | I do n't suppose they wash when they go in do they ? |
| 16 | They do n't take them under a shilling a week , and God knows what they charge when they live in . |
| 17 | No-one would believe they had a recession on in Japan when they have time and resources to devote to dreaming up and creating things like this : Toshiba Corp has just launched a line of word processors with sound effects — ‘ to introduce an element of fun in the workplace ’ according to Reuter — they bark when you write ‘ dog ’ , moo when you write ‘ cow ’ and make the sound of pouring when you write ‘ beer ’ , and if you recall a text file word-by-word at reading speed , they repeat these and 26 other pre-programmed noises , from sleigh bells to sirens , as the words come up — and it no doubt laughs like a drain when your boss sends it an electronic message telling you you 're fired for being a disruptive influence . |
| 18 | He says they have 2 kinds of bite : a ’ go away ’ bite and the bite they give when they think you 're food . |
| 19 | It 's said to last for days even this great high that they get when they jump off and leap off these bridges or something on a bit of elastic . |
| 20 | Order materials so they arrive when you need them . |
| 21 | At a time in their lives when self-image is intricately interwoven with feelings about sexuality and identity , young women talk about how they feel when they look in the mirror , and what they feel from the inside , looking out . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Well , they give , I , I do n't know , it 's the way they feel when you put them on , they sort of hold themselves up a bit better and |
| 24 | I think he was conscious of a great deal probably , but at the same time many writers will tell you that they find when they 've finished a poem or a play things in it , demonstrably in it , systematically and intelligently present with real relations , which they do n't remember writing . |
| 25 | I think he was conscious of a great deal probably , but at the same time , many writers will tell you , that they find when they 've finished a poem or a play , things in it , demonstrably in it , systematically and intelligently present with real relations , which they do n't remember writing . |
| 26 | But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying . |
| 27 | And they actually say what they do when they get there . |
| 28 | They do when they came in , and they want the stall made like this , and they would say , you know , well you know , I 'm paying you to finish that off , you know , how , your next , your next priority to do is this , and they eventually told me what they wanted , and you know , you get on with it . |
| 29 | I 've brought a doll to show you if you 'd like to see what they do when they rotate babies ' hips , would you all like to see that ? |
| 30 | Well I mean I suppose they do when they do something stupid . |