Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I attended his rehearsals whenever I could . |
| 2 | After that flight , I went back to Italy and started to pick up flying lessons whenever I could , became a pilot and then , about four years ago , bought my own plane . ’ |
| 3 | To go into Cambridge at this time on our brief off-duty periods was really a life-saver and I used to go whenever I could , very often alone . |
| 4 | Whenever I could , I went out , armed with my expensive binoculars , to see what I could find in the fields or to observe the coastal birds — puffins , with the splendid red , yellow and blue bills which they shed when the mating season is over ; cormorants nesting in colonies on ledges in the cliffs ; screeching gannets and all the members of the gull family . |
| 5 | Even at school I 'd slip her into conversations whenever I could . |
| 6 | I continued to encourage Jack whenever I could and to try to put positive thoughts into his head , especially on the greens . |
| 7 | I 'd buy grams whenever I could as it 'd save me going over to Liverpool to score . |
| 8 | Whenever I could , whenever we were alone , I would kiss her , and I used to hold her hand as much as possible , even in public . |
| 9 | ‘ And deliberately provoking it whenever I could without making myself obvious . ’ |
| 10 | Whenever I could afford it you know , but erm , there was n't so much money in those days I ca n't remember exactly how much we , we used to get in for coppers you know . |
| 11 | Better give me a game gon na thrash you whenever I could of thrashed at whatever ! |
| 12 | Whenever she could afford it Nina tried to buy one of his drawings , but most of the artists thought he was simply a nuisance and told her she was wasting her money . |
| 13 | Again , while Nicholas was having breakfast he kept getting down from his place , and his mother followed him round with a bowl of cereal , feeding him with a spoonful whenever she could . |
| 14 | The daughter of a sea-NYMPH and HELIOS the sun god , Circe was a powerful sorceress who despised men and would poison and trick them whenever she could . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , she says that whenever she could persuade her scribe to let her dictate to him , ‘ she was hale and whole suddenly in a manner ’ . |
| 16 | Normally all she did was belittle Artemis 's riding skills whenever she could . |
| 17 | She had already fallen into sin by meeting Andrew in remote places whenever she could . |
| 18 | But family life and obligations were not to her liking , and she left home whenever she could afford to do so . |
| 19 | Although she snatched a moment whenever she could to telephone her much missed family , ‘ you could feel her disappointments , her lack of freedom . |
| 20 | She also had an irresistible urge to deceive Wakelate and get away with it whenever she could , even though such deceptions were very easy to accomplish . |
| 21 | So she stayed in her parents ' home during the winter , helping to look after the children , making clothes for them and earning a little money whenever she could . |
| 22 | She was n't too busy , however , to notice that Marianne kept her promise , monopolising Dane whenever she could , finding countless reasons to draw him away from whatever he was doing . |
| 23 | She stayed at home and looked after her children doing some part-time work whenever she could . |
| 24 | Morag liked to visit them whenever she could and Granny and Grandad were always pleased to see her . |
| 25 | From what they said , she had shrunk into a shell from the moment she had got on board , going off by herself whenever she could . |
| 26 | She had made trouble whenever she could , stealing her boyfriends by telling downright lies . |
| 27 | Now that Cara was married , she and Barney lived in London , but Cara came back to Hawk Lacey whenever she could . |
| 28 | We always tried in ICI to offer people jobs elsewhere in the company whenever we could . |
| 29 | The battledress trousers were inclined to go baggy and the uniform jacket was a bit severe , so whenever we could get away with it we wore the other two items , and tended to let our hair float over our collars — also banned . |
| 30 | During our rare separations we wrote letters in her manner , whenever we could find or construct conversations to report ; and I corresponded in this way with our friend , the excellent and long unjustly neglected novelist , Barbara Pym . |