Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to beckon him ; whenever I met local people on the road , there was never time to talk . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Whenever I see coloured people in Porteneil , buying souvenirs or stopping off for a snack , I hope that they will ask me something so that I can show how polite I am and prove that my reasoning is stronger than my more crass instincts , or training . |
| 4 | Now whenever I smell roasted chestnuts in Shijo-dori in Kyoto , or in Zürich Hauptbahnhof , I remember that aching void in my life . |
| 5 | ‘ I have an arrangement with Jenkins whereby I consume copious quantities of tonic water , lemon and ice . |
| 6 | How I put that eye into my mouth and how I swallowed it I will never know , but swallow it I did . |
| 7 | or how I liked two sugars in my tea , |
| 8 | IT WOULD be fun to let the stories grow about how I obtained THOSE pictures of the Duchess of York cavorting topless with her ludicrously self-styled ‘ financial adviser ’ Johnny Bryan . |
| 9 | I thought of that little girl last week when I nibbled some chocolates at a London theatre . |
| 10 | May I express my satisfaction that the Prime Minister does not now take the reluctant attitude towards the establishment of a rouble stabilisation fund that he did in July and August last year when I put that proposal to him ? |
| 11 | I remember when I left Central School in 1966 they said the average life for a woman in the theatre was three years and seven for a man before giving it up . |
| 12 | Now the next thing I 'd like you to note down is when I say other actors in the international system , obviously there are other governments as well but as well as governments if you , the word actors is quite often used in international affairs , if you were to list what the other actors are erm would you , would you note down them , say , put four or five other actors . |
| 13 | The only time I 've flown was when I paid five bob for a trip in Alan Cobham 's flying circus . ’ |
| 14 | There was one time when I moved 14 times in seven months — that really disrupts your education . |
| 15 | ‘ The day when I attached less importance to ( my stepdaughter ) liking me than to her respecting me , I began to treat her more as I would my own child . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ This now brings me to the moment when I have immense pleasure in asking Douglas Irwin to come up and receive the watch worn by his father on that fateful night nearly fifty years ago . |
| 17 | The first time , I went by boat , the second time by plane and finally by helicopter — to the nearby island of Moorea , where I spent several days in search of the perfect image . |
| 18 | I am nineteen years old and at college in rural Devon , away from friends and family and the city where I spent ten years of my life . |
| 19 | And that 's where I got this job with |
| 20 | I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait . |
| 21 | It seemed perfectly natural that I should spend one evening being waited on by uniformed retainers at the home of an important industrialist whose son I taught , and the next in a seedy bar drinking beer with a group of workers from the factory where I gave private courses in technical English . |
| 22 | They are , that 's why I got that offer for three big ones . |
| 23 | It 's like when you piss and it 's really bad , it 's really bad and then you get to the toilet and it 's that 's why I like that bit in , have you seen A League of Their Own ? |
| 24 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 25 | He said he could understand my hatred of war , and why I rejected all involvement in war and the governments that perpetrated it . |
| 26 | The health boards in Scotland are very close to the hospitals , which is why I set considerable store by the approval that had been granted to the applications by the Grampian health board in the case of Foresterhill and by the Ayrshire and Arran health board in the case of South Ayrshire . |
| 27 | I am not about to confess to Rosenbloom how and why I missed that part of the story . |
| 28 | Which is why I think naturalistic plays with domestic situations need very careful handling . |
| 29 | This is why I think this sort of folder worth its weight in gold put the C C Q in there and it does n't become a barrier if you have it like that . |
| 30 | And that is why I think this sort of discussion , this sort of involvement of a wide range of people can create an excellent school and I think that it is the input of the wisdom and the care that we 're seeking . |