Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Invariably , whenever I am out shopping with my little boy , conversation with people we meet turns to sweets , with questions like ‘ Are you going to buy some sweets today ? ’ or ‘ Does n't he want sugar in his drink ? ’ |
| 2 | Whenever I was n't feeling well and had to slow down , everybody else slowed down . |
| 3 | Dear Guitarist I have been meaning to write to your fine mag for a long time , but whenever I was about to put pen to paper someone else got there before me with the same topic . |
| 4 | Whenever she was not concentrating on something else , it sprang into the foreground of her thoughts . |
| 5 | Whenever she was not working in the house or on the vegetable patch , Endill would find her in the rickety old shed beside the wall he sometimes climbed to hunt for nests in the trees above . |
| 6 | Almost 17 million of South Africa 's 28 million blacks live in the homelands and their support at the ballot box is crucial whenever they are finally given the vote . |
| 7 | She quoted from an address that John was supposed to give to his troupes whenever they were about to tour : |
| 8 | ‘ She pretends to pay Alexei no heed ; but whenever he is not watching her , she looks to make sure that he will follow when she rides away . ’ |
| 9 | While Miller was preparing the Kalendar , he was told of the ‘ ungenerous intention ’ of others to use Dictionary information for the same purpose , ‘ upon which I was the more intent to have it published before such a design could be accomplished by any other hand , which was not very difficult for me to do , having a complete Diary of my own , so that I had little more to do than to transcribe my loose papers and dispose them into the method wherein they are here presented to the world . ’ |
| 10 | This was prior to the introduction of the Actively Seeking Work welfare legislation whereby one is automatically disqualified from benefit if you leave your job voluntarily . |
| 11 | There needs to be a facility whereby one is automatically informed that the entry at which one is looking has a cross-reference to it in another part of the dictionary , and whereby one is immediately given a display of this cross reference ( or all of them , if there are several ) if one wants to check it . |
| 12 | There needs to be a facility whereby one is automatically informed that the entry at which one is looking has a cross-reference to it in another part of the dictionary , and whereby one is immediately given a display of this cross reference ( or all of them , if there are several ) if one wants to check it . |
| 13 | Therefore , very large firms which have secured a degree of market dominance will often prefer independence or , where they do retain formal employers ' association membership , may have ‘ nonconforming ’ status whereby they are not required to follow the terms of a national agreement and disputes procedure ( such as a number of firms in the Chemical Industries Association in Britain , including ICI and Glaxo ) . |
| 14 | I find it astonishing that , in less than a year since proposals on these lines by Robert Jackson , the higher education minister , were leaked , the majority of university vice-chancellors should have moved to a position whereby they are actively pursuing the option of charging students the full cost of their courses . |
| 15 | He had to think like this because of the nature of his employment , whereby he was often required to make inflated claims for the nature and properties of the products which his clients wished to bring to the daily notice of the populace . |
| 16 | And I 've got to try and get to work , get home , get my jobs done and get these cleaned as well I do n't know how I 'm bloody gon na do it all ! |
| 17 | A video of their adopted daughter Dylan telling how she was allegedly molested by Allen was given to — though not aired by — a TV show . |
| 18 | A week later Liz appeared much more cheerful and explained how she was now catching up with her work . |
| 19 | A YOUNG model told last night how she was brutally beaten after a minor row in a nightclub . |
| 20 | THE sister of missing estate agent Suzy Lamplugh last night told how she was almost kidnapped by a crazed knifeman . |
| 21 | It reminded her painfully of Jordan and for the first time she thought about how she was never going to touch him again . |
| 22 | I knew she had psychic gifts , but I could not work out how she was so clued in to this film . |
| 23 | I was just dropping off to sleep and you know how you 're just thinking , yeah , mm what are we gon na do this weekend , and all of a sudden , Ben 's legs went and kicked me really hard , and I thought oh my God something awful 's happened , and you , you really do , you move a lot . |
| 24 | There 's never any spaces behind Clifford 's Tower so I do n't know how you 're just telling me fibs are n't you ? |
| 25 | ‘ But how you 're ever going to convince anyone else that 's what happened , I do n't know … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Tell me once how you 're really feeling , ’ David said , ‘ and then I will leave you in peace . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You know how you are always talking about Miss Hatherby ? ’ |
| 28 | You have to be quite clear in your own mind who you are aiming this at and how you are actually going to formulate it . |
| 29 | We need to be aware of how we are subconsciously taught . |
| 30 | How we are still tooling along unaffected is slightly beyond my imagination . |