Example sentences of "[Wh adv] we [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever we come here we see somebody we know do n't we ? |
| 2 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 3 | Bill reveals : ‘ Whenever we meet up it 's all flowers and champagne , and it 's like another honeymoon . |
| 4 | Schegloff has made studies of the rules of conversation in so far as they govern who speaks when , and how we know when it is our turn to speak . |
| 5 | We feel differently about our parents when we are children than we do as adults , and while this may not alter our recollections of everyday family life , it will affect what we choose to highlight , and how we sum up our relationship with them . |
| 6 | How we talk how we talk . |
| 7 | You see the thing is wh when we come home we 've got such a su such a , a distance to cover , you know it 's , it 's difficult . |
| 8 | so , erm , last night when we came home I looked at this Argos ticket which I could n't find and I 've , in that I 've found what erm a Weight Watcher er menu , so I picked that out , so I 've had erm do n't know what you 'll call it today , boiled egg and toast , eh bread and butter |
| 9 | That 's west unless we 're off course , in which case it 's night ; the King gave me the same as you , the King gave you the same as me : the King never gave me the letter , the King gave you the letter , we do n't know what 's in the letter ; we take Hamlet to the English King , it depending on when we get there who he is , and we hand over the letter , which may or may not have something in it to keep us going , and if not , we are finished and at a loose end , if they have loose ends . |
| 10 | See when we go normally there 's no time limit , but busy week you have a we had the orange armbands , you , you trade your key in for an or orange armband |
| 11 | I know when we go out we leave our lights on . |
| 12 | We knew what we were looking for and we knew if we looked long enough and hard enough we would find it , but there were times when we thought perhaps it is n't out there . |
| 13 | and what have you come down for a meal and we used to sit with the landlord having a having a natter whilst having a few few drinks and er yeah he he used to say er when we went up what do you fancy tonight ? |
| 14 | Mind you , so did we when we went round your place last night and found you gone . |
| 15 | And he I ca n't remember what it was now but he told us and erm a couple of days later he says erm when we went out he said what do you fancy tonight ? |
| 16 | Each evening when we tidied away our papers I expected Edward to invite me over to the Lodge for a drink or a meal , and the invitation was not extended . |
| 17 | That was when we found out you were down . ’ |
| 18 | Moreover , unlike most medieval letter writers — and , for that matter , even unlike most of us today when we dash off our epistles without much thought about the time — Petrarch ‘ spells out the dates ( including the hour ) with weight and deliberation , as if to stress the importance of taking one 's bearings in time ’ . |
| 19 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 20 | to where we live so it was convenient to stay there |
| 21 | At the table , in paragraph seven where we set out our differences from the County Council . |
| 22 | That is why we put forward our amendment and hope against all hope that Labour may see the light and vote with us on our amendment . |
| 23 | Well thi this is why we dun n it quite seriously because I mean I 'm bored to tears ! |