Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's funny 'ow it managed to get under me hat . |
| 2 | ‘ Temporary ’ regulations of August 1881 — ultimately extended until the fall of the Empire — empowered the government to declare virtual martial law wherever and whenever it chose to do so . |
| 3 | Different though it is from the practical syllogism , it resembles it in that its conclusions are always revisable in the light of further information , which imposes itself as relevant whenever it does turn out to alter spontaneous reaction . |
| 4 | So , it 's vital to zap stress fast whenever it threatens to overwhelm you . |
| 5 | However , it seemed to flounder whenever it tried to pin multimedia down . |
| 6 | Vacuum at least once a week and shampoo whenever it starts to look grubby — probably once or twice a year . |
| 7 | I do n't know whereabouts it 's snapped . |
| 8 | We simply invited our readers to witness the process whereby it had done so . |
| 9 | Most recently , the company has concluded an agreement whereby it has become the exclusive installers for the American Decoturf range of tennis surfaces in the UK . |
| 10 | ‘ A week or so afterwards , not having heard any feedback from them , I rang the Blue Peter office to ask how it had gone , and I concluded by asking , only semi-seriously , what happened to my gold Blue Peter badge that Christopher Trace mentioned . |
| 11 | So just looking at that process , the process of making a piece of practical drama , whether it comes from text or not … the processes of assessment are very complex and far-reaching , and I think it would be very unreal to say that anybody could get to the end of that process without knowing very clearly what … the task had been , how they had approached it , how it had gone at the end really . |
| 12 | It was easy enough to imagine how it had gone . |
| 13 | Donna herself touched her lip tentatively with one finger , feeling how it had swollen . |
| 14 | It must have been painful to have a man you liked appropriated by a younger sister , McLeish thought , but this self-contained creature was not going to tell him — or possibly anyone else — how it had felt . |
| 15 | Robyn 's voice trailed away unhappily , as she remembered how it had felt to have him reject her . |
| 16 | Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction . |
| 17 | Historically , it was easy to see how it had arisen . |
| 18 | How it had progressed , when and how they had continued to meet , how it had ended , Domenica had n't confided . |
| 19 | How it had progressed , when and how they had continued to meet , how it had ended , Domenica had n't confided . |
| 20 | Round and round in her head had gone the memory of the evening , undoubtedly the most magical evening of her life , but tarnished now by the memory of how it had ended , with Guido 's crude brush-off and her belated realisation that he was in love with someone else . |
| 21 | She was n't even sure how it had found its way into the suitcase she packed for Wickrithe . |
| 22 | So that was how it had started . |
| 23 | He kept wondering how it had got Silk . |
| 24 | How it had got to London from Houston he did not know or want to know . |
| 25 | It was only now that it was over that she realised quite how it had got to her . |
| 26 | We wondered how it had got there . |
| 27 | But that 's how it had got to be in the early days , otherwise it would have cost more to run than I took . |
| 28 | The ratbird had already shaken many of my convictions regarding life on earth and how it had evolved . |
| 29 | Like a magician 's cabinet ( on which it was based ) , any Dalek going through its portal would cause a series of panels to flip round , thereby giving the impression it had vanished without it being obvious how it had vanished . |
| 30 | Later , over a cup of coffee backstage , Kylie talks frankly about homesickness and how it had taken her two years to adjust to life in England . |