Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Much of his study of the often shameful encounter between the conquerors and the native Indians was hazy to me now , but the clean lines of the narrative still reverberated within me whenever I saw an Inca ashlar .
2 It was in those days , then , prompted by my natural admiration for the lady , that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment .
3 Serves me right , but it always serves as a reminder too , whenever I fish a new swim .
4 Remember also that whenever you use a commercial record in a production you must get the permission of the appropriate record label , and this will incur a separate fee to them .
5 Follow the manufacturer 's instructions whenever you use a special cleaning product .
6 Draw your figure as often as you can , whenever you have a spare moment , making him or her a part of your everyday life .
7 Draw your figure as often as you can , whenever you have a spare moment , making him or her a part of your everyday life .
8 You can pick the work up and do a bit of it whenever you have a few minutes to spare and the final result is really splendid , whether it is all bejewelled and decorated or made in a simple plain yarn .
9 Whenever you have a few moments , just ‘ flash ’ this image inside your head , feeling your desire .
10 Always re bear in mind , that whenever you do a short answer question , right , you 've only got fifteen minutes to do it in .
11 The style is now available whenever you start a new document with the normal template .
12 Look , in particular , to using a running shot whenever you face a two-tier green and have to get the ball onto the top layer .
13 The rule of thumb is that , whenever you choose a next node , the one you choose has as large a value f(N) as possible .
14 They met whenever she had a free evening and he had a free evening , and it was n't often .
15 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 .
16 Whenever she found a knotted muscle she would say , ‘ Here we have a coconut ’ , and then pound the spot into insensibility .
17 Whenever we suffer a major loss in our lives — such as the death of a loved one , divorce , redundancy , miscarriage , children leaving home , or the end of a love affair — we need to go through a period of mourning .
18 This same attitude can also be seen in the exasperating , but typical , response that we received whenever we questioned a third party 's motives for doing something : ‘ Oh , sara ’ li kaa' ’ — roughly : ‘ Oh , it 's his business . ’
19 One experienced constable explained the process as follows : ‘ Like , whenever we get a new constable in this station , they are guided along by the rest of the men .
20 Our change of practice in no longer regarding previous decisions of this House as absolutely binding does not mean that whenever we think a previous decision was wrong we should reverse it .
21 It is always endangered and turns up whenever we discuss a private Bill .
22 See most people had good intentions , whenever they got a whole lot of stuff from the Cooperative , they would say I 'll lay so much by every week and I 'll have it at the end of the quarter .
23 After the atmosphere that sparked between them whenever they spent a few hours together … !
24 The client is given a number of record forms and is instructed to make an entry whenever they notice an inappropriate increase in anxiety .
25 ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world .
26 The Venetian author of the Italian Relation of England commented specifically on the English sense of national pride , and presumably was thinking of attitudes which he encountered generally and not merely the point of view of the more literate : ' … the English are great lovers of themselves and everything belonging to them ; they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say ‘ he looks like an Englishman ’ ' ( 35 , pp.20–1 ) .
27 A river is always flowing conveniently by whenever he needs a decorative image or symbolic resolution .
28 A Chinese translator … uses a preposition bei ‘ by ’ whenever he sees a passive voice in the original verb , forgetting that Chinese verbs have no voice … .
29 Popular parlance spoke of Time as a medium wherein one had a certain independence of movement quite at variance with scientific dogma .
30 Erm , secondly to introduce you to our new review system whereby we do a complete item review the situation to see how your existing policies are working and how they fit into what you want out of life .
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