Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concomitant symptoms are symptoms not directly related to but arising at the same time as , the main complaint such as a headache with diarrhoea or cold sores with a fever — things which are repeatedly associated , so that the patient might say ‘ Whenever I get this problem I always get a stomach upset ’ or whatever it may be . |
| 2 | I find that whenever I notice some sentence in context , I immediately find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . |
| 3 | I have a few which appear on my living room carpet whenever I watch certain TV programmes . |
| 4 | Whenever I watch American Football or baseball , the fanaticism of the supporters towards their own team leaps out . |
| 5 | Indeed , why should I deny it ? for all its sad associations , whenever I recall that evening today , I find I do so with a large sense of triumph . |
| 6 | Yes , in the language of Buddhism you do not speak about ‘ How I impel this thing ’ but how it releases itself . |
| 7 | That 's how I got that corduroy suit . |
| 8 | D' ya remember how I got that box where you could lay them in separately ? |
| 9 | Sometimes I get like I ca n't remember how I got some place . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | How I put that eye into my mouth and how I swallowed it I will never know , but swallow it I did . |
| 13 | Look how I put that microphone . |
| 14 | How I loathe that expression . |
| 15 | God , how I hate that woman . ’ |
| 16 | I can still feel how I felt that day , nearly fifty years ago . |
| 17 | I came to the decision by myself and how I drove that Cabinet to take the plunge I shall never know ! |
| 18 | How I know this thing is all tied up with the decision to spy on him . |
| 19 | Do n't you remember how I stilled that storm ? |
| 20 | Here 's how I play this shot . |
| 21 | Javier Clemente , Spain 's new manager , says : ‘ Everybody knows how I admire English football and how I wanted Wembley as the perfect place for my debut match . ’ |
| 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 | Harris goes on : ‘ This is roughly how I feel this morning contemplating my future career as a political columnist : 1,200 words a week , week in , week out , stretching into the 14th , 15th , 16th , 17th and maybe even — God preserve us — the 18th successive years of Conservative rule … |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Right , young lady , there are a few things you need to know about how I run this unit , and the first is that my nurses do n't loll around in the corridors indulging in idle chatter with strange men ! ’ |
| 26 | The writer of the old guide book whence I gleaned this misinformation had unknowingly quoted a fragment of folklore older than Roscommon Town and its jail . |
| 27 | No they were out all day Tuesday , I do n't know where they were , I rang right from phoning our June when I got that letter twenty five past ten and so ten to four were ringing on and off and there were nobody so I do n't know where they were . |
| 28 | The innocent words suddenly filled me with horror : there had been a time before I was born , a time when I had not existed , a time when I lacked individual consciousness — this last being the most horrifying notion . |
| 29 | Inevitably I shot many animals to feed myself and my retainers , but the memorable occasions were when I hunted dangerous game or tried to secure a really fine head of a rare or elusive animal , like this mountain nyala . |
| 30 | I had hoped there would be a letter from him waiting at Benedict 's when I returned last night . |