Example sentences of "of [noun sg] when [pron] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vice-principal of a teachers ' university probably spoke on behalf of many party members in positions of responsibility when he said that some young comrades lacked the ‘ backbone of Marxism-Leninism ’ , especially those studying liberal arts subjects . |
| 2 | I 'm only half joking of course when I say that by comparison the rip-offs and the scams and the scandals mean nothing . |
| 3 | I 'm in a bit of difficulty when you say what sort of weight because w we need to have some sort of scale I think but |
| 4 | Braque himself has best described his new method of work when he said , ‘ the fragmentation ( of objects ) enabled me to establish space and movement within space , and I was unable to introduce the object until I had created the space . ’ |
| 5 | He delighted the Faculty , which represents all modes of transport when he said : ‘ We do not believe the road system comes before everything ’ . |
| 6 | I am not talking with the benefit of hindsight when I say his success has not surprised me . |
| 7 | After all these years she still could n't resist a feeling of pride when she said that to a total stranger . |
| 8 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 9 | But a moment later there was the faintest note of trepidation when he said , ‘ But who will tell Barbara ? |
| 10 | I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care . |
| 11 | We talk later on , sort of thing when I say do nothing , you 're going to do something in that bit , but as far as you 're concerned it 's idle time . |
| 12 | He smiled in a benevolent sort of way when he said this . |