Example sentences of "and [Wh adv] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One thing I 've not been happy with is that I 've played so well during the practices , and whenever I step onto the court for a match there 's a bit missing from what I can do . |
| 2 | And whenever I teach Adult Education , it is the one novel I can count on to stir the most sluggish class into enthusiasm , to question their own racial attitudes , to move the least enlightened man to a twitch of shame and the most reactionary to a glimpse of new possibilities . |
| 3 | Comfort , to me , means warmth , and whenever I change homes the first thing I do is make it as warm as possible . |
| 4 | Congress , I 'm a Labour Councillor and whenever I sit on the Council I also ask Conservative members to declare their interest before they speak on an issue , so I better declare mine . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In part , it says : ‘ I have not met bad people , I have never been robbed and whenever I left a village , people waved me with tearful eyes . |
| 7 | And whenever I come to Moscow , like now , we always meet up why , I saw him only recently . |
| 8 | And whenever I meet the spouse of someone who 's having an affair with someone else , I always ask myself whether they know . |
| 9 | I was an insatiable reader , and whenever I did visit Father at one of his shops , I invariably managed to wheedle a couple of batteries out of him — so that I could read in bed under the bedclothes . |
| 10 | Whenever I think of something that is needed , I write it on the list , and whenever I buy something , I cross it off the list . |
| 11 | She was a kind woman and whenever I called with a message she would sit me down and fetch me a biscuit or a glass of milk . |
| 12 | And whenever I read the end of ‘ An Arundel Tomb ’ I 'm reminded of William Huskisson . |
| 13 | ‘ And at home by the fire , whenever you look up , there I 'll be , and whenever I look up , there you 'll be . ’ |
| 14 | " Thanks to Mr. Durnall I see two automatic red ticks for a North sign ( crossed ) and a scale whenever I draw a sketch map , I can not photograph an Himalayan paddy-field without looking for moving water , and whenever I see a settlement from the air I think " site factors " . " |
| 15 | ‘ I was going to have a coffee at the Greek cake shop , ’ Constance went on , ‘ but just as I was going in one of those middle-class , middle-aged ladies with a smile on her face was coming out , and whenever I see one of them I think she 's going to try and sell me a poppy or something or tell me Jesus loves me . |
| 16 | I told her how Aisha kept a close watch on what I ate and drank and how I had to take care of the house and children to pay for my board and lodging . |
| 17 | ‘ Have you a small bowl of harees for Um Yusef ? ’ he asked , after explaining when and how I had arrived , that he , and his family , and I and all the household were quite well . |
| 18 | I remembered that when I had first come to live with Jean-Claude , I had learnt to hear him thinking , and how I had not lost this gift but came to enjoy the sound of his inner voice much less . |
| 19 | I thought of his sweetness in sitting beside me all night , and of the shadows on his face in the morning , and how I had gone off without telling him I loved him . |
| 20 | Someone has plotted to kill you ! ’ and I explained what I had heard and how I had put out the fire . |
| 21 | I told him about Frankland , and how I had seen the boy with the food . |
| 22 | And I told her about the timeslips , and how I had found myself back in her time . |
| 23 | had been and how I had to go away |
| 24 | And the problem of other minds ( ch. 5 ) can be presented as the problem of how , if at all , my observation of the behaviour of human bodies justifies my belief that those bodies are people ; little extra is gained by asking whether and how I know that they are people . |
| 25 | You are wondering how much I know , and how I know . |
| 26 | When I think of me days of pain and sufferin' here , and how I 've kept cheerful and 'elpful so as not to be a burden , as well as givin' you the benefit of me company so that you could 'ave someone to talk to , well , it 's a shock to me to find you lazin' about with a gypsy woman on your lap . |
| 27 | They have a very special significance , and how I wish I had known how to press flowers when I was given my first red roses by my husband , but unfortunately I learnt a few years too late ! |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We had gone two or three miles when he asked me what I did and how I came to be hitch-hiking . |
| 30 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |