Example sentences of "that whatever [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was beginning to realise that whatever Lydia felt for Beuno was different in kind from what she had felt for Finn , and this had eased her incipient unhappiness , for while it is one thing not to win the beloved it is another to see him swept off by somebody else , and far , far worse . |
| 2 | From these bits of activity , a richer life could develop ; but it is vital that whatever Harry and Elizabeth choose is something they both really want to do and not a situation where she goes along with it in a patronising way , and then leaves him high and dry . |
| 3 | What I do know is that whatever Mario says ( ‘ I do n't think he was too unhappy about it ’ ) or Colin thought ( ‘ The atmosphere within the team was the happiest I can remember ’ ) , that was not the way Ronnie saw it . |
| 4 | Later ages have tended to magnify the importance of those thinkers and poets who disagreed ; there is no reason to think that the young Wordsworth would have taken any notice of them ; he believed with his University that whatever Newton said , was right . |
| 5 | But his , his but basically his behaviour is that you , you can tell the way he reacts , you know he gets like really het up and really excited , you can tell that whatever Alfiera 's gon na say it 's not gon na really gon na make much difference . |
| 6 | In view of that , did not the Secretary of State pause to conclude that whatever NATO may require , there is no requirement for the United Kingdom to have its own tactical air-to-surface missile ? |
| 7 | She adds : ‘ You would n't castigate the British servicemen who appeared on the television during the Gulf war and said that whatever Saddam Hussein did was good and whatever the Allies did was bad . |
| 8 | And the sketches and the readings take , er take us all through literature from the eighteenth century to present day , and they , they 're just readings and sketches from that , which I do n't , I have n't actually seen it and I do n't know what it 's going to be , but I 've every confidence that whatever Edward Fox , Dorothy Tutin and Freddie Jones do , it will be quite superb in these events |
| 9 | She knew that whatever Margaret got she would make sure Maura got it back one hundredfold . |
| 10 | Second , he refused to transfer all metropolitan authority in the southern province to London on the grounds that whatever Gregory 's original intentions , Canterbury now possessed the primacy by ancient right . |
| 11 | And sometimes she thought that whatever Leo said , she nonetheless preferred her quiet evenings with her father or her outings with Thomas . |
| 12 | Now , that is a terrible thing , because it means that whatever Mr Hussein has done , he has also in fact , written the death sentence for millions of children who will never have heard of him . |
| 13 | Irigaray points out that whatever Freud may say , women in fact possess sex organs of their own — they are different , but not opposite , to men 's . |
| 14 | Or consider rhetorical questions like ( 36 ) : ( 36 ) Was Mussolini going to be moderate ? which if the participants believe that whatever Mussolini was , he was not moderate , is likely to convey ( 37 ) : ( 37 ) Mussolini was definitely not going to be moderate Here , by overtly violating the sincerity of a question , once again an implicature is generated by a flouting of the maxim of Quality . |