Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other people seem to complain about their hangers multiplying whenever I 've got hangers disappear . |
| 2 | I remarked on the truculence , boorishness and dishonesty which I had encountered , routinely , in the hotel and in restaurants ; indeed , whenever I had had dealings with anyone in a public capacity . |
| 3 | Whenever you 've seen Rob in my office you 've taken good care to get him out of my clutches very smartly , on the flimsiest of pretexts . |
| 4 | That doctrine of notice has got into the Common Law in one or two places , e.g. in the law about the sale of goods in market overt , and in the law of negotiable instruments ; but , broadly speaking , whenever you have got rights which depend upon notice , you may be pretty sure that you are in the sphere of Equity . |
| 5 | Whenever she had allowed thoughts of sharing a bed with Fen to enter her mind , just the imagining had racked her body with sensuous shivers . |
| 6 | I took the best I could , and this is how I 've made use of them . ’ |
| 7 | This is how I 've bought mince . |
| 8 | I could n't really assess how I 'd handled Ali . |
| 9 | I do n't know how I 'd dared drive down them narrow roads |
| 10 | That was how she had met Jonas Hamilton , at an antique sale in Martinique . |
| 11 | A German tourist we met there , who had come tourist class from Cuzco , told us how she had given money and pens at each stop to the children who crowded the carriage windows . |
| 12 | The presenter said she could only recall a few people , and volunteered the story of David Parkin throwing a glass of wine at his wife and how she had watched Maggie Parkin stalk out of the room trying to pretend that nothing had happened . |
| 13 | I did n't tell him how she had caught hold of my hair again when I was reaching under the bed . |
| 14 | God knows how she had got hold of them , he thought . |
| 15 | Mary told him how she had taken provisions to Granny Fordham , then seen the deer in the back of the car , and been chased , and finally how she had cross the marsh to reach the keeper before the raiders got away . |
| 16 | She was not reluctant to talk about herself , and described with glee how she had left Scaraby through the sewers , emerging on the northern verges of Haling Heart . |
| 17 | But erm I know a student who was at B H S , near she was saying how she 'd had training for er delivering team briefings . |
| 18 | Mrs Hillaby , the present clerk of the course , told me how she has seen horses collapse at the finish , and one had even laid down and died through being ridden too hard . |
| 19 | Shirley Miller of the Chemical Workers Industrial Union of South Africa , explained how she has used ICEF as ‘ information brokerage ’ in disputes with SA Cyanamid , Johnson & Johnson , Reckitt and Colman , and Ciba Geigy , among others . |
| 20 | It 's all this sort of the bias that you 've got through how you 've worked things , and fiddle about with sixteenths . |
| 21 | I told him about the weekend we spent in Kent where Wendy 's brother was stationed , and how we had visited Canterbury Cathedral on our way to Charing , which meant , I explained pedantically , a ‘ turn ’ on the Pilgrim Way . |
| 22 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 23 | ‘ We want people to see how money is being spent here and how we have improved conditions . ’ |
| 24 | It seemed not to be a good idea , at this stage of the group 's life , to comment on these similarities , which might have made Mr E even more conspicuously different from his colleagues , especially since , as well as asking insight-generating questions , they had told him how they had handled things better , which had moved Mr E to reject their suggestions as unworkable with somebody like Dave . |
| 25 | How they had seen deer twice the size of anything in England and bears such as this one , which would crush a horse in its huge , muscular arms . |
| 26 | The stranger must have heard everything , even how they had robbed Mr Sowerberry ! |
| 27 | Or how they had inflicted cuts with a small sharp knife , then sprinkled salt into the wounds and kicked him round the room so he had to twist sharply and feel the pain of the salt crystals in the raw open flesh . |
| 28 | Certainly they would have had much to talk about , recalling voyages up the New England coast ; how they had dared storms together and mixed with tough Maine characters at the Jonesport summer ball , or how one of Peters 's cruises had been christened after the four B's which constituted their provisions : beans , bacon , bread , and bananas . |
| 29 | Some of them had found making love an enjoyable experience but others talked about how they had found sex an anti-climax , especially the first time . |
| 30 | She thought about the Josephs , apparently guilty of an especially heartless and greedy crime , and wondered how they had got drugs into the United States and whether they would ever do so again . |