Example sentences of "what i [verb] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You see what I mean when I say it 's nothing new , it 's been endlessly talked around . |
| 3 | But you will no doubt also understand what I mean when I say it is not at all easy to define just what this quality is . |
| 4 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is what I mean when I talk of balance . |
| 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 | ‘ But I do n't know what I mean when I say that word . |
| 9 | And they , it was a bit frightening because we were in a group of seventeen and see what I mean when , I mean how it starts is like if were starting with me , I have to say I 'm Tony , right , and then you would say I 'm Jackie and this is Tony and then Christine would say I 'm Christine this is Jackie , this is Tony , I was at the end of a group of seventeen and I had heard it sort of , you hear it , it builds up round the room |
| 10 | It all reminded me of what I received when I dared to make some mild criticism of the habits of cyclists and for much the same reason . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's what I thought when I first came . ’ |
| 12 | Do you know what I thought when I heard that ? |
| 13 | As I said , that 's what I thought when I first met you . ’ |
| 14 | CATHERINE You know what I thought when you first came in ? |
| 15 | Well , that 's what I thought when I came round . |
| 16 | It 's right , but not what I thought when I started . ’ |
| 17 | That 's what I thought when I see her put her lights up . |
| 18 | That 's what I thought when that little boy , I mean he was lovely singing that |
| 19 | I tell you what I noticed when you first walked in you got you got thick eyeliner on , that 's what I noticed . |
| 20 | I ca n't remember much of what I wore when I arrived from Harehills in 1950 . |
| 21 | What I said when I left still holds good , George . |
| 22 | I , I morning , I , she get what I said when you get one , I went and got you one I said but it was one ninety nine . |
| 23 | And this is what I meant when I said circumstances outside the school over which we have no control , they have no control … |
| 24 | ‘ What I meant when I said you were an asset , Matt , is that you provide the sexual fillip which Cadogan 's would otherwise lack . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't put a meaning on them for other people , they must form their own ideas ; I know what I meant when I made them , but it may not be the same thing for other people . |
| 26 | But what I saw when we went to Spain in 1978 and I had a long , relaxed talk with James in the patio of our common hotel , actually frightened me . |
| 27 | ‘ I came because I liked what I saw when you passed me in the corridor back in Helsinki . |
| 28 | I mean , I have n't done a detailed survey on anything , but I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw when I went in there , and I must say , I went there expecting it to be no more than a garden hut . |
| 29 | If only that was what I felt when I looked in the mirror , instead of anxiety over these little springs of steel . |
| 30 | How can I tell you what I felt when I saw the body ? |