Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to beckon him ; whenever I met local people on the road , there was never time to talk . |
| 2 | The fact that the three girls who were already employed at Number 147 just giggled whenever I gave any instructions , only made the appointment more pressing . |
| 3 | And so whenever she imagined this scene , she knew that when it came to the visitor 's question she would capitulate and declare against her wishes , against her desire : ‘ Yes . |
| 4 | Yet whenever she considered this possibility , properly thought it through , she knew that it was not even a starter . |
| 5 | She had kept this plant for many years and whenever we had light showers it was popped outside , a treatment that seemed to agree with it . |
| 6 | Gradual encroachment by landowners stealing a few feet whenever they cultivated adjacent fields had severely reduced the width of the original ‘ cordons sanitaire ’ . |
| 7 | I burst out laughing because all the costermongers in the Whitechapel Road always did whenever they heard that word , although I admit that at the time I did n't have a clue what a virgin was . |
| 8 | Kylie 's organisation believed the unofficial pictures were literally losing their star millions and whenever they saw those pictures on sale they moved to sue the publishers . |
| 9 | Although in all the three books considered there is some evolutionary scheme , when we take them together it is clear that Marx and Engels were very willing to modify the overall picture whenever they obtained new information . |
| 10 | ‘ Wils ’ deplores what he sees as the over-commercialisation of Lord 's , and feels resentment at the criticism that allegedly came his way whenever he helped foreign players . |
| 11 | Militarily stronger by ten to one , Israel made Abdallah agree to an armistice in April 1949 whereby he ceded thirty villages in and near Wadi Ara , in the area which became known inside Israel as the Little Triangle . |
| 12 | That 's how I got that corduroy suit . |
| 13 | D' ya remember how I got that box where you could lay them in separately ? |
| 14 | Sometimes I get like I ca n't remember how I got some place . |
| 15 | I was going to have to manage him , and whether I was able to do that successfully depended very much on how I managed this moment . |
| 16 | That was how I heard Old Red had been as angry as Sister over the Charlie Peters affair , and had said as much to Dr Jones . |
| 17 | I can still feel how I felt that day , nearly fifty years ago . |
| 18 | I came to the decision by myself and how I drove that Cabinet to take the plunge I shall never know ! |
| 19 | Do n't you remember how I stilled that storm ? |
| 20 | or how I liked two sugars in my tea , |
| 21 | IT WOULD be fun to let the stories grow about how I obtained THOSE pictures of the Duchess of York cavorting topless with her ludicrously self-styled ‘ financial adviser ’ Johnny Bryan . |
| 22 | Taking all this into account , it is possible to explain how I interpreted this utterance to function as a request for help in freeing the cat — as having a pragmatic meaning roughly paraphrasable as |
| 23 | And in a way that 's how I approached this album , it 's how I will approach Alfie when we come you know it 's it 's a wonderful passion . |
| 24 | This was how I valued other people , too — how I valued Dana , as someone who did not need to be improved but allowed to flourish in his own right , with all the confusions and contradictions of which he was capable . |
| 25 | That 's how she got that bruise . |
| 26 | How she regretted those words now , however true they might have seemed at the time . |
| 27 | She ca n't remember how she spent that day but has a vague memory of being like a wild animal howling through the house , tears pouring down her face , drinking brandy , tearing at her clothes , pulling his clothes out of the wardrobe and holding them close to her , burying her face in them , trying to recover the smell of him . |
| 28 | As the sun begins to rise she glances out of the window and recalls how she chose this film from all the offers which came pouring in after success on the small screen and on record . |
| 29 | Last night Nicola Simms , 21 , from Nutton , Stoke-on-Trent , told how she endured five weeks under the regime . |
| 30 | She told me how she wrote several letters to her home complaining of the punishment she was given and begging to be taken away but she received no reply until one day her brother paid her a visit and gave her the news that their parents were both dead . |