Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madam Deputy Speaker , throughout my speech last week I got approval er from the front bench , I got approving nods from my colleagues and winks and a hear hears whenever I said anything about deregulation . |
| 2 | No wonder he clammed up whenever I asked him about his childhood . |
| 3 | That was Michael Willis 's line whenever I told him about some fresh disaster in the surf . |
| 4 | Oh yes and then we Oh whenever we had anything like picnics or anything like that , we had lovely white dresses that were made of what they called nun 's veiling . |
| 5 | ‘ But whenever we left him in his cot and then went back to him , we 'd notice that he 'd made terrible scratches on his face with his fingernails and he would rip the backs of his legs with his toes . |
| 6 | Whenever he buried himself in the ledgers and account books , he lost all sense of time . |
| 7 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 8 | And all I could think about was George , about how I had nothing at all left for George now . |
| 9 | yeah , that , that 's how I bought it in Sainsburys a few years ago |
| 10 | That was how I wanted it to be , but what made me ache was the knowledge that Jo could n't have all she wanted : to he the writer of stories , whose stories were her children , but heart-breakingly not to have Laurie . |
| 11 | Erm it 's not working quite how I wanted it to but if I keep putting stuff on then |
| 12 | Do you want me to tell you how I did mi , how I did it on mine ? |
| 13 | But somehow Sampras did reach it and Forget managed to make sure with his second volley and said later ‘ … but I 'm not quite sure how I did it with the wrong grip ’ . |
| 14 | How I hated you for that . ’ |
| 15 | I 've already told you how I threw them into the river . ’ |
| 16 | That 's how she met him at relatives party . |
| 17 | She has a tendency to hug herself tightly when grappling with a question , and at one point , when I asked her how she saw herself in the future , grown up and faced with decisions about her own children , she panicked for an instant and had to be consoled by the female interpreter . |
| 18 | She meant Hepzibah and Mister Johnny and how she owed it to them to let them stay in the house because there was nowhere else they could go , not with Mister Johnny 's shy ways . |
| 19 | It was strange how she loved him for that business with Tommaso so long ago , how she had such a feeling for the intricate conventions of the old code , and saw him as a man of honour , a duellist . |
| 20 | Buttoned up and locked in was how she described him to herself . |
| 21 | That was how she described it to herself , although what it really meant was that he took her to bed whenever he felt like it and occasionally gave her an absent-minded smile backstage . |
| 22 | When my father died there were a lot of quarrels between my mother and I. I 'd always lived with my father , so I did n't know her , or how she wanted me to be . |
| 23 | Oh , how she wanted him to . |
| 24 | Haltingly , she spoke about her sudden irrational terror on the dance floor , the nun leading her away , how she found herself in a bedroom with Jack Butler . |
| 25 | ‘ — would you mind confirming exactly how you distinguished yourself by finding us ? |
| 26 | The danger is that they might turn out to be entirely different from how you expected them to be . |
| 27 | I have n't forgotten either how you rescued me from that drunken Scot in Champers a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I thought I 'd see how you wanted it to be between us . |
| 29 | He had his bloody he had his cushion and he had his bloody , you know that one how we got him with his head on his cushion like that ? |
| 30 | Derek , just keep up the pressure , just demonstrate how we got them by the short and curlies and |