Example sentences of "[Wh adv] anyone [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 2 | I was trying to get away , but she started telling me everything she knew about Kobolds , everything that had happened when she 'd flown one , everything that had happened when somebody she knew had flown one , everything that had happened whenever anyone had flown one . |
| 3 | So whenever anyone came in they would see the icons . |
| 4 | Is the fallacy bound to be present whenever anyone says anything at all of the sort ‘ good is … ’ , meaning to offer a definition ? |
| 5 | My favourites are the nosy parker whose computer opens curtains whenever anyone passes her window , and computerised bath that finds the lost soap . |
| 6 | You will then have the right specimens ready and waiting whenever anyone decides to up sticks and move . |
| 7 | So a couple of jokers in the Leeds crowd started shouting ‘ FAG , FAG , FAG ’ in a jovial manner whenever anyone tried to smoke . |
| 8 | The sensor will react instantaneously to body heat and bring on a light outside your home whenever anyone approaches . |
| 9 | Security lights have an infra-red sensor that detects human body heat and brings the light on whenever anyone approaches — welcoming for invited guests , but off-putting to intruders . |
| 10 | Unlike many of the Falkland birds , it is shy and wary , moving out into the middle of the lakes whenever anyone appears . |
| 11 | The Doctor slipped through the tunnels like a ghost , hiding in the shadows whenever anyone approached . |
| 12 | Whenever anyone makes something too long , she snips one edge of the knitting , then snips the other edge on the same row and pulls out that line of knitting . |
| 13 | In the sentence below , the underlying attitude of the speaker is betrayed somewhat by the adverb actually ( suggesting " you may not believe this " ) , and one understands as in ( 69 ) that he would not have thought it possible for someone to be so audacious as the public relations officer was : ( 70 ) But Drew was as determined as any Soviet Commissar to fulfil his self-imposed quota , and the fuse to his temper began smouldering whenever anyone suggested the 15% target might be overly ambitious . |
| 14 | Whenever anyone finds a provision difficult to understand with certainty , his first and instantaneous reaction is to blame the draftsman . |
| 15 | Admission rates were £4 for adults , £concessionary , with further concessionary rates of £10 for a family ( 2+2 ) and a ‘ bring a pensioner ’ scheme whereby anyone bringing a pensioner ( or a child ) could get in at the concessionary rate . |
| 16 | You said this morning you could n't see where anyone had forced their way in . ’ |
| 17 | Lovat was used to cringing servility , and he could n't remember when anyone had last disagreed with him , never mind treating him to a scalding tirade of abuse . |
| 18 | ‘ As far as I can see there 's only one reason why anyone gets promoted , ’ said Richards , ‘ and that 's survival . |
| 19 | He could n't understand why anyone went to parties . |
| 20 | With such problems and difficulties to overcome one wonders why anyone bothers . |
| 21 | No amount of pouting by Marlene Dietrich or posturing by Robert Donat could reveal why anyone thought the audience would want to watch the dull account of the Russian Revolution offered in Knight Without Armour ( 1937 ) . |
| 22 | Almost identical characters ( played there by William Baldwin and Charlie Sheen ) were central to Backdraft and The Rookie , two of the least impressive films of last year , and it 's hard to see why anyone thought the idea was worth doing even once . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know why anyone gives them any credence . ’ |
| 24 | I do n't know why anyone has n't thought of saying it all before . |
| 25 | I do n't know why anyone picked me to give a speech . |
| 26 | By the first Friday , I had either worked , or been on-call for thirty hours , and I was beginning to wonder why anyone wanted to become a doctor , for I was extremely tired , and nothing of any real interest had yet happened . |
| 27 | A lot of people ca n't understand why anyone cares about ‘ Threshergate ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't see why anyone wants to fight for England , ’ Eileen said . |
| 29 | Yeah why anyone wants to cut them I do n't know . |