Example sentences of "[adv] [Wh adv] [pron] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do bits together whenever we get the chance and ( someday ) will do a brand new one . |
| 2 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
| 3 | Secondly , the relationships between the private sector and the voluntary sector , and lastly how we measure the success of these special relationships . |
| 4 | So how we handle the foal is certainly going to make a difference between whether the mature horse will be friendly or not , and in my experience , horses that have not been well handled as foals are never as friendly , trusting , and confident as those who have . |
| 5 | Right okay , whether they understand yes so how you get the contact with them , yes . |
| 6 | It was only when we left the tavern that we heard about the King . ’ |
| 7 | It was only when they reached the bar and addressed the barmaid that Loretta began to take notice . |
| 8 | It was only when they reached the turning to Sansepolcro that he felt something hard underneath his foot . |
| 9 | It was only when they saw the picture on the cover of a magazine — on their 38th wedding anniversary — that they realised their kiss had been captured forever . |
| 10 | It was only when they found the man who had taken the car back that the shop manager told him . |
| 11 | It was only when I heard the crowd roar I knew it was in , ’ he said . |
| 12 | It was only when I dissected the heart , this afternoon , that its significance struck me . |
| 13 | It is only when you take the courage to look at yourself and your life — without judgement , without prejudice — that you can decide to make it a new life . |
| 14 | It was only when you blasted the centre out that you actually |
| 15 | It is only when you test the possibility of buying , the price and delivery , and the actual consequences , that you realize that you have constrained your thinking unnecessarily . |
| 16 | It was only when she reached the bedroom that Shannon realised she 'd forgotten to take her coffee with her . |
| 17 | It seemed that Maidstone , who had been completely sober at ten o'clock when he left the bar , returned at about midday , still sober , but immediately started drinking heavily . |
| 18 | It was barely four o'clock when he entered the hut of the Ngo brothers and he waddled threateningly down the canter of the earth floor towards them , shining his flashlight right and left , looking for any excuse to employ his cane . |
| 19 | The Whig and Tory groupings had come into existence over a particular crisis , and although that crisis was not about just one issue — Exclusion — it was the case that the parties polarised over how they thought the crisis could be resolved . |
| 20 | In some respects , I think it was the detail of the ethnographic ‘ thick description ’ which most alarmed them ; for as almost all of them wistfully pointed out : ‘ it shows exactly how we do the business ’ . |
| 21 | Once you 've read it a couple of times and confirmed in your own mind exactly how you want the system to operate , it 's surprisingly easy to get it up and running , and once you have , you 've got a quite capable mini-network to play with . |
| 22 | This is a very common occurrence when someone who is a good subject experiences past-life regression , although they — and , indeed , I — find it difficult to explain just how they know the regression was real . |
| 23 | I remember my father giving me specific advice on just how he climbed the crux section of the corner crack above ; ‘ When you get to the steep bit — you 'll know it when you get there — just face right and use the square cut holds on the edge . |
| 24 | Quite apart from introducing the problem of just how you get the document to the bureau in the first place ( we know of people who have extra hard disks for just this purpose ) the time it takes to run such a document through an imagesetter can be significant in the extreme . |
| 25 | Though her motivation is irrelevant in the sense that it matters not why she took the decision she did , I find that the reason for her refusal of a blood transfusion arises because it is contrary to the beliefs of the Jehovah 's Witnesses . |
| 26 | And they were still lying yesterday when they denied the charge . |
| 27 | However , we were received promptly and courteously by the Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities yesterday when we explained the situation to him . |
| 28 | THE Duchess of York staged a royal coup yesterday when she ousted the King of Sweden as number one VIP at a top ski resort . |
| 29 | THE LONG and winding road that Jo Durie 's career has followed over the past 10 years , took another nasty twist yesterday when she missed the chance to keep Britain in the Federation Cup . |
| 30 | GEOFFREY BOYCOTT 'S credibility as a member of Yorkshire 's general committee was dented further yesterday when he left the emergency meeting an hour before the end , writes Derek Hodgson . |