Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's funny 'ow it managed to get under me hat . |
| 2 | Whenever I said thank you , she told me she had n't done anything . |
| 3 | Whenever I seemed to advance towards him , my steps deviated in some way . |
| 4 | ‘ Whenever I 'd played their records I 'd be dancing around me room , and to dance onstage to the music you like is just f—ing awesome . |
| 5 | He answered at once , ‘ Whenever I 'd found the hole in the floor . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was an insatiable reader , and whenever I did visit Father at one of his shops , I invariably managed to wheedle a couple of batteries out of him — so that I could read in bed under the bedclothes . |
| 8 | Whenever I did succeed in preparing a family meal , I insisted that everyone eat whatever was placed on her/his plate . |
| 9 | In the event , whenever I did try to grow it , it ended up looking like Jimi Hendrix 's . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I took a dose of the drug whenever I wanted to forget my old , quiet , serious self for a time . |
| 13 | ‘ I bet you never thought you 'd end up as a social accessory whenever you agreed to come here for a holiday ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Apparently , whenever she 'd gone close to this man he 'd shooed her away , recoiling from her and muttering , ‘ Pork , pork , pork , VD , VD , white woman , white woman . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ God , ’ her husband said , whenever she 'd brought him home before her father died , ‘ what a bloody awful climate … ’ |
| 20 | No commitment was ever implied , and it was customary to pretend , whenever she decided to depart , that her identity was unknown . |
| 21 | Lucy knew it because whenever she started to talk about Christine , she 'd realise after a couple of minutes that they 'd moved on and were now talking about something else . |
| 22 | Comfort obeyed and spent the next two hours sitting beside Julia 's bed , watching her as she slept and bathing her face with cool water whenever she started to thrash about and mumble in delirium . |
| 23 | Sometimes in the evenings she had too strong a sense of being locked into the life of the farmhouse , even with the door continuously open on the summer yard , her brother away in the fields , her mother stumbling about the place with buckets , leaning on the table or the back of a chair whenever she stood to talk . |
| 24 | Tomorrow , he promised her whenever she tried to ask him anything . |
| 25 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 26 | Whenever we arranged to meet anywhere he would invariably let me down and his excuse was invariable too : ‘ I was taking shots for Surfing . ’ |
| 27 | Whenever we cycled to work , or indeed from work , we met the full force of that malevolent wind . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | " Whenever we tried to escape before we were always captured by the Moi . |
| 30 | Thereafter , we allays made a point of asking the culprit , whenever we wanted to use the bucket for anything from watering the flowers to doing the ironing , ‘ Is this water in here or urine ? ’ |