Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's funny 'ow it managed to get under me hat . |
| 2 | But whenever I try to lead a normal life , like anyone else of my age , he comes along with another job and more work . |
| 3 | whenever I try to like start a conversation |
| 4 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 5 | Whenever I turn to try and get out of the cage , someone is offended or upset , says I 'm defying them or humiliating them . |
| 6 | Whenever I go to see him , he is vivified by his connection with so many passive consumers ; their purse-mouths suck greedily at his psychic account . |
| 7 | Whenever I seemed to advance towards him , my steps deviated in some way . |
| 8 | ‘ I use the Hollower whenever I wish to cross a threshold … ’ |
| 9 | On the subject of home improvements , why is it that whenever I attempt to carry out a simple repair job at home it always seems to cause big problems ? |
| 10 | It 'll be harder to get to the villa in some respects because Val and John , Val , Val 's husband 's retiring in July , he suffers with his dreadful headache , and they 're going to spend ninety per cent of their time in Spain , but she did say whenever I want to go , as long as I let them know they 'll come home cos they 're gon na buy a house in Chesterfield and er she said whenever we wan na go , they 'll come back over to their house in Chesterfield , so , we |
| 11 | I can stand in front of the screen , I can look at the simulations , I can stop them whenever I want to stop them and look at them , it gives me ideas about how the buildings might have looked at that time and it gives me a whole range of variations as to as to what can be done in terms of their reconstructions . |
| 12 | Whenever I want to knit bands of reversed stocking stitch now , I know two ways to do it which are much better than using the garter bar . |
| 13 | ‘ I come here whenever I need to think . ’ |
| 14 | WHY is it that whenever I decide to don salopettes and head off in search of that damned elusive substance — Scottish snow — howling hurricanes decide to renew my acquaintance and pea-soupers that would have done Victorian London proud descend on the mountain ? |
| 15 | I was terrified , slipping out of control , beginning to black out whenever I tried to use my hands , the frenzied white maelstrom subsiding into a quietly pulsating grey . |
| 16 | I could do the English and the intelligence tests , but I was hopeless at mental arithmetic : for some reason my mind would go blank whenever I tried to visualise numbers instead of seeing them written down . |
| 17 | I took a dose of the drug whenever I wanted to forget my old , quiet , serious self for a time . |
| 18 | It happens whenever you try to perform a bland or an extrude . |
| 19 | And whenever you wish to venture beyond the peaceful slumber of the countryside , you 'll find that many lively towns and villages with intriguing names are but a short drive away . |
| 20 | ‘ Whenever you wish to get out of here I will come and fetch you , ’ he said quietly . |
| 21 | ‘ I bet you never thought you 'd end up as a social accessory whenever you agreed to come here for a holiday ! |
| 22 | So it just slides out whenever you need to move it . |
| 23 | It is a helpful behaviour to use whenever you need to pick someone else 's brains . |
| 24 | Do up the coupling again whenever you need to empty the container . |
| 25 | Whenever you fail to produce desired results , assume that the failure resulted from things you did rather than being caused by other factors that were ‘ beyond your control ’ . |
| 26 | Whenever you decide to pick some wild flowers — which is not an idea I concur with at the best of times — you must never , ever , remove part of the root as this reduces the size of the plant that other people could enjoy . |
| 27 | I 'll give you a room to work in , I 'll turn round and walk the other way whenever I see you , and I 'll stay out of the kitchen whenever you want to use it . |
| 28 | Great for long journeys , or whenever you want to listen to the radio in private . |
| 29 | The material in the dialogues will help you memorize useful phrases that you need when you want to go visiting or generally whenever you want to communicate with people . |
| 30 | In loose leaf format contained in a clear plastic wallet , these are designs to use again and again , singly or in a combination , whenever you want to catch the eye and the compliments . |