Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed . |
| 2 | Darren , at age 4 , had breath holding tantrums whenever he had to get dressed . |
| 3 | Whenever he had happened to notice devotional vids , he had presumed that the Space Marines recruited exceptional adult fighters , not … he swallowed his pride … not boys . |
| 4 | She was more bothered than ever , for Timothy 's eyes had a dreamy look which she 'd never seen in them before , and he 'd lingered over the girl 's name whenever he had used it . |
| 5 | McAllister , still beset by that strange mixture of desire and fear which gripped her whenever he began to make love to her at even the lightest level , found herself shivering , but allowed him to continue , and when the next kiss found her lips she responded to him , timidly , it was true , but still a response . |
| 6 | He always sort of backpedalled whenever he 'd exposed his feelings . ’ |
| 7 | In Brazil it had seemed easy to rush straight back into Tess 's loving arms whenever he chose to forgive her . |
| 8 | On the other hand , he had the last word whenever he cared to have it , not just on foreign or defence policy but on any aspect of policy . |
| 9 | Lukic , whenever he decided to do something with a cross , punched it . |
| 10 | They have followed each other up the ladder , but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better . |
| 11 | Seldom has Philippe Chatrier , a man renowned for his forthright views , especially whenever he has felt the advancement or the image of tennis was at risk , been quite so outspokenly blunt , as in his final Presidential newsletter he issued before ending his 14 year reign in charge ( which & referred to in last month 's column ) at The International Tennis Federation . |
| 12 | Yet whenever he has steered in the defence trials , his helmsmanship has proved deficient . |
| 13 | In the past , whenever he has erred on the side of too much order , the judgment inside the Soviet Union and outside has been that ‘ Gorbachev is as good as we 'll get ’ . |
| 14 | Followers of Gandhi explicitly maintain that he was essentially a practical man with no concern for metaphysics or philosophical speculation , yet it is clear that whenever he attempted to explain what he meant by Truth he was involved in metaphysical speculation whether he or his followers realized it or not . |
| 15 | A title for Jim Molyneaux has been speculated upon — it will fall in his lap whenever he wants to retire — but certainly the Government is not likely to offend unionist sensibilities for a time at least . |
| 16 | Since the intra-verbal support of the infinitive is a general virtual person , the speaker must also conceive the actual support to which the infinitive 's event is incident and the relation in time between the virtual and actual persons whenever he wants to use this verb form . |
| 17 | From the customer 's point of view , buying now on credit does save any increase in price that would take place between now and ( say ) whenever he finishes paying off the loan . |
| 18 | In short , he had developed a habit of increasing muscular tension whenever he started reciting . |
| 19 | He had decided that it was time to think things through and settle them once and for all , but whenever he started thinking about Zeinab thoughts became memories of touch and smell and look and emotion and he became most unsettled . |
| 20 | So whenever he tried to explain any musical idea he just could n't make his bands understand . |
| 21 | He was very weak and his body trembled and broke into sweats whenever he tried to sleep . |
| 22 | His fingers would bend and there was still some strength in them , but his palm would n't uncurl and the tendons to his thumb had become shortened , giving him problems whenever he tried to pick anything up . |
| 23 | Whenever he tried to go home the old woman would throw a magic ball of thread into his boat and draw him back to shore . |
| 24 | The whole puzzle became even more tantalising whenever he tried to fashion it into a poem . |
| 25 | At the sight of his mutilated photo-pass , the Croatians summoned , after some comment between themselves , a senior officer , who listened with growing impatience to Swan 's explanation as to the means whereby he had come by it . |
| 26 | and Kaplan J. ) [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 given on 15 March 1991 allowing an appeal by the taxpayer , HK-TVB International Ltd. , from the order of Godfrey J. made on 9 April 1990 in the High Court whereby he had allowed an appeal by the commissioner by way of case stated from the decision of the Board of Review that the relevant profits for the years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 inclusive did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 27 | The defendant in Breed v. Cluett ( 1970 D.C. ) entered a contract whereby he agreed to sell a bungalow . |
| 28 | Alan Fiers , 52 , who headed the CIA 's Central American Task Force in 1984-88 , reached a plea bargain arrangement with Walsh whereby he promised to co-operate with the investigation in return for pleading guilty to lesser charges . |
| 29 | ‘ For instance , if someone had n't heard from a man friend for — oh , for a couple of weeks or so-when he 'd said vaguely he 'd ring — I mean , she might wonder if there was something wrong , if he was ill , or if she 'd offended in some way . |
| 30 | In 1970 , the manager of professional and commercial training at the Ford Motor Co. , offering a ‘ consumer 's view ’ of the polytechnics , described how he began to consider ‘ the use of polytechnics ’ when even the CNAA was new . |