Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I hear the opening bars of Zadok the Priest , I remember the attentive , eager face of the eleven-year-old boy , singing in the school choir concert for the first time . |
| 2 | Whenever I hear the song ‘ Moonlight and Roses ’ I think of him because that was his favourite . |
| 3 | Whenever I answer the phone at work , every time I pick it up everybody knows it 's me , you know , cos I 'm the only Londoner in the office . |
| 4 | ‘ Whenever I get the blues , I look at this , ’ Jack murmured , his finger tracing the contours of his son 's face . |
| 5 | Since I got my FAA seaplane rating a dozen years ago I have become a complete convert to aquatic aviation , trying my hand at it whenever I get the opportunity . |
| 6 | But I rely on stocking up whenever I visit the States — I take an empty suitcase and bring it back full ’ |
| 7 | Whenever I passed the Treasurer he was talking not of £s but of the difficulty of ‘ number 14 ’ . |
| 8 | And whenever I read the end of ‘ An Arundel Tomb ’ I 'm reminded of William Huskisson . |
| 9 | And whenever I meet the spouse of someone who 's having an affair with someone else , I always ask myself whether they know . |
| 10 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |
| 11 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |
| 12 | Well , whenever I leave the work . |
| 13 | Seventy-five years later , whenever I feel the sun on my face , it springs as fresh in my mind as if it occurred yesterday . |
| 14 | I do n't know how I got the time to play . |
| 15 | I do n't know how I had the nerve to speak to you as I did — to turn you away when you were being so nice and so good . |
| 16 | If Esmonde ever asked me how I enjoyed the evening 's ‘ specials ’ I could always say I 'd found them warm and soft ; comfortable to land on . |
| 17 | Do n't you remember how I rebuked the winds on that occasion ? |
| 18 | I can not imagine how I made the mistake of putting a patient 's medical card in with my last note to you . |
| 19 | Guess how I heard the news , My scum supporting cousin rang me up . |
| 20 | I do n't know , either , how I left the room later . |
| 21 | But how I hate the letters in those mags — |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't tell you how I felt the night it finally happened ! ’ he said suddenly , his voice unsteady . |
| 23 | I remember someone — the school cleaner , I think — telling me how dreadful this omission was , and how I recognised the mixture of shock and pity in her voice without being able to separate the two , or understand to whom they were being allocated and why . |
| 24 | How I envied the schoolgirls of St Clare 's or Malory Towers : they belonged to a safe , structured world where rules were rules , good was good , and bad was bad . |
| 25 | That 's how I reached the marshes , and the churchyard . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , that is how I believe the trap was set . ’ |
| 27 | They asked me how I wanted the neck and slits . |
| 28 | Oh , how I love the light . |
| 29 | I 'm not sure how I bent the metal strip , but one possibility comes to mind . |
| 30 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |