Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Julie now owns several different types of crystals and finds they have a comforting and calming influence whenever she feels stressed .
2 She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's .
3 Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength .
4 Whenever she had allowed thoughts of sharing a bed with Fen to enter her mind , just the imagining had racked her body with sensuous shivers .
5 Whenever she had arrived before , with her mother , or on her way to stay with relatives and school friends , it had been full of innocent bustle presaging lunch at Marshall and Snelgroves and tea at Fortnums .
6 Apparently , whenever she 'd gone close to this man he 'd shooed her away , recoiling from her and muttering , ‘ Pork , pork , pork , VD , VD , white woman , white woman . ’
7 ‘ God , ’ her husband said , whenever she 'd brought him home before her father died , ‘ what a bloody awful climate … ’
8 Try and encourage her , excuse me , try and encourage her to come and see you whenever she 's got a problem .
9 How she had suffered for him , for her poor pitiable ridiculous father , how she had hated her cruel peers for their relentless mocking , how she had dreaded each Christmas pantomime , each school-leavers ' farewell , each assembly that she knew her father was due to conduct , each occasion on which she heard him open his mouth in public .
10 One woman described how she had gone back to work after the death of her husband , determined to be brave .
11 Lamont told how she had gone round the dining room at breakfast handing out brochures about her Foundation .
12 For example , she described how she had gone about painting ‘ The Shelton with Sunspots ’ ( 1926 ) which was exhibited in 1927 : ‘ I do n't start until I 'm almost entirely clear .
13 Lady Maude nodded , remarking how she had heard that Sir Ralph was a hard , cruel man .
14 She was just congratulating herself that Fen need never know how she had weakened when the galley light was flicked on .
15 That was how she had met Jonas Hamilton , at an antique sale in Martinique .
16 Afterwards she wondered how she had kept silent , holding her breath , listening to the drumming of her heart .
17 Ella told me , that evening , of how she had lost her husband in a London blitz , when her house and all her personal possessions had been destroyed by a Nazi bomb .
18 Maxim had noticed how she had adopted certain American phrases and mannerisms as well , not because she was trying to pass as an American , but just to blend into the background .
19 She knew how Beth had gone to the lodging house on the night when her own father disowned her ; how she had run to her lover only to be turned away from there broken-hearted when the girl claimed that Tyler was the father of her own mythical child .
20 How she had missed it .
21 He knew Katherine Lundy 's reputation in Dublin , knew what she was , knew how she had achieved her reputation there and how she had carved herself a slice of the London underworld .
22 This was n't going at all how she had hoped .
23 She remembered with strange clarity the concentration she had put into cutting the flowers ; how she had hoped her father would think she had chosen the right ones .
24 Once more she saw the attractive man she had noticed in the High Street , and her colour rose as she recalled how she had hoped to meet him some day .
25 He did n't see any reason to mind it , but he wondered how she had developed such a good instinct for discovering his whereabouts .
26 Remembering how she had stood on the tower battlements the next morning , watching her knight ride away .
27 She could never forget how she had swung the boy , a little thing of six or seven ; that nor the heat ; as all the purr of a pussy cat , the linger of her hand .
28 Jessamy closed her eyes and wondered how she had lived without this sweet physical contact for so long .
29 Elizabeth , watching , felt an unexpected sympathy for her , remembering how she had felt herself , with baby Alan in her arms and him not even hers .
30 She had forgotten all her troubles , the long school day — how she had felt , so monstrous , the little children , standing with the tawse .
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