Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] when [pron] [verb] that " 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 In her study My Mother My Self ( Fontana , £5.99 ) , psychologist Nancy Friday puts her finger on how I felt when she says that , at such a time , ‘ The new mother finds the need for her own mother increasing .
9 I thought when he died that nothing could ever hurt me so much — now I 'm not so sure .
10 But what would she do when she realized that , with things as they were , she was on a life sentence , not just a temporary suspension of essential pleasure ?
11 Caterina now faced the weeping Virgin determinedly and moved her lips as if praying ; she quailed when she realised that she would have to act the go-between again and seek him out alone once more .
12 She blushed when she realised that Sarah was trying to hide her surprise but her friend only said , ‘ I wonder will the caelidhe be on tonight ?
13 ‘ Did you mention when you wrote that he is in with some Cockney riff-raff ? ’
14 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 .
15 ‘ This is an exchange , not a rummage sale , ’ she said when she saw that Gloria had brought along no clothes to swap .
16 when she said when she said that what was new in the theory was false , and what was true was old .
17 We agreed when we separated that we would n't behave like this , ’ Loretta replied in aggrieved tones .
18 It expresses what we mean when we say that we have our reservations or vacillate about something .
19 That 's what we mean when we say that we make cookers for cooks .
20 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 .
21 That is what we mean when we say that the Labour party is advocating an envy tax .
22 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 .
23 But what is it that we believe when we believe that one thing caused another , that the second was the effect of the first ?
24 These figures were confirmed even more when we saw when we saw that we spent twenty five pound more a head of population on our schools than the average Metropolitan District .
25 Later reports from the IBM Corp annual meeting in Tampa , Florida on Monday stress the anger of shareholders that we forecast when we mentioned that the meeting was to be held in America 's retirement capital : ‘ IBM stock no longer provides for your old age , but it certainly hastens its arrival , ’ one irate shareholder told Louis Gerstner during the annual meeting ; some 2,300 shareholders , mostly elderly investors and current or former IBM employees , crowded into the Tampa Convention Center for the meeting .
26 Finally they relented when she argued that they were simply wasting their money .
27 ‘ No doubt there was some cross or ornament they found when they robbed that poor creature , and Adolph had made a fantasy out of it .
28 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 .
29 Yes , All do tour a lot and still manage to put out records regularly , but what does he mean when he says that they ‘ have just two songs : a fast one and a slightly slower one ’ ?
30 Yes , All do tour a lot and still manage to put out records regularly , but what does he mean when he says that they ‘ have just two songs : a fast one and a slightly slower one ’ ?
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