Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I went to Fisherton Street it was a must for me to go to Pickfords , the carriers for The Great Western Railway , just to gaze in the window , for right in the centre was a beautiful scale model of one of their pantechnicons , some two feet in length . |
| 2 | Whenever I return to Painswick , I seem to meet someone who remembers . |
| 3 | When I was younger , I was always terrified whenever I thought of people breaking into our house . |
| 4 | they were just like the old fashioned kind and er we 've never been to Harrendle since and whenever I get to Harrendle I 'd get some more sausages . |
| 5 | And whenever I come to Moscow , like now , we always meet up why , I saw him only recently . |
| 6 | Whenever I talk to groups of teachers who are willing for a moment to lay aside the grim realities and talk and think big , I hear them saying exactly the same . |
| 7 | I am close to despair as I think of her — –her hollow eyes haunt me whenever I drift towards sleep being slowly sucked dry by that thing in Pampers . |
| 8 | Whenever I want of course , I can choose when . |
| 9 | ‘ Because although she is relieved to think you and Harry are being so well taken care of by Edna and her daughter , she also becomes agitated whenever I touch on Edna 's role in her life when she was very small . ’ |
| 10 | For morals we wait until the next chapter but there will be the same dependence on spontaneity whenever I choose on behalf of someone else what I think he himself would want in his own interests . |
| 11 | I mean , for instance , in my dreams er cars have taken on a very distinct personal symbolism that has really nothing to do with what you might think , because of personal experiences of mine , and I now know that whenever I dream about cars it always always has this but that 's because of something that happened to me and because of my personal erm kind of experiences , so cars have become a dream symbol . |
| 12 | So it 's like , ‘ Who is this guy ? ’ and that 's how I got into Van Halen . |
| 13 | ‘ I wondered how I got to bed . ’ |
| 14 | " I could do well , but I think how I related to people was as important as how well I did at school . |
| 15 | I left them in no doubt about how I felt on Friday and Saturday . |
| 16 | ‘ I think you probably know how I felt about Christine . ’ |
| 17 | sitting on the bed in my old room last night , I found I could n't work out how I felt about Hilda dying . |
| 18 | I could not explain to Wemmick how I felt about Magwitch 's money , so I said nothing . |
| 19 | Assistant manager Eddie Stein , who had taken temporary control , said : ‘ The chairman did ask me how I felt about Barry possibly coming back earlier this week and I told him I 'd welcome him with open arms . |
| 20 | I was deeply in love with Jean-Claude , and the difference between how I felt towards him and how I felt towards Helmut convinced me that it would have been dis-honest , even distasteful , to go on living my married life . |
| 21 | She asked me how I felt towards Abraham , told me of his feelings for me , and offered sisterly advice on how to win him . |
| 22 | ‘ If I had spoken to anyone properly about how I felt after Hungerford , ’ he says , ‘ I 'm sure I would not have turned my problems over to the bottle . ’ |
| 23 | I believe whatever will be will be ; that 's how I cope with life . |
| 24 | I can speculate about how I know about reality , but no bracketing of current empirical certainties is required . |
| 25 | How I disagree with P R Owen 's views on the community charge ( December , 1990 , Letters ) . |
| 26 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |
| 27 | That 's how I look at life . |
| 28 | And that 's how I look at music . ’ |
| 29 | It was certainly overt in Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ) , with its surrealistic emphasis on machinery ( a Coke machine , a wheelchair , telephones , radios , computers , aeroplanes , bombs ) , culminating in the semi-mechanical yet sex-obsessed figure of Dr Strangelove ( Peter Sellers ) himself , whose rebellious mechanical arm keeps rising in a gesture at once phallic and fascist . |
| 30 | ‘ Then you 'll understand how I feel about Ryan , wo n't you ? ’ he asked grimly . |