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Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [verb] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Whenever I hear the opening bars of Zadok the Priest , I remember the attentive , eager face of the eleven-year-old boy , singing in the school choir concert for the first time .
2	Whenever I hear the song ‘ Moonlight and Roses ’ I think of him because that was his favourite .
3	Whenever I answer the phone at work , every time I pick it up everybody knows it 's me , you know , cos I 'm the only Londoner in the office .
4	Since I got my FAA seaplane rating a dozen years ago I have become a complete convert to aquatic aviation , trying my hand at it whenever I get the opportunity .
5	‘ Whenever I get the blues , I look at this , ’ Jack murmured , his finger tracing the contours of his son 's face .
6	But I rely on stocking up whenever I visit the States — I take an empty suitcase and bring it back full ’
7	Whenever I passed the Treasurer he was talking not of £s but of the difficulty of ‘ number 14 ’ .
8	And whenever I read the end of ‘ An Arundel Tomb ’ I 'm reminded of William Huskisson .
9	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 .
10	And whenever I meet the spouse of someone who 's having an affair with someone else , I always ask myself whether they know .
11	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 .
12	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 .
13	At any rate , whenever I abandoned the usual literary-cum-public-affairs talk , I would observe him , as in this instance , perceptibly to relax .
14	Well , whenever I leave the work .
15	Seventy-five years later , whenever I feel the sun on my face , it springs as fresh in my mind as if it occurred yesterday .
16	That 's how I remember the very first day of the war .
17	I had the easy choice of remaining silent , or the more difficult one of addressing the problem at some length in various publications ; which is how I resolved the practical difficulties .
18	I do n't know how I got the following impression from Lili .
19	I do n't know how I got the time to play .
20	I do n't know how I had the nerve to speak to you as I did — to turn you away when you were being so nice and so good .
21	If Esmonde ever asked me how I enjoyed the evening 's ‘ specials ’ I could always say I 'd found them warm and soft ; comfortable to land on .
22	Do n't you remember how I rebuked the winds on that occasion ?
23	‘ That 's how I spent the best years of my life , ’ she often said to her son .
24	I can not imagine how I made the mistake of putting a patient 's medical card in with my last note to you .
25	Guess how I heard the news , My scum supporting cousin rang me up .
26	I do n't know , either , how I left the room later .
27	But how I hate the letters in those mags —
28	I 'm sure you can imagine how I felt the next morning — I could n't move a muscle !
29	‘ I ca n't tell you how I felt the night it finally happened ! ’ he said suddenly , his voice unsteady .
30	I remember someone — the school cleaner , I think — telling me how dreadful this omission was , and how I recognised the mixture of shock and pity in her voice without being able to separate the two , or understand to whom they were being allocated and why .