Example sentences of "when [pron] said the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I said the book under review covers everything , I mean it . |
| 2 | I cou I fel felt I could m when you said the name it struck me very forcibly . |
| 3 | When you said the uniforms were , in what way ? |
| 4 | I stood behind her and , when she said the word , helped her to heave the load from the ground . |
| 5 | She was n't aware of how her voice softened when she said the word ‘ Mother ’ , although she did know that the precepts of morality and etiquette that she remembered her mother spelling out to her were the ones she kept most assiduously . |
| 6 | He smiled at her when she said the word ‘ child ’ and held out his hand . |
| 7 | when it said the bottles had stuck to the blood on the carpet ? |
| 8 | He was right when he said the question I would have to answer most was ‘ When do we reach so and so ? ’ … and if I were a regular waiter he said I would know the answers , even though we 're thirty-five minutes earlier everywhere than the regular Canadian . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Bush sounded almost smug when he said the changes in Eastern Europe had come ‘ because America is strong and 40 years of perseverance and patience are finally paying off ’ . |
| 10 | Officially it is for ‘ consultations ’ but the usual reliable sources say it follows a series of death threats by white bigots who were displeased when he said the South African-controlled Koevoet paramilitary forces were ‘ on a turkey shoot ’ against Swapo guerrillas . |
| 11 | And that 's not what Paul meant when he said the body of a what ! |
| 12 | African-Americans in South Central mostly hate Korean store owners and there 's no getting around the fact , as Jesse Jackson tried to do when he said the assaults on Koreans were not racist . |
| 13 | LAST week on a bus I saw a young mother spank her little boy when he said the F-word . |
| 14 | Bigwig had been right when he said the line was fresh . |