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Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	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 .
2	I 'm no expert , but I love to have huge displays whenever I can afford them , ’ says Clarissa .
3	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 … .
4	Whenever I 'd ask them what they wanted to eat the reply was always the same : ‘ Anything , you choose , Mum ’ .
5	‘ 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 .
6	How I shall consider it .
7	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 .
8	‘ Until I see the entire Argentine line-up , ’ he said , ‘ how can I possibly know how I shall mark him ? ’
9	‘ Until I see the entire Argentine line-up , ’ he said , ‘ how can I possibly know how I shall mark him ? ’
10	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 .
11	Can you suggest how I might persuade it to stay in one place ?
12	I do n't know how I 'll do it , but I will . "
13	I don t know yet how I 'll manage it , but I 'll be here .
14	On the contrary , I am wondering how I may reward you …
15	‘ I know not how I may repay you . ’
16	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 .
17	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 .
18	How I would classify them .
19	Were observant I knew to see how I would take it .
20	I reach for the dictionary when I want to know how I should use it .
21	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 .
22	Frank came up to me and started telling me how I should run it .
23	Even if I did , I do n't see how I could silence her .
24	‘ I knew how I could make you feel , ’ he corrected , ‘ but there 's a great deal of difference between bodily chemistry and love .
25	the was that the first one was was more or less science orientated an I I , I looked at it and thought how how I could how I could make it such that it was common
26	He said he had always known politics was a dirty game and he could not understand how I could endure it .
27	But this did not mean I was happy with it , or knew , precisely , when and how I could carry it out .
28	I wish I could suggest a meeting before I go , but it 's all happened so suddenly I just ca n't see how I could fit it in .
29	But I expect that you all want to know how I could do it — how I could have walked in and scooped up this yummy young man from the arms of his loving and lawful wife .
30	God knows how much there still is down there ; I 've seen great stacks and bales of it still with the Royal Navy markings on it , and I 've dreamed up any number of ways of getting at it , but short of tunnelling in from the shed and taking the cordite out from the back , so that the bales looked untouched from the inside of the cellar , I do n't see how I could do it .