Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I planted it , I used to cut it right down . |
| 2 | He was cheerful whenever I saw him . ’ |
| 3 | whenever I saw him — what an ugly young man : |
| 4 | Whenever I saw her and Shadwell together they always looked pretty intense , as if they 'd just had a fight or shared a lot of secrets . |
| 5 | Whenever I saw her , she always smiled at me , It was as if she 'd got me confused with someone else , someone important Once I had half an hour to wait for a transport . |
| 6 | I knew whenever I saw her , first time I was in the shop that I recognized her from somewhere . |
| 7 | It reposed in a box of plum velvet on a bed of harsh white satin , reminding me , whenever I saw it , of the inherent vulgarity of marriage , that combination of contract and concupiscence . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd always hung around with boys , never really known any men — certainly no man had ever made me feel and think the dreadful things I felt and thought whenever I saw you ! ’ |
| 9 | No wonder he clammed up whenever I asked him about his childhood . |
| 10 | That was Michael Willis 's line whenever I told him about some fresh disaster in the surf . |
| 11 | I used to give him a pound whenever I met him : let no-one call me ungenerous . |
| 12 | Who was tha who was that oh for goodness sake tall thin gaunt looking man , always had to have about fifteen spoonfuls of sugar in his coffee whenever I met him ? |
| 13 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
| 14 | And one day she had this other map , and I do n't know where she got that either , or what happened to it She only showed it me the once , and after that whenever I mentioned it she did n't know what I was talking about It was made of something absolutely rigid but incredibly thin . |
| 15 | I think if we had a if we if we tried , as you say , labelled the leads and tried to keep the leads together with the video recorders and perhaps stick a think on the video recorder saying which leads belong to this particular thing then the problem would be 'cos this would provide you with a checklist whenever you lent it out as to whether it was coming back , or provide the leads in other words |
| 16 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 17 | She did n't want to go back to the lies Kate told whenever she asked her what the matter was , to the telephone ringing and the queer , high-pitched voice insisting it was the box-office of the Essoldo Cinema . |
| 18 | Whenever she met me she talked about her as your ‘ fancy woman ’ . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps that would make this weakness in her knees , whenever she saw him , disappear . |
| 20 | As always , he gave off an impression of coiled masculine energy and , as it always did whenever she saw him , Ashley 's heartbeat quickened . |
| 21 | She gave Victoria a banana whenever she saw her and would tell Melanie to help herself from the baskets of nuts . |
| 22 | Yvonne Orsett introduced herself , originally , by buying from the stall whenever she saw it , then came donations of bric-a-brac , small craft items and the beautiful baby clothes knitted by her mother who has won prizes locally . |
| 23 | Oddly , though he could never bear to be out of her sight and cried whenever she left him , as soon as his eldest sister , the faithful Cis , got him to her own home he ceased to cry . |
| 24 | mm , so then I saw her last Tuesday or whenever she told me |
| 25 | Whenever she told him she was never going to see him again he wept . |
| 26 | Mum had a habit , whenever she sent me any distance on an errand , of insisting that I had clean bloomers on , ‘ in case yer get knocked down by a 'orse ’ , which was why I was scared of them . |
| 27 | Whenever she did she never stayed for long . |
| 28 | All he seemed to be able to concentrate on was the small dimple that appeared to the left of Julia 's mouth whenever she smiled her rather lopsided smile . |
| 29 | Whenever she accompanied him , whether to a glossy film premiére or a major speech , they reported on the clothes she was wearing , the hairstyle , the hat , the jewellery , whether she looked well , or strained or too thin . |
| 30 | It was n't possible she was attached to young Geoffrey — whenever she mentioned him her voice had an edge of contempt . |