Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's 'ow it 'appened . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's funny 'ow it managed to get under me hat . |
| 3 | a brief history of your business , how/when it started . |
| 4 | He argued that either symbol was used whenever it fell more easily to the hand . |
| 5 | ‘ Temporary ’ regulations of August 1881 — ultimately extended until the fall of the Empire — empowered the government to declare virtual martial law wherever and whenever it chose to do so . |
| 6 | Even though he 'd gone , I saw him a bit , he 'd visit me and the kids whenever it suited him . |
| 7 | Sabatini studied seriously the historical events which form the background to his novels but did not hesitate to glamorize the adventures of his characters and to disregard the accounts of professional historians whenever it suited his stories to do so . |
| 8 | He needed the minimum of cover to drop out of sight , whenever it suited him . |
| 9 | The policy of ‘ containment ’ , which had guided Washington 's foreign policy since 1947 , was now undermined , because America seemed incapable of defeating Communism wherever and whenever it threatened . |
| 10 | For instance , they prohibited HERA from endowing her horse with speech , for they considered this unnatural ; they would also return the sun to its true course , whenever it deviated for any reason . |
| 11 | After a time , the dog would salivate whenever it heard the bell , whether food was present or not . |
| 12 | Whenever it came to matters of personal security , suggestions for improving it were welcome from any quarter . |
| 13 | The Zeeman Effect was Anomalous whenever it departed from the form predicted by classical theory . |
| 14 | The former eco-terrorists , feared for their readiness to ambush government whenever it marched into the green province , had suddenly become people worth informing and consulting at the highest level . |
| 15 | However , it seemed to flounder whenever it tried to pin multimedia down . |
| 16 | Her caravan was at the worst end of the site , surrounded by a sea of mud whenever it rained , and close to the rubbish dump . |
| 17 | Large tarpaulins were pulled over the hold whenever it rained , and most of the crew slept in their shelter . |
| 18 | More potent still was the dismay which gripped Washington whenever it contemplated the implications of a permanently weakened or uncooperative Britain . |
| 19 | We simply invited our readers to witness the process whereby it had done so . |
| 20 | Its master stroke was its ‘ double cross system ’ , whereby it turned enemy spies into double agents , working for the British and feeding false information back . |
| 21 | Having lost control of the Moscow city soviet the Moscow CPSU committee on April 15 terminated the arrangement whereby it published jointly with the city soviet the newspapers Moskovskaya Pravda and Vechernaya Moskva . |
| 22 | Held , that , since in Part III of the Insolvency Act 1986 there was no definition of ‘ company ’ in relation to administrative receivers , by virtue of section 251 of that Act the definition in section 735 of the Companies Act 1985 applied and , therefore , unless the contrary intention appeared , ‘ company ’ was to be defined as a company registered under the Companies Acts ; but that a contrary intention was to be deduced from the proper construction of the provisions relating to administrative receivers generally and the Act of 1986 as a whole , whereby it appeared that Parliament intended that ‘ company , ’ in the context of section 29(2) ( a ) , should not be confined to the prima facie meaning of companies registered under the Companies Acts but should embrace unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 ; and that , accordingly , the applicants were administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) ( post , pp. 243F–G , 244A–C , D–G , 245F — 246A ) . |
| 23 | Not so much the compromises , the deceits , the hypocrisies affecting his work , his women , his children , even his friends , but the sense of despair and failure hovering over him , as though he was trapped and did n't know how it had happened or what he should or could do . |
| 24 | Could n't they see how it had to be nourished ? |
| 25 | What strikes him of a sudden , as he remembers this experience , is how it had been foreseen and marmoreally recorded by Virgil : as Virgil 's Aeneas left doomed Troy , carrying his household and ancestral gods , so Pound leaves the doomed Rome of fascist Italy , carrying in his haversack his gods — books by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and T. E. Hulme and Percy Wyndham Lewis . |
| 26 | ‘ When I was allowed to go West again after 20 years , two years ago , I could n't believe how it had been transformed . |
| 27 | No one was ever able to see quite how it had all been managed . |
| 28 | At the same time as he was engaged in more political work , Marx attempted to rewrite the history of mankind for the use of the oppressed , so that they would be able to understand the nature of the oppression to which they were subjected , and how it had come about . |
| 29 | It must have been painful to have a man you liked appropriated by a younger sister , McLeish thought , but this self-contained creature was not going to tell him — or possibly anyone else — how it had felt . |
| 30 | All attention could now be given to negotiation and to preparing for war rather than continuing the sterile debate on how it had all come about . |