Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever you have a few moments , just ‘ flash ’ this image inside your head , feeling your desire . |
| 2 | You can pick the work up and do a bit of it whenever you have a few minutes to spare and the final result is really splendid , whether it is all bejewelled and decorated or made in a simple plain yarn . |
| 3 | After the atmosphere that sparked between them whenever they spent a few hours together … ! |
| 4 | ‘ That 's when I thought a little research might be in order . |
| 5 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
| 6 | Well you do n't , you do n't really look as if you need to lose weight cos it 's probably why you got a few stares , it 's like all the diet books that have sylphlike people on the front . |
| 7 | Well I could maybe yes , that 's why we need a few more to last than you possess I 'll go out and have a look and see about these . |
| 8 | There was a bar at the entrance where one paid a few marks for a drink , and behind a curtain an auditorium of perhaps twenty or thirty comfortable seats . |
| 9 | She last saw him on January 16 when he packed a few items of clothing and left home . |
| 10 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 11 | Cheyney passed from Sandhurst into the army , buying a commission in a regiment which was ordered to India , where he spent a few years in inactive service . |