Example sentences of "what it [verb] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intrigued , Mungo was about to ask his uncle what it meant when Stanley said : |
| 2 | In many ways Kylie grew up with us on Neighbours so everyone understood what it meant when she left . |
| 3 | Not Diddy Paint , it 's a and he goes ready calcu and he 's showing off he goes right , I 'll show you what it does when he put on the calculator and it |
| 4 | I 'm going to look at what happens to helium at low temperatures , and in particular I 'm going to see what it does when it 's stuck onto carbon , which it will do very readily . |
| 5 | The treatment of anaemia is more concerned with the uptake of the co-ential vitamin than what it does when it gets to it 's site of action . |
| 6 | That 's what it says when it does n't know and does n't want to admit it . |
| 7 | No major EC country has ever been refused what it wanted when it declared that a vital national interest was at stake . |
| 8 | World View : So close yet still far apart : Timothy Garton Ash reflects on what it means when Germans start behaving like Poles , and Poles like Germans |
| 9 | Anyway , you 'll know what it means when you see it . |
| 10 | Like me , you 'll begin to see what it means when you get a bit further on . |
| 11 | In this respect considerable reliance was placed upon Lord Diplock 's dictum in Gill and Duffus SA v Berger and Co Inc [ 1984 ] AC 382 : … while " description " itself is an ordinary English word , the Act contains no definition of what it means when it speaks in that section of a contract for the sale of goods being a sale " by description " . |
| 12 | It is , so what it means when it 's lost is , it is not able to fulfil the function for which it was made . |
| 13 | At first the Appeal seemed to have failed utterly and some drily observed that perhaps we too would now learn what it means when the well runs dry . |
| 14 | For instance , they do n't understand , as she quotes in her book , what somebody is doing when they 're reading a newspaper , or what it means when the postman looks at a envelope . |
| 15 | For instance , they do n't understand , as she quotes in her book , what somebody is doing when they 're reading a newspaper , or what it means when the postman looks at a envelope . |
| 16 | The news is that heterosexuals had become infected with H I V , the virus that leads to AIDS , ten to fifteen years ago , and that the numbers were doubling ten to fifteen years ago , that 's what it means when we hear AIDS cases , and what that must mean for today , is horrifying . |
| 17 | Throughout the tours rugby enjoyed this elevated profile but , overblown and sometimes fanatical as this media coverage might have appeared to outsiders , nothing in South Africa is quite what it seems when you peer beneath the surface . |
| 18 | Slowing down , the equivalent gravity pulls the opposite way to what it did when speeding up . |
| 19 | How the poor fellow finally got his report together I do not know but I doubt that even he did n't realise that he was dealing with a supernatural force that did what it liked when it liked . |