Example sentences of "that when [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We suppose that when somebody says something to us , it is meant to be informative , has some warrant in fact and is not a deliberate obfuscation or falsehood ( for further detail and discussion see Grice 1975 ; Levinson 1983 ; Sperber and Wilson 1986 ) . |
| 2 | He almost had me going , but my Rule of Life No. 14 is that when somebody offers you the chance of a lifetime , they usually mean theirs , not yours . |
| 3 | Its use emphasised that when we write we do n't mean to state that X equals X+4 — it ca n't be , but rather " let X become equal to what it was plus 4 . " |
| 4 | ‘ I think we all realized that when we met him , ’ Kolchinsky said , glancing at Whitlock . |
| 5 | We knew in 1985 that when we made our preliminary announcement of our results for the previous financial year that we would become technically insolvent . |
| 6 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 7 | Then it is likely that when we recover we will not slip back again into that same pit . ’ |
| 8 | But let us assume that when we question him he proves not to have overlooked such dangers . |
| 9 | It may be that when we express our opinions , we only have available to us ready-made sets of ideas , ‘ discourses ’ , other people 's words which we choose from , string together in different ways and think ( mistakenly ) to be our own ; these include ‘ expert ’ ideas and the colloquial , common-sense versions of them absorbed by ordinary people in one way or another . |
| 10 | The joy of the Christian is that when we express our sorrow and our anxiety we shall receive God 's peace and we shall receive God 's joy . |
| 11 | And I I hope that when we bring our initiatives to you next month , you will see how we are addressing that . |
| 12 | You will understand that when we knew what we were coming into we made some discreet enquiries . |
| 13 | How we stumbled on this was that when we grew some of these algae at Plymouth with our colleagues there , we found that when we grew them at one temperature then these two molecules were present in a certain ratio but when we changed the water temperature then the er ratio changed . |
| 14 | The position is that when we admit anyone to nursing home care , they can only be admitted if there is a joint assessment partly by a social worker from this department , partly by either the nurse or G P , or consultant , and the , the key element needless to say in that , in terms of need , is very much the health authority input . |
| 15 | As far as Falstaff is concerned , leaving prose for verse is a true rite de passage for Hal , so that when we see him together with Poins in the sequel speaking prose without Falstaff present ( 2 Henry IV , II.ii. ) we realize that his metamorphosis is not yet complete . |
| 16 | I have to admit that when we started we were convinced that , like everybody else , we took a risk by investing in the tournament . |
| 17 | ‘ We will obviously monitor everything that goes on over the next 12 months ’ , he says ‘ We can only hope that when we do our assessments of need we can support that need with the finances we 've been given . |
| 18 | For example if you 've got between thirteen and twenty for an activist that 's a very strong preference , however for a reflector a very strong preference is eighteen to twenty , because by nature most of us tend , you know most of us tend to stand back and think so what we actually need , what we wh what we can see is that when we compare our scores against the general norms it 's a much more accurate picture of our learning style . |
| 19 | So that when we galloped them they did n't know , see , mm , years ago they were very particular an another man did n't li , say I had horses and you had horses , I would n't like my horses galloping with yours . |
| 20 | In our society we would normally not interpret a phrase like that wrongly , because everyday usage confirms that when we say someone is an ass we mean they have been rather stupid . |
| 21 | This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet . |
| 22 | Another reason for rejecting this causal theory of meaning is that when one asks what is meant by a statement one is normally concerned to know what a reasonable speaker is saying in uttering it . |
| 23 | Seto explained quite seriously that when one admired something in a friend 's house it customarily became his . |
| 24 | So that when one entered one would find the pictures talking to each other and you would enter and listen . |
| 25 | you know er some of them they did a five piece jigsaw easter egg things that when they take them and an envelope to send them off to put it in , so when they take it home and fit it together it says happy easter . |
| 26 | If they 'd have known that when they got they got out , |
| 27 | I thought that when they took my trousers off I would have a zip mark on the old fellow . |
| 28 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 29 | King Francis became so rotten that when they took his corpse to St Denis they had to put it in a lead coffin . |
| 30 | Why else do we ensure that when they retire they receive subsistence-level pensions ? |