Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I passed the Treasurer he was talking not of £s but of the difficulty of ‘ number 14 ’ . |
| 2 | Over the following days , however , I came to learn not to be surprised by such remarks from my employer , and would smile in the correct manner whenever I detected the bantering tone in his voice . |
| 3 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |
| 4 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |
| 5 | At any rate , whenever I abandoned the usual literary-cum-public-affairs talk , I would observe him , as in this instance , perceptibly to relax . |
| 6 | He now grinned ; then looked from Elaine to Charles and said , ‘ You know , you two used always to be sitting like this whenever you got the chance . |
| 7 | Yet , whenever she pinned the brooch to her dress , she remembered him , pleasantly , wishing him well , not in the least distressed by the absolute conviction that he would never once think of her . |
| 8 | In the apartment , Jeanne sketched and painted whenever she had the peace . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | But whenever she passed the wood the tales rushed back into her mind and made her blood run cold . |
| 11 | Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part . |
| 12 | And she polished his shoes for him , whenever she got the chance . |
| 13 | For about a year afterwards Anna received aromatherapy massage whenever she felt the need — once , sometimes twice , a month . |
| 14 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
| 15 | She seemed almost afraid of her master , and looked anxiously at him whenever she entered the room . |
| 16 | For months it had apparently been common knowledge ; something to be tutted over and discussed in hushed tones that stopped abruptly whenever she entered the common-room . |
| 17 | She could not see why her mother wanted her , nor what she expected her to do in Northam , and whenever she mentioned the subject to others they exclaimed in horror , commiserating with her , telling her that she must be firm , never for half a moment assuming that she could or would really do it . |
| 18 | Julia deliberately turned to him to explain the significance of Comfort 's private jokes and fill in the background whenever she mentioned the name of one of their friends whom David could not know . |
| 19 | We played whenever we got the chance in the evenings and if it did nothing else it kept us out of the bar . |
| 20 | ‘ The gob on him whenever we left the Amsterdam ! ’ |
| 21 | So trained were these beautiful animals that they would trot from their stalls whenever they heard the fire alarm bell . |
| 22 | A recent research project has certainly proved that a large number of very young babies would stop crying or even go to sleep whenever they heard the introductory music to certain television soap operas . |
| 23 | Unionists did though make war service a main plank of their electioneering whenever they had the chance . |
| 24 | As was the case under the previous law , there is no power to ban specific as opposed to classes of marches , or all marches , and a proposal to the effect that there should be such a specific power was rejected , on the grounds that it would place the police in a situation where they would be subject to allegations of political motivation and partiality whenever they exercised the power to seek a ban on a particular march . |
| 25 | Trust him to be smart whenever he had the chance in public . |
| 26 | Whenever he had the chance he got the whole school out on to the Common . |
| 27 | It meant he could go and talk to the governor of the Bank of England and the chairmen of any of the clearing banks whenever he felt the need . |
| 28 | It 's just a pity we do n't live in the era when a man could set his mistress up somewhere and know she 'd be there waiting for him whenever he felt the urge to see her , but was never , ever seen with her in public . ’ |
| 29 | Just the way you once wished it could when you were regretting the good old days when a man could keep his unsuitable mistress hidden away , knowing she 'd be there waiting upon his pleasure , whenever he felt the urge and could spare the time to see her . |
| 30 | He , like me , loved Scotland , and made for it whenever he got the chance . |