Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other people seem to complain about their hangers multiplying whenever I 've got hangers disappear . |
| 2 | I remarked on the truculence , boorishness and dishonesty which I had encountered , routinely , in the hotel and in restaurants ; indeed , whenever I had had dealings with anyone in a public capacity . |
| 3 | Whenever I want to knit bands of reversed stocking stitch now , I know two ways to do it which are much better than using the garter bar . |
| 4 | WHY is it that whenever I decide to don salopettes and head off in search of that damned elusive substance — Scottish snow — howling hurricanes decide to renew my acquaintance and pea-soupers that would have done Victorian London proud descend on the mountain ? |
| 5 | I could do the English and the intelligence tests , but I was hopeless at mental arithmetic : for some reason my mind would go blank whenever I tried to visualise numbers instead of seeing them written down . |
| 6 | That doctrine of notice has got into the Common Law in one or two places , e.g. in the law about the sale of goods in market overt , and in the law of negotiable instruments ; but , broadly speaking , whenever you have got rights which depend upon notice , you may be pretty sure that you are in the sphere of Equity . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | How I like to do things in the old-fashioned way ? ’ |
| 10 | That was how she had met Jonas Hamilton , at an antique sale in Martinique . |
| 11 | Mary told him how she had taken provisions to Granny Fordham , then seen the deer in the back of the car , and been chased , and finally how she had cross the marsh to reach the keeper before the raiders got away . |
| 12 | Mrs Hillaby , the present clerk of the course , told me how she has seen horses collapse at the finish , and one had even laid down and died through being ridden too hard . |
| 13 | This dimension is about erm how you prefer to make decisions . |
| 14 | Now this one is about erm how you prefer to take in information , how you prefer to understand things . |
| 15 | It 's all this sort of the bias that you 've got through how you 've worked things , and fiddle about with sixteenths . |
| 16 | What we need is a perspicuous representation of our use of the word ‘ remember ’ , and of how we come to use words like ‘ yesterday ’ . |
| 17 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 18 | ‘ We want people to see how money is being spent here and how we have improved conditions . ’ |
| 19 | He was concerned to explain how they came to accept jobs which to the external observer appeared to offer them only a lifetime of poorly paid , insecure and even dangerous work . |
| 20 | It seemed not to be a good idea , at this stage of the group 's life , to comment on these similarities , which might have made Mr E even more conspicuously different from his colleagues , especially since , as well as asking insight-generating questions , they had told him how they had handled things better , which had moved Mr E to reject their suggestions as unworkable with somebody like Dave . |
| 21 | Or how they had inflicted cuts with a small sharp knife , then sprinkled salt into the wounds and kicked him round the room so he had to twist sharply and feel the pain of the salt crystals in the raw open flesh . |
| 22 | Certainly they would have had much to talk about , recalling voyages up the New England coast ; how they had dared storms together and mixed with tough Maine characters at the Jonesport summer ball , or how one of Peters 's cruises had been christened after the four B's which constituted their provisions : beans , bacon , bread , and bananas . |
| 23 | She thought about the Josephs , apparently guilty of an especially heartless and greedy crime , and wondered how they had got drugs into the United States and whether they would ever do so again . |
| 24 | And also one of the things we have done is we 've booked this erm Just The Job Exhibition , which we brought down from Liverpool , and it 's got fifty life-size images of black and Asian women , with erm a little bit on their experiences at work , how they managed to find jobs , how they got started in their careers , and we felt that would be erm an inspiration to women coming into Cowley Centre . |
| 25 | But perhaps someone from Midland can explain how they hope to attract accounts from youngsters in their first jobs who have not passed their driving test and have never had a passport . |
| 26 | Secretly warmed , supported , by this thought , which she could share with no one at all , Alice sat reticent , watching the " meeting " develop , seeing on Jasper 's and Bert 's faces how they longed to hear steps , hear a knock , hear , " May I join you , comrades ? " |
| 27 | The project is concerned with 3 to 10 year old children , and how they learn to use computers . |
| 28 | Bacharach and Lawler ( 1980 ) argue that organisations comprise bargaining systems and we need to understand how they work to understand organisations fully . |
| 29 | Oh , I think the majority always have worked hard , but they , some of them became quite flamboyant and extravagant in their gestures about what they , how they wanted to change things , and I think nowadays they , perhaps sadly , really , they feel they , they ca n't so they just knuckle down to it all . |
| 30 | Participants might then address themselves as to why and how they want to use videos , and what they are trying to do ; make an explanatory film of the group , document important meetings , preserve visual and oral material for community archives etc . |