Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I ran into him he would ask , ‘ Seen Hornbaker yet ? ’ |
| 2 | But I blamed my body for what had happened , I hated it , I hated having breasts , I thought my body was saying : Hey , here I am , come and get me ! and I was terrified whenever I walked down the street . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | at home with my family , whenever I went on the H R T everything changed ! |
| 6 | When I was younger , I was always terrified whenever I thought of people breaking into our house . |
| 7 | Whenever I played with other children it flew after me . |
| 8 | It was probably some arrangement of S– and R — 's , but whenever I came into a room where they were , they trickled out ! |
| 9 | Whenever I drove to a hospital my question would not be whether there was a demonstration but how big . |
| 10 | She was a kind woman and whenever I called with a message she would sit me down and fetch me a biscuit or a glass of milk . |
| 11 | Whether as Minister for Aviation or as Minister for Coal and Electricity , I had the same experience whenever I arrived at a meeting of the Council of Ministers . |
| 12 | It was easy for me to summon up this everyday vision , because whenever I sat on the toilet the hem was stretched between my calves , and if I leant forward it was always the salient object in my view . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A mother-in-law ( that 's how I thought about her already ) , a French mother-in-law who 's been deserted by an Englishman now being introduced by her daughter to the Englishman she wants to marry ? |
| 15 | Was that how I thought of it now — the Bible Room and the Wheel Room , the stairs and turret ? |
| 16 | Ernest , Alfred , Louis , Max : the band of students , that was how I thought of them . |
| 17 | But then I was reminded how I thought of a an accountant who was at work what figure was five and five and he said what figures did you have in mind . |
| 18 | I have described how I looked in the mirror and , seeing myself ‘ in the flesh ’ did not recognise myself . |
| 19 | That evening he came to my room , to see how I looked in my new nightdress . |
| 20 | I do n't know how I got through myself , because I was no good at school . ’ |
| 21 | So it 's like , ‘ Who is this guy ? ’ and that 's how I got into Van Halen . |
| 22 | So that 's how I got into it , really . |
| 23 | I ca n't really answer how I got into it , me , I got three big brothers so , maybe that 's got part to do with it . |
| 24 | That 's how I got into it that 's for sure . |
| 25 | Well actually how I got into it was I was idle at the time and er my two chums were French polishers and as I 've said and they said , Er now would you like to come in and try it ? |
| 26 | ‘ I wondered how I got to bed . ’ |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I do n't know how I got in there . |
| 30 | " I could do well , but I think how I related to people was as important as how well I did at school . |