Example sentences of "meant when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt exhausted : as I dragged myself up the stairs I can remember thinking that now I knew what people meant when they said they were ‘ tired to death ’ . |
| 2 | But it was what they meant when they said ‘ Unified Unix . ’ |
| 3 | But it was what they meant when they said ‘ Unified Unix . ’ |
| 4 | No I meant when it goes up you need little things now and again . |
| 5 | Bissell 's eyes never left Rohmer as he spoke , and Rohmer knew what the thing meant when it said it would n't talk to Gilbert anymore . |
| 6 | What had St John meant when he said that the Word was ‘ with God ’ ? |
| 7 | This is what Paul meant when he said : ‘ I count all things but loss , for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord . ’ |
| 8 | She , skilled in the ways of therapy , had after the first few sessions begun dissecting his own motives for him and Kevin , like an obedient dog , ended up nodding slowly as she told him clearly , fully , frankly what he meant when he said what he thought about what she or Henry felt , and how what he thought he thought about what they felt , or said they felt , probably was n't what he really felt any more than what they said they felt was really deep down what they really felt . |
| 9 | He returned on 16 September , telling Tom Jones that he now knew what Roosevelt meant when he said he felt like a ‘ bull moose ’ . |
| 10 | Soon I discovered what Mr Rochester meant when he said he had done wrong . |
| 11 | This is probably what Braque meant when he said later , ‘ nous étions surtout trés concentrés ’ . |
| 12 | Darlington 's Liberal Democrat candidate Peter Bergg asked Mr Fallon to clarify what he meant when he said schools in County Durham were a ‘ dismal ’ choice for parents . |
| 13 | And that 's not what Paul meant when he said the body of a what ! |
| 14 | These ‘ social capital ’ arguments may have been what Titmuss meant when he argued that major wars increase governmental concern for women and children , and produce social policies to protect them . |
| 15 | The poem is remarkable for its Gothic horrors and its energy , for example : This is not a ‘ Wordsworthian ’ view of Nature , but it helps to explain what the poet meant when he told us in The Prelude that he was haunted by mysterious ‘ presences ’ during childhood and youth ; The Vale of Esthwaite anticipates The Prelude in other ways — the interest is in the mind of the poet , and the effect of the imagination on landscape . |
| 16 | ‘ You know this would n't be what your uncle meant when he wrote his will . |
| 17 | It is , indeed , part of what he meant when he claimed to adhere to science as a Weltanschuung , as distinct from a religious creed . |
| 18 | We can understand what Oakeshott meant when he stated that ‘ Hobbes is not an absolutist precisely because he is an authoritarian ’ . |
| 19 | Who cared what Anpetuwi meant when she had three tables to clear , four people waving at her , and a growing list of drinks to remember when she got back to the bar ? |
| 20 | He did n't understand what Miss Thorne meant when she told him to keep a gesture . |
| 21 | In many ways Kylie grew up with us on Neighbours so everyone understood what it meant when she left . |
| 22 | This is what a girl in Borstal meant when she said to me , ‘ I gave him everything I had but it was n't enough ’ . |
| 23 | It 's what my friend working in prostitution meant when she said she lost her self-respect when her husband was attracted to her colleague whom she saw as inferior to herself . |
| 24 | Mm , no I meant when you 've dec once you 've , you know painted in there and got your carpet down |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose this is what you meant when you told me there was something wrong , and rushed off . |
| 26 | Mr Smith asked : ‘ Can you explain what you meant when you said you were in a minority in Lady Thatcher 's administration ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've given much thought to what you meant when you said those things — to what you really want , and — ’ |
| 28 | He meant when you hear voices and there are n't any . |
| 29 | I did n't mean that I meant when you look at a tree it 's sort of got |
| 30 | COUNSEL : Turning now to another part of the same statement , although you do not know the magnitude of the forces , perhaps you can tell the Court what you meant when you used the words " from time to time " ? |