Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darren , at age 4 , had breath holding tantrums whenever he had to get dressed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In Brazil it had seemed easy to rush straight back into Tess 's loving arms whenever he chose to forgive her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Lukic , whenever he decided to do something with a cross , punched it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So whenever he tried to explain any musical idea he just could n't make his bands understand . |
| 10 | He was very weak and his body trembled and broke into sweats whenever he tried to sleep . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The whole puzzle became even more tantalising whenever he tried to fashion it into a poem . |
| 14 | The defendant in Breed v. Cluett ( 1970 D.C. ) entered a contract whereby he agreed to sell a bungalow . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ He said the surgeons asked him how he learnt to do such a good job and he said it was in the army . ’ |
| 18 | Maybe he 'll tell you how he gets to know about murders in the city before you do . ’ |
| 19 | 's bank in Catford was just one of 's targets , we do not know exactly how he managed to penetrate their security , but he was undoubtedly helped by the fact that his main business is debt collecting , and he numbers most of the big banks among his clients . |
| 20 | And er , then he would carry all your goods in , in , I used to think it was wonderful how he managed to pick them all up in his arms and he 'd walk round to the next counter where your other , you had your other dry goods you see , your tea and sugar and your fruit and er then it would all be totted up together . |
| 21 | on how he managed to give them up . |
| 22 | Hugh lay on his separate pillow ; it was strange , she often thought , how he managed to sleep without getting his hair untidy and his inert body showed no interest in her . |
| 23 | Local reporters were keen to know how he managed to carry out his civic duties , to which Mr Snyder replied blithely that fellow committee members sat beside him during screenings and gave a running commentary ‘ to fill me in when the screen goes silent ’ . |
| 24 | How he managed to live with all I had going against him was an East Yorkshire miracle . |
| 25 | How he managed to live with all I had going against him was an East Yorkshire miracle . |
| 26 | ‘ God knows how he managed to fall downstairs . |
| 27 | Between formal sessions I asked an amiable American academic precisely how he managed to familiarize his students with it , given the difficulty . |
| 28 | I asked Roger how he managed to establish this kind of control , to reproduce with twenty or more disruptive pupils the semblance of a ‘ model ’ lesson . |
| 29 | in the case of Dahl 's study of New Haven , the power of the mayor can only be assessed on the basis of his own particular preferences for urban development and how he managed to secure these preferences in the decision-making process . |
| 30 | Tax inspectors , who can already ask that bone-poor lawyer how he managed to afford a BMW and a five-bedroom house , may now also check his electricity bills and his credit-card spending ; one Santorini tourist shop turned out to have reported only a tenth of its credit-card takings . |