Example sentences of "whatever [pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas said , ‘ Whatever she has told you , it is true . |
| 2 | Because I do not hold the appropriate resource in hand , whatever she 's got , very helpful is n't it ? |
| 3 | In any case , Bertha must be allowed to choose whatever she wishes to take from the house . ’ |
| 4 | I 'll see your Mum and whatever she wants to know I 'll be only too pleased to tell her . ’ |
| 5 | The more ‘ costly ’ your child finds it to be removed from the limelight or from whatever he/she finds rewarding about misbehaving , the more effective is time-out likely to be . |
| 6 | Such a lonely figure is always pathetic because whatever he wants proves impossible to have . |
| 7 | 1 The student says aloud , in the L1 , whatever he wants to say to one of the other learners ( short sentences ) . |
| 8 | whatever he wants to make sure that he 's |
| 9 | Although Dustin is perfectly able to portray nastiness , he has never allowed himself to be other than sympathetic to audiences in whatever he has done . |
| 10 | Whatever he has planned will be tonight . |
| 11 | So he goes quietly home , sits and watches the telly with her a while ; then , in the commercial break perhaps , he leans forward , taps her on the head with whatever he has selected for the job , waits a couple of hours , then rings us . ’ |
| 12 | Well only for the tutor to come in with his er overhead projector or whatever he 's got . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I want you and Fred to go around to his house right now and bring back whatever he 's got over there . |
| 14 | He 'll probably live to be a hundred , and make a will leaving whatever he 's got to his old college , and I sha n't mind at all . |
| 15 | and then whatever he 's got some corned in another one . |
| 16 | Whatever he 's come for , he 's not going to eat you ! |
| 17 | He means by ‘ civility ’ that the inn keeper does whatever he wishes done and obeys all of his other commands . |
| 18 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 19 | They say they 'll do whatever it takes to save their livelihood . |
| 20 | He was basing it only on a recent knowledge of Trueman and the belief that his committee colleagues are capable of doing whatever it takes to preserve their ill-gotten privileges . ’ |
| 21 | In fact we have to show that we are prepared , if necessary , to do whatever it takes to survive . |
| 22 | They will pay whatever it takes to get Scots crayfish and Dublin Bay prawns into the shops and restaurants in beautiful condition , when no one back home can be bothered . |
| 23 | Whatever it takes to get the job done . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You may be prepared to do whatever it takes to get this house , but I 'm prepared to do whatever 's necessary to ensure that Thomas remains in my care . ’ |
| 25 | We will have a new procedure called Continuous and Non-Standard Surveys which says that they will follow the basic procedures , except where this does n't make sense , and if it does n't make sense the job will have in it 's Master Job File a statement of how , it does comply with whatever it has to deal with . |
| 26 | It is n't important ; pop is thus marginalized , and whatever it has to say of greater import is ignored . |
| 27 | Instead , call the dog back to you , and tell it to drop whatever it has taken . |
| 28 | ‘ If the place is guarded , ’ said Cadfael , meeting the abbot 's questioning eye , ‘ whatever it has to tell us can safely be left until daylight . |
| 29 | ‘ In addition I 'll give you whatever it costs to equip you with a suitable outfit to attend inter-views . |
| 30 | elasticity whatever it 's multiplied by |