Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remarked on the truculence , boorishness and dishonesty which I had encountered , routinely , in the hotel and in restaurants ; indeed , whenever I had had dealings with anyone in a public capacity . |
| 2 | She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's . |
| 3 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 4 | Whenever she had allowed thoughts of sharing a bed with Fen to enter her mind , just the imagining had racked her body with sensuous shivers . |
| 5 | Whenever she had arrived before , with her mother , or on her way to stay with relatives and school friends , it had been full of innocent bustle presaging lunch at Marshall and Snelgroves and tea at Fortnums . |
| 6 | However , quite a few teachers took an interest in what I was trying to do , especially the biology teachers , who were impressed with my knowledge of birds and conservation , and my English teachers , who soon heard all about my interest because whenever we had to give a talk in class , I would launch into a full lecture on rearing and handling owls and other birds of prey . |
| 7 | He admired his father-in-law 's farming ability and had been given some worthwhile advice whenever they had met . |
| 8 | I was trying to get away , but she started telling me everything she knew about Kobolds , everything that had happened when she 'd flown one , everything that had happened when somebody she knew had flown one , everything that had happened whenever anyone had flown one . |
| 9 | Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed . |
| 10 | Darren , at age 4 , had breath holding tantrums whenever he had to get dressed . |
| 11 | Whenever he had happened to notice devotional vids , he had presumed that the Space Marines recruited exceptional adult fighters , not … he swallowed his pride … not boys . |
| 12 | She was more bothered than ever , for Timothy 's eyes had a dreamy look which she 'd never seen in them before , and he 'd lingered over the girl 's name whenever he had used it . |
| 13 | Camille accused herself of lack of foresight and rapidly made up a yarn whereby they had thought better of the dinner-party and had spent the evening playing Monopoly at Tim 's place in a blameless fashion . |
| 14 | We simply invited our readers to witness the process whereby it had done so . |
| 15 | At the sight of his mutilated photo-pass , the Croatians summoned , after some comment between themselves , a senior officer , who listened with growing impatience to Swan 's explanation as to the means whereby he had come by it . |
| 16 | and Kaplan J. ) [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 given on 15 March 1991 allowing an appeal by the taxpayer , HK-TVB International Ltd. , from the order of Godfrey J. made on 9 April 1990 in the High Court whereby he had allowed an appeal by the commissioner by way of case stated from the decision of the Board of Review that the relevant profits for the years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 inclusive did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 17 | Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth . |
| 18 | How I had despised his brutishness then , and how I longed for his toughness , his uncomplicated , animal certainty now . |
| 19 | I then told them about the apparition , how I had seen someone walking down the shed and then suddenly disappearing . |
| 20 | I told him about Frankland , and how I had seen the boy with the food . |
| 21 | I looked at Robert 's painting , reflecting how I had spoiled my life : a life that I had muddied and bloodied and ruined . |
| 22 | I thought of his sweetness in sitting beside me all night , and of the shadows on his face in the morning , and how I had gone off without telling him I loved him . |
| 23 | This was not how I had imagined the conquering of my childhood dream peak , and I was muttering and tutting under my breath as I clambered up towards them . |
| 24 | They had heard how I had prevented the King from destroying all their ships . |
| 25 | I would n't let myself think how I had hoped to marry Nour and the happiness I had anticipated . |
| 26 | By the end of that apprenticeship … well , a tacit acceptance would depend on how I had conducted myself in the meantime . |
| 27 | ‘ I told him how I had to go for special lessons and how other kids would sometimes laugh or pick on me . |
| 28 | had been and how I had to go away |
| 29 | I told her how Aisha kept a close watch on what I ate and drank and how I had to take care of the house and children to pay for my board and lodging . |
| 30 | When my master 's wife came into the room some time later , I showed her how I had killed the rat . |