Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I went to Fisherton Street it was a must for me to go to Pickfords , the carriers for The Great Western Railway , just to gaze in the window , for right in the centre was a beautiful scale model of one of their pantechnicons , some two feet in length . |
| 2 | They were used to being the pet of the house , and so whenever I went to my uncles , both dogs never seemed to take their eyes off me and their big mouths were always gaping wide , showing long sharp teeth , and I knew fine they 'd like to sink them into me . |
| 3 | Whenever I return to Painswick , I seem to meet someone who remembers . |
| 4 | I also confirm Maxwell 's theory whenever I listen to my radio . |
| 5 | Now that I 'm famous , whenever I speak to my family , all they want is a signed photo for Enid or Ethel or someone at the office . |
| 6 | I cry whenever I go to the zoo . |
| 7 | But the bees not only knew the voice of their owner but also his particular smell : one bee-keeper told the writer : ‘ Whenever I go to the barber 's I 've always to tell him : ‘ Nothing on , thank you . ’ |
| 8 | they were just like the old fashioned kind and er we 've never been to Harrendle since and whenever I get to Harrendle I 'd get some more sausages . |
| 9 | And whenever I come to Moscow , like now , we always meet up why , I saw him only recently . |
| 10 | Whenever I drove to a hospital my question would not be whether there was a demonstration but how big . |
| 11 | Whenever I talk to groups of teachers who are willing for a moment to lay aside the grim realities and talk and think big , I hear them saying exactly the same . |
| 12 | I can close my eyes whenever I want to , and just see it : I 'll run and run to meet you , and hug you , and hold you close , and we 'll kiss and kiss and never stop … |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps when I get back to London I 'll invest in a pet , a dog , or maybe a cat , and then I can pour my heart out whenever I want to . ’ |
| 14 | The whenever I want to erm I want to buy ginger dry ginger to grate |
| 15 | The accomplice becomes an enemy , and in due course a victim , at which point he can only salute the irony of his being executed on All Souls , Day : ‘ This is the day wherein I wished to fall/By the false faith of him whom most I trusted ’ ( V.i . |
| 16 | ‘ I have no particular objection to the name John but I never use it and it is not how I like to be known . |
| 17 | because er well I er I , as I and I 've got young neighbours who I very seldom see because they are out at work er therefore I am quiet and that 's how I like to be |
| 18 | ‘ I wondered how I got to bed . ’ |
| 19 | And er , if I was to put entries all the way across the top of this spreadsheet like this , and then , all the way across the bottom of the spreadsheet , do you know how I got to the bottom so quickly , by the way ? |
| 20 | Some adolescents seemed concerned about a lack of knowledge or deficiency in Creole on their own part : For my English oral , last year , I had to read a Patois poem , so I aksed my mum to read it for me , and that 's how I got to , you know , sort of pick it up just for that poem … kept letting her read it over and over again till I get the sound . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps I should tell you a little about myself , Mrs Wilson , ’ he said when the maid had gone , ‘ … a little about my family and Elsie 's place in it and how I come to be looking for her after such a long time . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But , ’ she added , ‘ would you like me to tell you what I do and how I come to be here ? ’ |
| 23 | " I could do well , but I think how I related to people was as important as how well I did at school . |
| 24 | ‘ You know how I went to the Moon the other day . |
| 25 | That 's how I came to be stuck and sweating , 60 ′ above the boulders ; feet flapping , nose snorting , musty sandstone , fingernails smearing lichen and a jammed knot placed blindly in the dark , keeping it all together . |
| 26 | We had gone two or three miles when he asked me what I did and how I came to be hitch-hiking . |
| 27 | But I must first finish the tale of how I came to be here . |
| 28 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 29 | Whether it was advertised or what but how I came to be there I would n't know . |
| 30 | To pinch a famous phrase , the road from Edinburgh to Sarajevo is a long one , and I am not sure how I came to be on it . |