Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Thanks to Mr. Durnall I see two automatic red ticks for a North sign ( crossed ) and a scale whenever I draw a sketch map , I can not photograph an Himalayan paddy-field without looking for moving water , and whenever I see a settlement from the air I think " site factors " . " |
| 2 | Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal . |
| 3 | Whenever I hear the opening bars of Zadok the Priest , I remember the attentive , eager face of the eleven-year-old boy , singing in the school choir concert for the first time . |
| 4 | Whenever I hear the song ‘ Moonlight and Roses ’ I think of him because that was his favourite . |
| 5 | Inside , the stove kept me warm while I cooked or whenever I made a mug of tea which was three or four times a night . |
| 6 | This ultimate dependence becomes obvious to me whenever I make a mistake about others by supposing them to be like myself . |
| 7 | ‘ I feel irritated that whenever I make a suggestion you say ‘ Yes but ’ . ’ |
| 8 | Much of his study of the often shameful encounter between the conquerors and the native Indians was hazy to me now , but the clean lines of the narrative still reverberated within me whenever I saw an Inca ashlar . |
| 9 | Whenever I answer the phone at work , every time I pick it up everybody knows it 's me , you know , cos I 'm the only Londoner in the office . |
| 10 | In part , it says : ‘ I have not met bad people , I have never been robbed and whenever I left a village , people waved me with tearful eyes . |
| 11 | Ever since then , whenever I left a job or anyone gave me a present , I was given more of the same . |
| 12 | Since I got my FAA seaplane rating a dozen years ago I have become a complete convert to aquatic aviation , trying my hand at it whenever I get the opportunity . |
| 13 | ‘ Whenever I get the blues , I look at this , ’ Jack murmured , his finger tracing the contours of his son 's face . |
| 14 | But I rely on stocking up whenever I visit the States — I take an empty suitcase and bring it back full ’ |
| 15 | Whenever I pull a shrimp net there are scores of little fish caught . |
| 16 | Whenever I passed the Treasurer he was talking not of £s but of the difficulty of ‘ number 14 ’ . |
| 17 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 18 | Whenever I had a sheet of paper in front of me and a paintbrush or pencil in my hand , the result was inevitable . |
| 19 | I used to hate it when Nanny put rags in my hair and , whenever I had a wish , I used to wish that mine was curly like yours . ’ |
| 20 | It was in those days , then , prompted by my natural admiration for the lady , that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment . |
| 21 | Serves me right , but it always serves as a reminder too , whenever I fish a new swim . |
| 22 | And whenever I read the end of ‘ An Arundel Tomb ’ I 'm reminded of William Huskisson . |
| 23 | But from now on , whenever I read an accident report , I shall be slightly less blasé . |
| 24 | Over the following days , however , I came to learn not to be surprised by such remarks from my employer , and would smile in the correct manner whenever I detected the bantering tone in his voice . |
| 25 | And whenever I meet the spouse of someone who 's having an affair with someone else , I always ask myself whether they know . |
| 26 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |
| 27 | Robert Courtney Edwin Robertson writes : Whenever I answered the telephone in the fifties and sixties and heard the anxious voice at the other end saying ‘ Here is Hartvell ’ ( he never quite managed that English ‘ W ’ ) , I knew that either my deadline for an article was passed or he had some exciting new book for me to review . |
| 28 | so it , any , whenever I have a cell , put a label in |
| 29 | At any rate , whenever I abandoned the usual literary-cum-public-affairs talk , I would observe him , as in this instance , perceptibly to relax . |
| 30 | The hairs prickle on my nape whenever I see a picture representing a deep , dark forest . |