Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But family life and obligations were not to her liking , and she left home whenever she could afford to do so . |
| 2 | What does my right hon. Friend think that we could do to stop the drug being imported into this country , or arranging some reciprocal arrangement whereby we would stop importing Dutch cheese or some such thing ? |
| 3 | ‘ But ours is the only alternative whereby we can hope to get rid of him legally . ’ |
| 4 | As an alternative to the cash dividend the Board is proposing that an enhanced scrip dividend is offered to shareholders whereby they may elect to receive new ordinary shares with a value of 10.65 pence per share , an increase of 50% over the proposed final cash dividend . |
| 5 | If so , the claim would have to be dealt with under our own policy , with Lloyds Underwriters only being involved where the amount of the claim exceeds the sum insured , whereby they would have to deal with the balance of the claim over the policy limits . |
| 6 | Shaun Woodward , Conservative Central Office 's director of communications , and former producer on the ailing That 's Life , whereto he may have to return . |
| 7 | I do n't know how I shall manage to look at the screen . ’ |
| 8 | I 've often reflected how I might have reacted in my early days as a Christian to such advice . |
| 9 | You know , hardly get a go-round in the in the Dictionary of Quotations but at least you got the person there which is right , but in actual fact , how I might have treated that and I might what might have grabbed me a little bit more would have been the story which I would be looking for , I 'd be looking for my journalist to turn that into and therefore you might as well try and do it for us , because journalists like , like count on your labour , as I |
| 10 | I have no idea how I might have come by it . |
| 11 | We began to discuss what should be done and how I would manage to support the children , and if , from time to time , I had the feeling that something was wrong , it was only in a distant , elusive way , as if I was listening to someone playing a piano on the other side of the road and hearing occasionally , but only occasionally , a wrong note . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh how I would like to go with you , ’ said Babushka . |
| 13 | I ca n't imagine how I would have survived without good friends who sustained me when I turned up weeping in the middle of the night . |
| 14 | How I would have liked to play that , I thought , but chance would be a fine thing . |
| 15 | And how I would have complained ! |
| 16 | Forgive the typed letter — bit impersonal , but I am trying to get to speedy grips with the little apple laptop powerbook 100 which I got when George was home — heaven alone knows how I would have done without it in the last few weeks . |
| 17 | If I 'd had time to think I do n't know how I would have felt . |
| 18 | And if Thomas had been any older I do n't know quite how I would have explained it to him . |
| 19 | I wondered , as I have often wondered , how I would have coped . |
| 20 | How I must have bored Lou . |
| 21 | How I must have looked , the bloody great English lady , agawk . |
| 22 | Soaring out thought the airlock into the Fraxillian sunshine , I thought of how I must have looked to nay people below . |
| 23 | ‘ How I should love to do that rockery for you ! ’ she said sadly . |
| 24 | ‘ Each and every one had a different idea about how I should get rid of the dog , ’ Anabelle told him . |
| 25 | ‘ How I should enjoy meeting your Inspector Nathan Latimer , Madame ! ’ he sighed when she had finished . |
| 26 | Whenever he was out he set himself the task ‘ to study how and why until I discovered how I should have played the ball that beat me ’ . |
| 27 | Oh , how I should have liked to be you ! ’ |
| 28 | If you had asked me to describe one of the Whistler 's victims that 's exactly how I should have seen her . |
| 29 | Afterwards , too late , I realized how I should have used my twenty-two seconds . |
| 30 | I raised my hand to my eyes wondering how I could have hit it so hard . |