Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After the atmosphere that sparked between them whenever they spent a few hours together … ! |
| 3 | The client is given a number of record forms and is instructed to make an entry whenever they notice an inappropriate increase in anxiety . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Large hotels often have agreements with airlines or travel agents whereby they reserve a certain number of rooms each night on a guaranteed basis . |
| 7 | Their purpose in reading a text may , therefore , determine how they use a mental model as part of the context for interpreting the current sentence . |
| 8 | and how they recognised a common truth |
| 9 | Following a discussion of the optimal size of clubs , it is appropriate to consider how individuals take up club membership , i.e. how they choose a local authority in which to reside . |
| 10 | In this new series each month a different artist will explain how they approach a particular aspect of landscape painting , and will offer advice on some of the most common problems encountered when tackling this subject matter |
| 11 | But as the subject develops we can expect researchers to be more explicit about exactly how they expect a pragmatic theory to be formulated . |
| 12 | Perhaps people can only address the meeting when they hold a certain talisman ( which is passed from speaker to speaker ) . |
| 13 | Eight thousand miners were known to be in Yanomami territory in 1989 , when they constructed a hundred airstrips to ferry in fuel , food and mining equipment . |
| 14 | The last time Manchester United played in Belfast was in 1990 when they played an Irish League Select at Windsor as part of the local league 's centenary celebrations . |
| 15 | A NETWORK hack and photographer happened to be passing by when they spotted a well-known accountant checking the INROADS mat . |
| 16 | BRITAIN 'S dressage riders made history today when they took a European Championship team silver medal in Lipica , Slovenia . |
| 17 | He appeals from the order of the North Avon Magistrates ' Family Proceedings Court on 23 December 1991 when they made a secure accommodation order in respect of him for three months . |
| 18 | The two men were arrested at a Bosnian checkpoint last November when they made a wrong turn while driving through the Serb-held western outskirts of Sarajevo . |
| 19 | In the US in 1986 when they announced a voluntary retirement incentive ( ‘ VRI ’ in their parlance ) , 13,000 IBMers grabbed it ; then in 88 when IBM consolidated US manufacturing and headquarters , another 7,500 went . |
| 20 | Federal officials made the world 's largest seizure of cocaine in Los Angeles in September when they raided a suburban house and found 20 tonnes ( 44,080 lb ) of cocaine . |
| 21 | With charming naivety , they do not imagine that they themselves are the source of it : they behave as they do when they see a frightened horse , becoming agitated and desirous of flight . |
| 22 | She suggested that the non-linguistic context might affect the kinds of responses children offered at a stage when they have an imperfect grasp of the meanings of one or both terms . |
| 23 | POLICE hunting for bombers who killed at least 250 people in Bombay got their biggest break so far yesterday when they found an intact bomb inside a stolen motorbike . |
| 24 | The members were very busy on 1 June when they held a grand tombola at the finish of the annual raft race in York . |
| 25 | ENCOURAGE your team but be discriminating — do n't say everything is lovely when it is n't — they will know when they need a little pep-talk ! |
| 26 | Charges of human rights abuses brought against Leigh and 39 other officers had been dismissed in August 1986 when they invoked a 1978 amnesty law [ see p. 34988 ] . |
| 27 | BRAZIL can strike a psychological blow for South America 's World Cup hopes tonight when they play a weakened Holland , the European champions in name if not substance , in Rotterdam in the Dutch FA centenary fixture that England abandoned because of fears of hooliganism , writes David Lacey . |
| 28 | The Italians fought with great courage , especially in 1917 when they stopped a superior axis force that threatened to take over the whole of the northern part of the country . |
| 29 | These were old aircraft hangars reassembled on site by the Department 's workmen , however they housed an efficient car works which had built forty new trams by 1929 . |
| 30 | However they got a free kick from one of their lot diving when noone was anywhere near , and Leeds were still beginning to take position when Newell I think takes the kick and Shearer picks it up and scores . |