Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever we asked for reassurance , Mr Smith assured us that his tribal chiefs were loyal to him and would vote for whatever agreement he advised them to . |
| 2 | The bubbling song of whimbrel mingled with the excited yelping of breeding redshank could be heard whenever we stopped for a break . |
| 3 | From there he sallied forth about his many errands , meeting the usual obstructiveness whenever he asked for anything . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | DeVore who had arranged the deal whereby he worked for the Levers and yet had his own private laboratories . |
| 6 | How I longed for this , inspired by the word ‘ flatter . ’ |
| 7 | How I longed for a Smith & Wesson . |
| 8 | How I longed for the ruler to point to me ! |
| 9 | How I had despised his brutishness then , and how I longed for his toughness , his uncomplicated , animal certainty now . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , Guy , if you only knew how I longed for you , how I dreamed that one day you would rescue me . ’ |
| 11 | How she longed for the excitement of blasting away slimy aliens . |
| 12 | Lord , how she longed for some such measure of security ! |
| 13 | If only she could tell him how she longed for him to carry her off , but would n't that make him think her wanton ? |
| 14 | A wife 's vivid account of how she cared for her declining husband . |
| 15 | Alison Berry describes how she cared for a patient with a difficult leg wound in the community |
| 16 | When it comes to neck shaping and so on , it is best to decrease the stitches back to the original number , by , for example , taking eight stitches back to four stitches if that is how you increased for the cable before shaping . |
| 17 | Now we could n't have him in this year to give the others a chance so this is how you voted for the nineteen ninety three racing personality of the year on Channel Four and let's take it in reverse order starting with the person who finished fourth . |
| 18 | But Whiteside points out : ‘ Remember how we qualified for Mexico in 1986 ? |
| 19 | And that first night she experienced how one undressed for bed and how one was expected to lie . |
| 20 | A large number of order-preserving algorithms were examined by Amble and Knuth , showing how they compared for completion of successful and unsuccessful searches for records . |
| 21 | No doubt the privies , there were two of them , were much appreciated by the tenants , but one wonders how they managed for the previous two or three years . |
| 22 | BRITISH holidaymakers told yesterday how they fled for their lives when a killer flood surged through their campsite . |
| 23 | A BRITISH couple told last night how they jumped for their lives when their holiday jet crash-landed in a torrential storm . |
| 24 | How they worked for the dissidents , raised money , edited a Ukrainian language broadsheet . |
| 25 | He sat back , studying the hologram a moment , conscious of how it waited for him , displaying that unquestioning patience that distinguished the mechanical from the human . |
| 26 | Those of us who remember the horrid cruelties applied to Frank Williams in the days when he was generally considered ‘ Wanker Williams ’ , an outsider with no chance to make good , can remember how it felt for Emerson to climb down off his mountain and to try to make good in a changing and by then wholly different world . |
| 27 | How it went for me ! ! i.e. A personal experience . |
| 28 | That is how it came for Jesus ’ . |
| 29 | But that was how it started for Neil Murray , freelance bassist to some of the weightier names in rock … |
| 30 | ‘ And that 's how it stayed for a long , long time . |