Example sentences of "i [verb] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked when they 'd gone . |
| 2 | In November , I wrote to him pointing that the formal period for consultation was ending and I asked when we might hear his response to the Green Paper . |
| 3 | I asked when we were munching again . |
| 4 | I glowed when they gave me their expert c , pinion that I was in most respects ‘ a normal young man ’ . |
| 5 | One of the earliest jottings I made when I began to keep a crime-writing notebook concerned just this business of plot . |
| 6 | Not like the covenant which I made when I took them by the hand To bring them out of the land of Egypt — my covenant which they broke Although I was a husband to them , says the Lord . |
| 7 | That was the point I made when responding to the intervention of the hon. Member for Swansea , East , when I mentioned section 12(1) of the Theft Act 1968 . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ A contact I made when I was in Croatia got in touch to tell me about the efforts of the villagers of Sumet , which is between Split and Mostar . |
| 9 | and erm I , I fainted when someone tried to take blood from me |
| 10 | I REPEAT WHen i likE . |
| 11 | i REpeat when i liKe . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You see what I mean when I say it 's nothing new , it 's been endlessly talked around . |
| 14 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 15 | But you will no doubt also understand what I mean when I say it is not at all easy to define just what this quality is . |
| 16 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Similarly , if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ Someone else is in pain ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same by ‘ pain ’ when I say someone else is in pain as I mean when I say ‘ I 'm in pain ’ . ’ |
| 20 | This is what I mean when I talk of balance . |
| 21 | I mean when he was born they laid him on me , he 'd had the cord round his neck three times and he looked like a tortoise with his long neck and this little tiny head [ laughs ] . |
| 22 | I mean when you 're looking for seventy thousand pounds savings you can only do two things . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But I mean when you think how long it was taking us taking a blank one of , and I know the |
| 25 | I mean when they when they do the sats |
| 26 | I mean when he does his window displays you 've never seen anything like it , you know , so , I think he 's got quite er , he 's quite good at things like that , but erm , we 've tamed down a bit now . |
| 27 | But I was talking to a Prof up there the other day , the actual A level , do you know , it 's pathetic really , I mean when you 're talking about law degrees you want about threes A's at A and now even accepting C's A , A level C's for engineering itself ! |
| 28 | I mean when they gon na |
| 29 | It just says it 's aqueous but but I mean when it when it when it happens |
| 30 | 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 . |