Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I meet him in the village , ’ he said bitterly , ‘ which is not very often , I 'm glad to say , he walks right past me without even raisin' his cap in respect … ’ |
| 2 | It may be that the first is a purse which is never empty , and the second a pot which provides a wholesome meal whenever you demand one in the right way . |
| 3 | Whenever he buried himself in the ledgers and account books , he lost all sense of time . |
| 4 | Mm , I think they have a system whereby they have it in the classroom for a week |
| 5 | She has a tendency to hug herself tightly when grappling with a question , and at one point , when I asked her how she saw herself in the future , grown up and faced with decisions about her own children , she panicked for an instant and had to be consoled by the female interpreter . |
| 6 | Get yourself ready , and we 'll see how they enjoy themselves in the Big House . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't know how they did it in the end , but |
| 8 | In the dark she could ignore how he repelled her in the light . |
| 9 | All too often moralists tend to regard a person 's moral life as the story of how he proves himself in the face of moral demands imposed on him by chance and circumstance . |
| 10 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |
| 11 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 12 | Nothing much else happened , as far as I recall … but then I did n't visit the cottage much , not before that morning when I met you in the garden . |
| 13 | I knew when I saw her in the graveyard reading the writing . |
| 14 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 15 | I was window-shopping across the road at Tower Records ( good selection , but top price ) when I saw him in the reflection . |
| 16 | ‘ I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw you in the market . |
| 17 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 19 | Utd ( which I was totally amazed about when I read it in the newspaper ) he seems to have settled down and appears to put in more effort . |
| 20 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |
| 21 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
| 22 | Well that 's why I did it in the morning Jean . |
| 23 | The one where somebody hits you in the , now that match ? |
| 24 | She stood five feet six tall in her high-heeled shoes , her long hair was dark , and she was the kind of thirty-five-year-old woman men turned to look at when she passed them in the street . |
| 25 | Sam Somerville 's rental car had been where she left it in the short-stay carpark at Heathrow . |
| 26 | Eventually she came to Byblos and succeeded in having the palace column removed and thus was able to retrieve the casket and take it back to Egypt , where she hid it in the marshes of the Delta . |
| 27 | I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’ |
| 28 | Why you whacked them in the garden already ? |
| 29 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |
| 30 | But I remember only too well the time when we had nothing in the bank and we lived in rented property because we 'd sold our home to keep me racing . |