Example sentences of "[conj] [Wh adv] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside , the stove kept me warm while I cooked or whenever I made a mug of tea which was three or four times a night . |
| 2 | My brother never says negative things about my body , or how I look . |
| 3 | ‘ But I do n't regret what I did or how I reacted . |
| 4 | It was certainly overt in Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ) , with its surrealistic emphasis on machinery ( a Coke machine , a wheelchair , telephones , radios , computers , aeroplanes , bombs ) , culminating in the semi-mechanical yet sex-obsessed figure of Dr Strangelove ( Peter Sellers ) himself , whose rebellious mechanical arm keeps rising in a gesture at once phallic and fascist . |
| 5 | They could not understand where I had come from , or how I could possibly survive . |
| 6 | He does n't care what I say or how I feel — my feelings are meaningless to him — it 's the fact that he 's got me . |
| 7 | I just find it difficult to be interested in clothes or how I look . |
| 8 | If you can trust yourself to me in a cab we can travel back to Vetch Street in style , and if Matey is up try to think of an explanation that will not involve Rose , or men who trap young girls in alleys , or how I , fortunately for you , became separated from Stair and rescued you . |
| 9 | or how I liked two sugars in my tea , |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sorry about Billy , but I do n't see what it has to do with me or how I can help you . |
| 11 | Regardless of the circumstances , or how I felt , or how much I needed to tell you that I loved you ? ’ |
| 12 | Was it because I was out of reach of the prying eyes of the men in my family and their questions about my comings and goings , and far from my mother 's interrogations about why I slept on my stomach , or why I took so long in the bathroom ? |
| 13 | I do not remember now how or why I did so , because despite my infatuation I still sometimes thought Dana was a Franco spy , or from the FBI or the CIA or even the CID or the KGB . |
| 14 | ‘ Or why I was looking at them ? ’ |
| 15 | God knows where it 's from or why I 've got it , but I have |
| 16 | Near where you are and where where I am . |
| 17 | Oh he 's from erm Tokyo or wherever I do n't know . |
| 18 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 19 | I remember that whenever I had tuppence to spend I used to go there to buy one of the outdated paperbacks from the ‘ Popular Sports Library ’ on sale at half-price . |
| 20 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 21 | On the subject of home improvements , why is it that whenever I attempt to carry out a simple repair job at home it always seems to cause big problems ? |
| 22 | Despite minor lapses , I began to trust that whenever I wanted cash — whether to pay bills , attend workshops or take trips abroad — it would be available . |
| 23 | ‘ I feel irritated that whenever I make a suggestion you say ‘ Yes but ’ . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I was thinking that whenever I 've been into a student 's flat there was a different atmosphere … a lot of things pinned up on the walls , for instance posters mostly … ’ |
| 25 | But I 've noticed that whenever I 'm sideways on the Honda , Schwantz is sideways on the Suzuki . ’ |
| 26 | My knuckles and hands were a mass of windblown cuts and boils which meant that whenever I clenched my fists the gashes opened . |
| 27 | I find that whenever I notice some sentence in context , I immediately find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . |
| 28 | I mean , for instance , in my dreams er cars have taken on a very distinct personal symbolism that has really nothing to do with what you might think , because of personal experiences of mine , and I now know that whenever I dream about cars it always always has this but that 's because of something that happened to me and because of my personal erm kind of experiences , so cars have become a dream symbol . |
| 29 | Another thing that sticks in my gut big time is that whenever I mention I 'm a Leeds United fan , peoples first reaction is that ‘ Oh you were so lucky to win the league two years ago ’ . |
| 30 | WHY is it that whenever I decide to don salopettes and head off in search of that damned elusive substance — Scottish snow — howling hurricanes decide to renew my acquaintance and pea-soupers that would have done Victorian London proud descend on the mountain ? |