Example sentences of "mean when [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ye 'll see what Ah mean when ye get to the bathroom . |
| 2 | and remembered , I mean when we went to the , get the meat , we were near the shop , we 'd only just got to go down |
| 3 | Perhaps it is , perhaps it is not ; our ignorance shows that what we mean when we speak of personal identity is continuity of consciousness , not of substance . |
| 4 | To discover the impressive contemporary relevance of such imperatives , we need to establish what we mean when we speak of covetousness , and what is envisaged in the Bible by the idea of coveting . |
| 5 | From their written works it would appear that most psychologists up to about 1935 have assumed that these three things , separately or together , must constitute the whole of what we mean when we speak of a person feeling a touch as a touch on his shoulder or a pain as a pain in his foot . |
| 6 | We were looking for a precise way to express what we mean when we refer to something as complicated . |
| 7 | Which is what we mean when we talk of true harmony . |
| 8 | ‘ So you can see , Commander Talbot , what we mean when we talk about the greatest good of the greatest number . |
| 9 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 10 | To , to Angie you know , I mean a , were alright , we 've got plenty of local issues , but I mean when we think of the , the big issues , these are the big issues that need to be looked into . |
| 11 | I mean when they gon na |
| 12 | Given such disagreement , in trying to convey some sense of what psychiatrists mean when they talk of ‘ schizophrenia ’ it is probably more informative to consider the range of symptoms that might be found across a group of individuals who have received that diagnosis . |
| 13 | They are what people usually mean when they talk of innovation , though not all innovations based on knowledge are important . |
| 14 | I 'm pretty sure that by this stage I was suffering from what medical people mean when they talk about ‘ clinical depression ’ . |
| 15 | But I , I mean when it comes to times tables that sort of thing I 've never been sorry I learnt those . |
| 16 | You know but I mean when it comes to a screw and your , I mean we 're talking about coming like this to undo the screw . |
| 17 | over subscribed courses as well , I mean when I went on the language and , and the national curriculum and that other thing that I did on the national curriculum , masses of people there . |
| 18 | But whereas when you were talking about it then I mean when I think about it |
| 19 | I mean when I think of all the money that was poured into my education and nobody ever mentioned the kind of decisions one would have to make in the future and the problems you would have in trying to make use both of your education and have children and have the happy family life that our society encourages you to have and that we all perhaps want . |
| 20 | Well this is where Michael is a he would rather , I mean when I say to him can I just do some work on you calc I say , no , cos you are not doing any work , the calculator 's doing the work . |
| 21 | This is what I mean when I talk of balance . |
| 22 | I mean when I started with a shop in Harlow what , erm , nearly twenty five |
| 23 | Would you when you go to the loo , I mean when you go to the your room , wash that mug out cos it 's got a bit of soup in it . |
| 24 | This was t I mean when you think about it er it was good fun and er eventually people realized what was happening and of course they knew what was happening but that went on for a long long time . |
| 25 | I know , I mean when you think about it , what is it you 'll have , a tape deck , amplifier , oh you have |
| 26 | And I mean it is your sort of second home , and the guys that you work with every every week , I mean sort of become , I mean it 's a bit of a cliche to say , but I mean part of a family that you living out there that you live with out there and it is a real I mean when you think of the number that was lost , I mean there were a lot of close friends involved in it . |
| 27 | I mean when you think of those |
| 28 | I mean when you think of erm the way that , say , Mrs. Currie has been portrayed , Mrs. Thatcher indeed , I think an awful lot of that was filtered through the eyes of the press . |
| 29 | I have n't though , cos , I mean when he gets to those he 's not a normal twenty two year old , he 's way beyond oh yeah , twenty two , but |