Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whenever I try to lead a normal life , like anyone else of my age , he comes along with another job and more work . |
| 2 | whenever I try to like start a conversation |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Whenever I turn to try and get out of the cage , someone is offended or upset , says I 'm defying them or humiliating them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Whenever I seemed to advance towards him , my steps deviated in some way . |
| 7 | ‘ I use the Hollower whenever I wish to cross a threshold … ’ |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I come here whenever I need to think . ’ |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I took a dose of the drug whenever I wanted to forget my old , quiet , serious self for a time . |
| 17 | I shall make an announcement later , indicating how I hope to increase the inspectorate . |
| 18 | How I like to do things in the old-fashioned way ? ’ |
| 19 | This was not how I wished to catch my first sight of the fabled city of Lazarillo de Tormes and of Gil Blas , who in Le Sage 's novel made the journey to Salamanca only from Oviedo in the north . |
| 20 | How I tend to start with the boring bits like the sky and then reward myself later with an interesting part like a face or a patch of white . |
| 21 | Since then my ( now ex- ) girlfriend was really good mates with the two of them cos she was in their year ( Yes I know I 'm a paedophile ) so that was how I got to go to their 18th birthday parties and Al 's leaving do . |
| 22 | And er so I said she dissolved into fits of laughter so after that she explained it by saying well I used to be a trainer and I know how I got to avoid the stock phrases . |
| 23 | That was how I got to know Nikolai Nikolaevich Khardzhiev . |
| 24 | That 's how I got to know Stephen . |
| 25 | ‘ I told him how I had to go for special lessons and how other kids would sometimes laugh or pick on me . |
| 26 | had been and how I had to go away |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | George could n't understand how I managed to live on my own . |
| 29 | I do n't know how I managed to turn the corner without bumping into something ! |
| 30 | How I managed to do that I do not know . |