Example sentences of "wherever it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Wherever it saves space , we shall always write a column vector x as unc the braces{} denote that this is to be read as a column .
2 This moderate system of government was frequently adopted by Charles , who early on in his reign had recognised the wisdom of leaving local leaders in place wherever it seemed possible and beneficial to his own aims .
3 Thus , while the French economy ( as well as that of West Germany ) was clearly pulling ahead of the British , de Gaulle was eager to go his own way and even defy the United States ( not least in economic matters ) wherever it seemed appropriate .
4 Instinct caused him to put out both hands in an attempt to break the fall , and Ellwood was on him , the rod flailing , blood rising from Carey 's face in a thick mist of spray , the hook going into his flesh wherever it landed and ripping out again as Ellwood 's arms rose and fell , rose and fell .
5 And consider the cast of grants by Britain to overseas nations in need : Today , these gifts , and that is what they are , are handed out without strings , allowing the benefiting nation to spend British taxpayers ' money wherever it likes .
6 We were bundles , lifted up and put down wherever it suited our captors .
7 get blisters over me wherever it touches try and eat one , I 'd have them on my tongue and in my mouth and everywhere .
8 The nine , well you go down into and you get a bus go wherever it dropped you and then half a mile , mind you that 's gon na cost you about fifty P
9 That was the excitement of today : She could follow that music wherever it led .
10 It is a free agent once released into a burrow and is free to go wherever it feels inclined .
11 Just to make sure that erm just to make sure that we do n't think it 's just spinning wherever it feels like spinning , it 's spinning on its axis is n't it .
12 It would delight me to be able to buy you presents ; to take you with me to my friends ' houses , to the theatre , to Biarritz , to Cannes — wherever it pleased you to go . ’
13 If you find it difficult to keep a rally going within the confines of the court , chase the ball wherever it goes so that you become accustomed to the habit of pursuing the ball .
14 It gathers puzzled observers wherever it goes , too .
15 The Tour is the focus of a local fair wherever it goes and celebrations last into the night .
16 Wherever it goes McDonald 's seems to raise hackles .
17 The selection procedure the forty-six weekenders were undergoing was devised in 1980 to recognize talent , wherever it came from .
18 Finally , as an incipient autocrat , he would not tolerate any interference , or " mediation " , wherever it came from , but especially if it came from foreigners .
19 And then he 'd waited there , too ashamed to face other nomes , until the car went back to wherever it came from , and had got off , and was living out the rest of his life quietly and without any fuss .
20 He had no doubt that he would be able to keep pace with the rickshaw and follow it wherever it went , even now , when the descending darkness created streets of shadow where there were none in reality , and when the eye played tricks on the heart .
21 Far more clear in my mind were recurrent pictures of Victor trembling as if with fever ; Elizabeth , fair and beautiful and composed ; Justine , pleading without effect for her life before a room full of people covertly eager for her blood ; and the creature Frankenstein had made — that gigantic figure without a face , striking fear and worse than fear wherever it went .
22 The Law Lords held that this publication was protected by qualified privilege : the Council had a duty to leap to the General 's defence , and the privilege was not lost by the fact of world-wide publication , because " a man who makes a statement on the floor of the House of Commons makes it to all the world … it was only plain justice to the General that the ambit of contradiction should be spread so wide as , if possible , to meet the false accusation wherever it went . "
23 The ubiquity of these notions also reflects that the labour process itself influences policemen and women in how they view their work , and the sociology of policing has shown how routine policing consists of similar tasks wherever it occurs .
24 However , in one scientific sense , it means ‘ light wherever it occurs ’ .
25 The effect of suppression , wherever it occurs , is that stimuli presented to the left ear are destined predominantly for the right hemisphere and stimuli heard at the right ear arrive mainly in the left hemisphere .
26 Since the broad , ‘ genus ’ tort is a comparatively recent growth , most of the authorities on unlawful means concern the older , nominate wrongs so that the elements of the former are to some extend rationalisations from the latter and , as we have seen , there is a regrettable element of doubt as to whether ‘ unlawful means ’ bears the same meaning wherever it occurs .
27 Act against river pollution wherever it occurs ( 14c )
28 Weighing it all up , Ramsay came to the conclusion that the chances of capturing the usurper at this stage were all but non-existent , and that their wisest course was to return at once with his dire news to the main Scots array in Annandale or wherever it had reached by now .
29 A tumbling weir creates the localized conditions of an upland brook wherever it crosses a silty lowland stream .
30 One thing is clear : Islam flourishes like a hardy plant wherever it springs up , and a tradition that has endured for over 1,300 years is sure to endure for a few more .
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