Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no certainty either as to where he wrote his main English works : the treatise known as Mixed Life , giving advice to the upmarket man of affairs who also wished to create opportunities to cultivate his inner spiritual life ( one manuscript describes it as " a luitel Boc was writen to a worldli lord to teche him hou he schulde haue him in his state in ordeynd loue to god and to his euencristene " ) , and the two books of The Scale of Perfection . |
| 2 | Whenever I could afford it you know , but erm , there was n't so much money in those days I ca n't remember exactly how much we , we used to get in for coppers you know . |
| 3 | I 'm no expert , but I love to have huge displays whenever I can afford them , ’ says Clarissa . |
| 4 | Here he is , at the outset , reporting from Brussels : ‘ You must not imagine that I live richly here , for my chief food is dry bread and some potatoes or chestnuts which people here sell on the street corner , but by having a somewhat better room and by occasionally taking a somewhat better meal in a restaurant whenever I can afford it , I shall get on very well … . |
| 5 | Whenever I 'd ask them what they wanted to eat the reply was always the same : ‘ Anything , you choose , Mum ’ . |
| 6 | Oh I 'd let them come , I 'd let them come whenever you can get them cos we 've got so many of them it 's |
| 7 | Although she snatched a moment whenever she could to telephone her much missed family , ‘ you could feel her disappointments , her lack of freedom . |
| 8 | Whenever she could afford it Nina tried to buy one of his drawings , but most of the artists thought he was simply a nuisance and told her she was wasting her money . |
| 9 | ‘ … it will be a great thing not to have to depend on the fickle wind for making a passage , and still more to know that we may pounce down upon those rascally fast-sailing dhows whenever we can sight them in a calm , and be sure of overtaking them … ’ |
| 10 | So we 've got to the situation then where erm we are making sure that nobody is gon na put us in a position whereby they can cause us problems . |
| 11 | She cleaned up the room , did not even hear his curses , and thought how nothing could affect her any longer . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know how I dare confess it after that meal last night , but yes , ’ she admitted , privately thinking that in casual trousers , shirt and sweater Ven was certainly a man to make one 's pulses race . |
| 13 | How I shall consider it . |
| 14 | He thought : I believe that this is how I shall remember her when it is over , as over it will surely be sooner or later . |
| 15 | ‘ Until I see the entire Argentine line-up , ’ he said , ‘ how can I possibly know how I shall mark him ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Until I see the entire Argentine line-up , ’ he said , ‘ how can I possibly know how I shall mark him ? ’ |
| 17 | For years I cut the grass — and living on water , grass grows at a prodigious and unnatural rate — and while doing so spent hundreds of man hours considering how I might stop it growing . |
| 18 | Can you suggest how I might persuade it to stay in one place ? |
| 19 | I do n't know how I 'll do it , but I will . " |
| 20 | I don t know yet how I 'll manage it , but I 'll be here . |
| 21 | On the contrary , I am wondering how I may reward you … |
| 22 | ‘ I know not how I may repay you . ’ |
| 23 | It is sometimes easier to proceed on the basis of : ‘ If I were doing the job this is how I would do it ’ , but this can be delusory even for analysts who have past experience as operators . |
| 24 | So you 're not writing an essay , what you 're doing is saying , well if this question came up , this is how I would answer it , then what I will do is give you feedback there and then on wh what else you can include and what else you ca n't . |
| 25 | How I would classify them . |
| 26 | Were observant I knew to see how I would take it . |
| 27 | I reach for the dictionary when I want to know how I should use it . |
| 28 | The problem I 've got is is er I know what I want to do and you told me what are doing , so from that I have a good picture of what how I should approach it . |
| 29 | Frank came up to me and started telling me how I should run it . |
| 30 | Even if I did , I do n't see how I could silence her . |