Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I hear talk of the problems of Northern Ireland 's peripherality I immediately think , peripheral from where ? |
| 2 | Whenever I take hold of a woman I feel as though my feet are slithering on tufted grass and goat willow . |
| 3 | In the fluidity of contemporary values we do indeed sink into a relativism for which your opinion is worth as much or little as mine whenever we lose faith in awareness itself , and surrender to irrationalism . |
| 4 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 5 | Her fair hair was so long that it touched his hand whenever they sat side by side . |
| 6 | Whenever he had leisure after that Paul worked on it ; but the Professor began to show a marked desire for his company , and took him with him to other houses where he would hear interesting talk of the kind that stimulated him . |
| 7 | Although the initial injury he had received had healed in a relatively short period of time , he had been left with a pain in his left knee ; this was aggravated whenever he put pressure on the joint concerned , as in walking or even just standing . |
| 8 | In 1977 I finished my three-year term as Head of Department , and made an arrangement with the University of Lancaster whereby I worked half-time at the University , and worked half-time on my own research and publications , as a ‘ free-lance ’ . |
| 9 | But countries now have the option of making drawings under a standby arrangement whereby they negotiate access to the credit tranches but only use the facility if and when it is required . |
| 10 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |
| 11 | How I pulled driver from his blazing cab |
| 12 | It 's how I play chess with Victor . |
| 13 | ‘ I Do n't Know How I Found Time For Work ! ’ |
| 14 | And , when some other retired persons says in my presence ‘ I do n't know how I found time for work ’ , I no longer inwardly cringe with scorn at the well worn cliche as I used to do but instead I enthusiastically and of course sagely nod my head in hearty agreement . |
| 15 | Fascinating to watch : how she smoothed down the shard of the totem to make it a circle , to flatten it out ; how she trimmed and chipped to make the natural lines flow ; how she scored out the eyes , the mouth ; how she touched colour with her fingers to emphasize the woman in the land , in the mask ; how the dead wood began to live and breathe . |
| 16 | Right erm function of disguise and perception class distinctions the money to sort of how she feels sort of like well bred educated |
| 17 | Mrs Celia jay of Blaxhall gave me an account of how she went crow-keeping at the end of last century : |
| 18 | In quite a different vein , one teacher in a workshop described how she spent part of each weekend visiting old people in her community . |
| 19 | ‘ I have frequently observed how she takes pleasure in goading Araminta into the worst of tempers . ’ |
| 20 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 21 | We 've just done Grumpy , we 're gon na do the castle now , do n't point the pen up to your face that 's how you get pen on your face |
| 22 | How you maintain their interest and how you get feedback from them . |
| 23 | The text tools are n't of the usual bold and italic — they affect how you put text onto the page . |
| 24 | And that 's how you spell fare for that F A R E , alright , okay ? |
| 25 | You 're n yeah but you know how you make fun of me sometimes , how you |
| 26 | I do n't know how you keep track of them ! |
| 27 | This is perhaps a rather dramatic solution to the problem of how you treat gender on television ! |
| 28 | They do n't know how useful it would be but anyway , they said there , there 's , it 's a slightly odd event because it 's actually going to be just in the Civic Centre , and er , and kind of tacking on some workshops and things , so I 'm going to help her with workshops and have a display stand and so on but other than that , we 've not really got any direct input into it , because it is very much , sort of , you know , this is how you do business in France , these are the financial problems , type of thing . |
| 29 | Like ancient myths that captured and contained an essential truth , they shape how we see and understand our lives , how we make sense of our experience . |
| 30 | ( You will see how we make use of this principle — called ‘ extinguishing ’ misbehaviour — for disciplinary purposes later on . ) |