Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've seen 'ow me own dad was treated by Galloway , ’ she was saying . |
| 2 | ‘ But I do n't see 'ow I can 'elp , ’ I mumbled innocently , waiting to hear her reply . |
| 3 | ‘ An' I do n't know 'ow I 'm gooin' ter pay it back if yer leave 'ome now . ’ |
| 4 | Well , that 's not 'ow I remember 'er . |
| 5 | That 's 'ow I can be so sure , you see . |
| 6 | That 's 'ow I can be so certain about the expression on 'is face . |
| 7 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |
| 8 | I have to take off my shoes whenever I can . |
| 9 | Mona graffiti started to appear everywhere and the craze was fuelled by my own furious reaction whenever I discovered some new example of the genre . |
| 10 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 11 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 12 | Whenever I say ‘ sit ’ he does n't listen but if I have a biscuit in my hand he does it straight away . |
| 13 | ‘ Whenever I am asked about the block vote by GMB members , they find the explanation baffling . |
| 14 | Whenever I 've needed them they always get here right away ’ ( FN 5/10/87 , p. 22 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I travel first class and I take Concorde whenever I can . |
| 16 | Whenever I pull a shrimp net there are scores of little fish caught . |
| 17 | After my marriage I realised that I would have to use it , put it on whenever I went out . |
| 18 | ‘ Whenever I 'm away I get so homesick for Jill . |
| 19 | ‘ Whenever I have had some sort of public success , ’ he reported in his autobiography , ‘ it has inevitably been followed by a period of personal financial distress and prolonged unemployment . ’ |
| 20 | In the event , whenever I did try to grow it , it ended up looking like Jimi Hendrix 's . |
| 21 | Again I thought , well , the world 's there whenever I want it and I had been presented with an incredible opportunity . ’ |
| 22 | The games are addictive , and I carry it whenever I 'm likely to be bored somewhere . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I use basmati whenever I can , and for dishes such as Chicken Pilaf it is superb . |
| 26 | For years whenever I 've got out of bed in the middle of the night — about whatever pursuit you get out of bed in the night for — my right ankle has made cracking noises , like kindling being snapped . |
| 27 | Whenever I drove to a hospital my question would not be whether there was a demonstration but how big . |
| 28 | I also hit him whenever I can and spit in his face . |
| 29 | But whenever I try to lead a normal life , like anyone else of my age , he comes along with another job and more work . |
| 30 | Now whenever I smell roasted chestnuts in Shijo-dori in Kyoto , or in Zürich Hauptbahnhof , I remember that aching void in my life . |