Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been a personal friend for many years , but that has never prevented him from criticising my colleagues and myself whenever he felt it necessary to do so . |
| 2 | She had lost count of the number of times she had slapped his hands from her body whenever he waylaid her outside . |
| 3 | But worse , far worse , was his ability to render her helpless whenever he touched her . |
| 4 | She had seen salvation for him in McAllister , that was for sure , and if Neil was more doubtful , about that and about her , with Havvie 's hateful words still ringing in his head , and his memory of her tortured face growing the more painful whenever he recalled it , the passing of time only accentuated the agony of his loss . |
| 5 | Whenever he saw her he would ask her to explain the Bible to him , and in the drawing he made of her , he wrote the Hebrew version of her name , Chana , daughter of Rafael , in Hebrew characters across the top of the head . |
| 6 | I have to say , however , that whenever he thought I was becoming a shade morbid on visions of apocalyptic doom , my old friend Archie Dow , would admonish me : ’ Ach , Andra , I 've been waitin' fir the end i' the world all my life . |
| 7 | He always wore a gown , he beat boys whenever he thought it necessary , he did not need to assert that his was the best school in Wales , if not Britain . |
| 8 | Luke seemed to lose no opportunity of parting her and Rob whenever he found them together , as if he could n't bear to see them slacken pace . |
| 9 | * It is categorically not the case that Lewis had ‘ always wanted to attack the practice ’ of sacramental confession ‘ whenever he found it , This strange assertion ( among many other inaccuracies ) occurs in Clive Staples Lewis : A Dramatic life , by William Griffin . |
| 10 | He took it for granted she would be there to service him whenever he wanted it . |
| 11 | There was even a hint of mockery in the way he tugged deferentially at his forelock whenever he encountered him . |
| 12 | We had a nice bottle of wine , and whenever he poured it he put his hand over the price-tag which he 'd forgotten to remove . |
| 13 | The archbishop was offering Wolfgang his former post as konzertmeister , together with that of court organist , at a substantially increased salary of 500 florins a year , plus the opportunity of leave whenever he needed it to write operas elsewhere . |
| 14 | The biographer of J. A. Macfadyen recalled that ‘ whenever he preached he seemed overcharged with the sense of the reality and supreme importance of the Gospel ’ . |
| 15 | His parents had no piano , but his grandmother had a baby grand and he taught himself to play that whenever he visited her . |
| 16 | ‘ But he did n't say whereabouts he hid it ? ’ |
| 17 | If KC repeated ‘ girl ’ as ‘ curn ’ because that is how he heard it , he would not know his response was wrong . |
| 18 | You forget we 've got spies , all the staff on this ward tell Jim exactly what you 've been doing er , that 's , that 's how he knew you got your hair done , can we have five pounds , she 's just had her hair permed , the day before he 's just coming in and , no they sent to the ward can we have five pounds please your mum 's been out for the day and she 's had her lunch out you cost him a fortune and you say you 've never been anywhere |
| 19 | It was a strange letter , as Bill told me at numbing length how much he hated literary magazines , and how he knew I did as well . |
| 20 | I knew he had been a colleague of my father ; I wondered how he knew I was on the Sort-to . |
| 21 | When he had had a few drinks , though not otherwise , Peter talked about how he knew he ought to have the test to find out if he was HIV negative , as he hoped , as he desperately hoped , but he had not had it yet . |
| 22 | Suddenly she realized how he saw her . |
| 23 | She wondered how he saw her — that was , if he ever gave her a thought , apart from in her official capacity . |
| 24 | Up until yesterday , when the whole thing had taken shape and he had whisked her away to Rocamar , she had simply been his confidante — at least , that was how she had seen herself , and she 'd assumed that was how he saw her too . |
| 25 | Was that how he saw her ? |
| 26 | Exactly how he saw it . |
| 27 | Of course , in her father 's estimation , it was not much of a house , a warren of smallish rooms was how he saw it , and set in a damp situation on the side of a river valley . |
| 28 | I took him into the hangar where the kites were and stroked his uniform , I kissed his insignia , Then I found out how far his freckles went down , I got him so worked up he 'd have promised me anything to let him do it to me That was really how he saw it , it was something he wanted to do to a girl . |
| 29 | For that was how he saw it : |
| 30 | Erm he , he won the second world war in the Pacific and after the war he became emperor of Japan , well that was n't his title but that 's how he saw it . |