Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do n't you get say , two four-pinters on a Monday or whenever you go shopping |
| 2 | Yes , that 's right , or to put it the other way round , Sarah , whenever you start speech , whenever you start writing down what the wor the words somebody actually says , Louisa , Yvette , concentrate hard you always use a capital letter . |
| 3 | And in terms of unity there is n't a very good chance of unity with British feminists right now in this country because whenever we start discussing our issues , out comes the racism , out comes the attempts to monopolise our struggle . |
| 4 | Whenever they stopped talking the muffled sound of the machinery in the workshop seemed to become louder . |
| 5 | From the customer 's point of view , buying now on credit does save any increase in price that would take place between now and ( say ) whenever he finishes paying off the loan . |
| 6 | In short , he had developed a habit of increasing muscular tension whenever he started reciting . |
| 7 | He had decided that it was time to think things through and settle them once and for all , but whenever he started thinking about Zeinab thoughts became memories of touch and smell and look and emotion and he became most unsettled . |
| 8 | Whereby you know going back a bit it was quite the accepted thing to stand and have a chat for ten , twenty minutes and er life was at a slower pace . |
| 9 | I thought I 'd like to see how I looked teaching rather than how I thought I looked . |
| 10 | I could either meet him near there or he 'd have me picked up as a material witness and see how I enjoyed sharing a cell with Jack Scamp . |
| 11 | And then , ‘ God , how I hate talking this way . ’ |
| 12 | Have you any idea , woman , how I felt waiting and watching for your taxi to turn into the drive from a window upstairs ? ’ |
| 13 | I thought it funny how I kept seeing dead cows but no live ones . |
| 14 | Do n't ask me how I kept going for so long , but it took a superhuman effort . |
| 15 | This was a rejection of Arnold 's view that the change from ‘ childhood to manhood … ought to be hastened ’ in favour of that expressed by Warden Sewell of Radley College : ‘ How I dread mannikizing a boy … |
| 16 | PRINCESS Diana has revealed the secret of how she keeps smiling despite the break-up of her marriage to Prince Charles . |
| 17 | Not that he had n't told her the story of his sainted sister Eileen , and how she died giving birth to her child . |
| 18 | How she hated calling him that , not just because she had an American 's disdain for such outdated nonsense but because Nicolo obviously relished the title . |
| 19 | How she hated sleeping in his arms ! |
| 20 | Yeah fair enough if , if that 's erm you know how you fancy starting . |
| 21 | Well you start going for the paper and seeing how you like walking right under the ! |
| 22 | It tells you what you want to avoid but not how you intend doing it . |
| 23 | I wish to run up to the window of the Mercedes and shout at the general sitting there : Wake up , you fat bastard , ca n't you see how you look parading in this cemetery , like some overstuffed SS officer in Birkenau ? |
| 24 | I would like to have heard how your groups are developing and hopefully growing , and how you liked living in Paisley . |
| 25 | When linguists talk of the goal of linguistic theory as being the construction of an account of a sound-meaning correspondence for the infinite set of sentences in any language , one might perhaps infer that such a grand theory would eo ipso give an account of at least the essentials of how we communicate using language . |
| 26 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
| 27 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
| 28 | Even I was amazed at how we kept going , especially towards the end . |
| 29 | Now on that point , for access someone now needs to pick up and write effectively a simple this is how we project planning on access . |
| 30 | It tells how they returned bearing a huge bunch of grapes , and with reports of a land ‘ flowing with milk and honey ’ , just as God had promised . |