Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Whenever she had arrived before , with her mother , or on her way to stay with relatives and school friends , it had been full of innocent bustle presaging lunch at Marshall and Snelgroves and tea at Fortnums . |
| 32 | Whenever she had allowed thoughts of sharing a bed with Fen to enter her mind , just the imagining had racked her body with sensuous shivers . |
| 33 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 34 | ‘ Promises ! ’ she exclaimed on a loving laugh , and thereafter put herself out to be the epitome of all she thought he would most dislike in a woman , shyly calling him darling whenever she had the chance . |
| 35 | Whenever she thought of Fergus Wolff , this empty battlefield was what she saw . |
| 36 | Whenever she thought of James Halden a shameful wave of physical longing washed over her until she remembered he had used her and discarded her . |
| 37 | Ruth 's conscience was troubled over Dick : not because of what they had done together — that had been wonderful and whenever she thought about it her body ached , her breasts tingled with longing to experience it again — but because she now knew , had known it from the day after he had brought her home , that he was not the man she wanted to marry . |
| 38 | All the way home , she practised the words she would speak to Craig Grenfell , she must tell him to leave , to find another place to stay but the feeling of emptiness that swept over her whenever she thought of saying goodbye to him brought tears brimming to her eyes . |
| 39 | Clare , who blushed with shame whenever she thought about it , waited anxiously for the result of her tests at St Stephen 's Hospital . |
| 40 | Flinging over in bed for the hundredth time , she tried to ignore the subtle , spreading ache in her stomach whenever she thought about Roman 's last hungrily demanding kiss … |
| 41 | A warm glow of pride settled itself whenever she thought about it — her own business ; she just wished her parents were still alive to witness it , and Mark , of course … |
| 42 | She brushed away the dullness that settled itself on her whenever she thought too hard about his death , about the way he had chosen to live parts of his life , the worries that had been there within her , deep below the surface , and forced herself to concentrate on finding the right numbered exit to this magnificent part of Gloucestershire . |
| 43 | This wild , hectic , almost shocking excitement … a bitter-sweet , desperate longing that seemed to turn her limbs to water whenever she thought about Ross ? |
| 44 | Whenever she speaks of those days , it is with fondness and a smile . |
| 45 | But whenever she passed the wood the tales rushed back into her mind and made her blood run cold . |
| 46 | So why , then , does her depression return whenever she ventures away-from home for more than a few hours ? |
| 47 | Whenever she rode out with Jenkins , he always called to her what they were about to do , whether they were going to trot , or canter , jump or gallop . |
| 48 | She would pretend to be busy whenever she heard Moran come . |
| 49 | Sometimes the slaps and punches were for real now , and my mother would cry up the stairs in alarm whenever she heard a sudden thump as I fell on the floor or bumped into the furniture . |
| 50 | She made herself even more unpopular by bursting into tears whenever she heard music , ‘ with great sobbings and sighings after the bliss of Heaven ’ . |
| 51 | Now she listened eagerly for the word , and felt a twinge of disappointment whenever she heard ‘ dear ’ or ‘ Clare ’ instead , fearing that he had fallen out of love since the last ‘ darling ’ . |
| 52 | Whenever she fell off the vélo she sat where she was , nodding , fumed with wine and drowsy with heat , in a classical furrow , under a pale , bright sky . |
| 53 | ‘ And so , my children , ’ she said , dominating the staff room as inevitably she dominated whenever she chose , ‘ so we all troop along an hour early , as commanded by the Great God Crumwallis , to usher the parents from their Daimlers and along to the glittering scene awaiting them in the Crumwallis quarters . |
| 54 | Oddly , though he could never bear to be out of her sight and cried whenever she left him , as soon as his eldest sister , the faithful Cis , got him to her own home he ceased to cry . |
| 55 | Kramarae and Treichler quote Rebecca West 's witty remark , that she is n't sure what a feminist is , she only knows men call her that whenever she does or says anything that differentiates her from a doormat . |
| 56 | Child has a tantrum whenever she does not get her own way . |
| 57 | But the effect she has whenever she does meet her devotees is startling . |
| 58 | That she should just forget about her lessons and rush off to see your brother whenever she pleased ? |
| 59 | Pete was in her form at school and whenever she looked at him little quivers she could not identify started deep inside her . |
| 60 | She looked on her body as an enemy , and groaned whenever she looked in a mirror . |