Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the execution was carried out in the Fort of Penha de França , the people of Madeira showed their disgust by turning their heads away from the fort whenever they passed it . |
| 2 | Its representatives could not understand the peculiar reaction they got form the French whenever they produced their business cards . |
| 3 | He said they were good to him whenever they saw him but often he did n't choose to let them see him . |
| 4 | ‘ This was equally true of the teachers , since they , together with the headmaster , could have decided to stop my research whenever they felt it threaten them ; equally , if they had accepted me with open arms it would have meant that the boys would not have trusted me greatly . ’ |
| 5 | And , and whenever they knew you 've come would you , would you walk through and , and they used to for us every time an tha and that in those days they 'd give you a couple of bob which is , it was a fortune to me at that age . |
| 6 | The lasses carded wool or span whenever they had nothing else to do , just as at home . |
| 7 | I think the teachers did influence me a lot in their own enthusiasm for the subject ; it seemed to rub off on me , you know ; whenever they taught me something , a new concept or something , I 'd come away feeling enlightened by it , and wanting to know more , just this curiosity for more knowledge . |
| 8 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 9 | She said that she could start whenever they needed her ; tomorrow , if they wanted . |
| 10 | She seemed to be caught up in a permanent giddying whirl , of trying to run the nightclub , making herself available to the police whenever they needed her , and coping with the demands of a sensation-hungry Press which had swooped on to the drugs-bust story with its famous heroine like a pack of vultures . |
| 11 | Whenever they visited me I listened to him reading . |
| 12 | The staff at school loathed him , but found his genius for getting into locked cars undeniably useful whenever they lost their car keys , which seemed to happen quite frequently . |
| 13 | She swam and sunbathed , went sightseeing , worked on her designs , talked brightly on the phone with Lucy , or Dad or Charles whenever they rang her , forcing herself not to ask whether Guy had moved in on the firm yet , and then wincing when Lucy said that he 'd made his mark in a dramatic emergency board meeting , put up the backs of most of the board of directors when he announced sweeping measures to increase profitability , cut overheads … |
| 14 | If it begins transmitting , millions of homes could find interference ranging from small , wavy lines to total picture distortion whenever they used their VCR , the ITC said . |
| 15 | And they took counsel and made a letter for the leader of the army of the Almoravides , wherein they told him that the Cid had made a treaty with the King of Aragon , whereby the King bound himself to help him against them ; and they bade him beware how he came towards Valencia , unless he chose to do battle with eight thousand Christian horsemen , covered with iron , and the best warriors in the world . |
| 16 | Indeed the Committee even extended this logic to a position whereby they felt themselves able to justify the decriminalisation of adult homosexual behaviour in private as a form of protection for the young : |
| 17 | That 's how they carried it out in the old days , in every quarry . |
| 18 | And anyway so we went to er over to Egypt and then it was when we came back and I I , the other morning on the radio they was talking about asking people to ring in about , I 've never rang in , I never bother ring , er how they spent their twenty first birthday . |
| 19 | In a recent survey approximately 100 solicitors were asked how they spent their time . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm looking at it all very positively , ’ she says , ‘ because auditing is n't for me anyway — and the partners knew that , which is how they chose who to make redundant . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , I know you 're on the Pill ; those condoms were planted on me , and God knows how they made their way under the linoleum in the upstairs closet . ’ |
| 22 | Thought of Miles and Miranda together at rehearsal came into her mind , and that made her feel , she could not quite analyse how they made her feel . |
| 23 | I think sometimes I ca n't help but think it 's how they made him in a way , you know , like I , you , sometimes your , I think you should sit down and play with something , but he wo n't sit quiet and amuse himself |
| 24 | How they made it safely I will never know . |
| 25 | And here 's how they made it to the semi-finals ; not an easy run , Wakefield was their last step . |
| 26 | Find out why men and women became pirates , where they operated and how they met their end . |
| 27 | A visit there on a warm , sunny afternoon yesterday , knowing something of how they met their end , made it easy to support the installation of a small plaque . |
| 28 | He remembers how people said he looked like a wild steer , gazing about on all sides , holding his head too high , and how they said his brain was buckish , and totally devoid of sober reasoning power . |
| 29 | He watched , aware of a whole vocabulary of gesture there in the dialogue between the two men : conscious not just of what they said but of how they said it ; how their eyes met or did not meet ; how a shared smile would suddenly reveal the depths of their mutual understanding . |
| 30 | ‘ I never heard what the teachers said , ’ she wrote , ‘ because I was always too busy watching how they said it . ’ |