Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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31 You know you can , you can take few of these chairs , and , these chairs and tables here , in the evening , whenever you want to read there , you can do that .
32 Then whenever you want to make your payment , just key in the amount at any Birmingham Midshires cash machine .
33 Why not boot from a lean ‘ n ’ mean floppy system disk whenever you want to play a game on your PC ?
34 Whenever you want to show a trend , analyse large amounts of data or highlight statistical information in a report , then graphs and charts are the ideal means of presentation .
35 Whenever you want to get someone to do more of something be careful to use either or both of the types of reinforcement .
36 And why is it whenever you choose to roll out the seventy foot or more of polythene , which has humped up your overdraft considerably , a perfect tranquil morning is spoilt by a freak hurricane , sheet with a dozen or more pairs of hands held fast disappears over Stickford way and at that moment , more people drive up the Bank than would normally pass in a week .
37 Whenever she wants to go out , she may have to arrange for someone to come and ‘ sit in ’ if her parent can not be left alone ; and suitable ‘ mother-sitters ’ are always much harder to find than ‘ baby-sitters , .
38 erm , but I do n't see why she ca n't , whenever she wants to look for files , copy files and sort out other people 's mess
39 No commitment was ever implied , and it was customary to pretend , whenever she decided to depart , that her identity was unknown .
40 Lucy knew it because whenever she started to talk about Christine , she 'd realise after a couple of minutes that they 'd moved on and were now talking about something else .
41 Comfort obeyed and spent the next two hours sitting beside Julia 's bed , watching her as she slept and bathing her face with cool water whenever she started to thrash about and mumble in delirium .
42 Whenever she attempts to dress herself , in the event of someone 's wedding , she scours my wardrobe , giggling girlishly at herself , throwing off her garments as though she is a small child trying on school clothes for a mother or aunt .
43 Sometimes in the evenings she had too strong a sense of being locked into the life of the farmhouse , even with the door continuously open on the summer yard , her brother away in the fields , her mother stumbling about the place with buckets , leaning on the table or the back of a chair whenever she stood to talk .
44 Tomorrow , he promised her whenever she tried to ask him anything .
45 As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs .
46 True integration rests on non-Disabled people ensuring their arts practice is fully and equally accessible to Disabled people ready for as-and-when we choose to become involved .
47 Whenever we arranged to meet anywhere he would invariably let me down and his excuse was invariable too : ‘ I was taking shots for Surfing . ’
48 Whenever we cycled to work , or indeed from work , we met the full force of that malevolent wind .
49 Whenever we try to stop it , and our lawyers attempt to track down who is behind these publications , they have sold out and disappeared .
50 The problem arises whenever we try to use conscious awareness as a dependent variable : for example , when we want to decide whether or not a particular external event leads to a phenomenal event .
51 We have similar difficulties when we look at such aspects as soul and intelligence : these have a profound effect on our daily existence , yet we have problems whenever we try to quantify them .
52 However , quite a few teachers took an interest in what I was trying to do , especially the biology teachers , who were impressed with my knowledge of birds and conservation , and my English teachers , who soon heard all about my interest because whenever we had to give a talk in class , I would launch into a full lecture on rearing and handling owls and other birds of prey .
53 Whenever we have to remember lists for lectures , appointments or even shopping , we simply associate each item or idea on the list with the appropriate hook .
54 " Whenever we tried to escape before we were always captured by the Moi .
55 Whenever we need to go to and from the Institute , or even if we want to make an expedition into town , we go to the Car Office , at the hotel , where they give us deluxe transport by car , and pick us up again when we want to return .
56 Structures of appreciation in art , music or mathematics , etc , present a paradigm for ‘ … the way we should structure our experience wherever and whenever we need to acquire genuinely useful information ’ ( ibid , p. 137 ) .
57 Thereafter , we allays made a point of asking the culprit , whenever we wanted to use the bucket for anything from watering the flowers to doing the ironing , ‘ Is this water in here or urine ? ’
58 No matter how wasted our lives seem to be , no matter what we do , or how often we turn our backs on Him , God is still there waiting for us whenever we choose to make contact with him .
59 The paradox of diversion is that whenever we want to divert something it proves very hard to do so ; but when we do not want to create a diversion we very often end up by diverting more than we wanted .
60 shouts from Madam Sweaty Pie to enable the older of the canned bus company to leap this obstruction whenever they wish to dismount .
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