Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the child who has been taught and has learned to make his babysitter laugh whenever he plays with her can not also hit her over the head with a toy when he is playing with her . |
| 2 | ‘ Whenever he plays for Arsenal , there always seems to be so much pressure on him . |
| 3 | He sensed that his father was silently demanding some expression of regret , but whenever he glanced at his grim , unsmiling face he found it impossible to summon an apology to his lips . |
| 4 | Generally he seems to have dealt with those who came to him with requests by saying that he would do something for them , and then repeating this promise whenever he had to , postponing action for as long as possible . |
| 5 | He held a copy of Milton 's works in his hands , but whenever he quoted from the poet he held the book aloft , like the Gospel at High Mass , sometimes going so far as to wave it to and fro behind his head as he chanted out the words . |
| 6 | I should have warned you that regularly as clockwork , whenever he stays in this club , he checks if the haddock is finnan , if the skin around the black pudding is made of hog 's intestines and so on . |
| 7 | They told him in no uncertain terms that he could not take a holiday whenever he felt like it . |
| 8 | and her voice trailed away , as she simultaneously managed to imply that Brian had the Town Hall in the palm of his hand , and that he had enough money to buy his father a comfortable bungalow in a nice suburb whenever he felt like it . |
| 9 | She let him talk dirty whenever he felt like it ! |
| 10 | The affliction was a subject for after-dinner conversation whenever he felt like talking about it , which was almost every time he ever had a conversation . |
| 11 | That was how she described it to herself , although what it really meant was that he took her to bed whenever he felt like it and occasionally gave her an absent-minded smile backstage . |
| 12 | From there he sallied forth about his many errands , meeting the usual obstructiveness whenever he asked for anything . |
| 13 | Consider this example : PB = Child has tantrum whenever he asks for a sweet ( or something else ) and does not get it . |
| 14 | She fawned over Horatia as if the latter were of the blood royal , her say brown eyes sliding away from his whenever he looked at her . |
| 15 | He could n't help feeling affection for Juliet whenever he looked at her . |
| 16 | Crawling on our stomachs , making use of every scrap of cover or depression , however slight , and remaining motionless whenever he looked in our direction , Abdullahi and I eventually reached the shelter of a low ridge . |
| 17 | He hit one of the great five irons , too , at the last hole , a shot that still gives him one of those lovely shivers of success whenever he thinks about it . |
| 18 | His godly upbringing gave young Baxter a troubled conscience whenever he indulged in the usual boyish sins . |
| 19 | Whenever he thought of that first blind delicious sensation , as he had a hundred times that morning , he had to close his eyes . |
| 20 | But his hands were trembling as he put them back in his pockets , and a thick feeling rose up in his throat whenever he thought of Helen , which seemed to be nearly all the time . |
| 21 | Whenever he thought about this in later years , his memory would go back to the Cuddesdon time and the shock of seeing a House of Commons pretending that it knew how people ought to say their prayers . |
| 22 | If he saw his father on that occasion , Martin did not remember it ; all that remained whenever he thought about him was an oppressive feeling of fear and dread associated with this house that had seemed to him dark and prison-like , smelling of dust and disinfectant and wet towels and blocked lavatories — a kind of compound reek of disease and poverty . |
| 23 | Seb 's apparent resignation to the fact that Anna was to marry Nahum did nothing to ease the pain he felt whenever he thought about it during the next few days . |
| 24 | He goes off in one or other of the ships whenever he feels like it , which is pretty well all the time , nowadays . |
| 25 | Flt Lt Marshall was extremely embarrassed and always avoided my eye whenever he came into the Met Office after that . |
| 26 | For these , they owed service in the host with one knight ; they paid 300 s.bordelaises in relief at change of lord and they owed the king-duke a meal with ten attendant knights whenever he came to Gascony , at the castle of Redort . |
| 27 | He felt well enough some of the time , but whenever he came under mental or physical strain , he contracted a cough and a high temperature . |
| 28 | But whenever he wandered off el grip would loosen , el thwing would revert and the comfortable old mongrel ways would return . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's trying to make arrangements so he can just leave work whenever he has to , ’ she says . |
| 30 | With just a few honourable exceptions , congressmen fawn over him whenever he comes to town . |