I. determiner
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
however/whatever etc you please
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You can spend the money however you please.
whatever happens
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We’ll still be friends, whatever happens .
whatever/anything you want
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Now he can do whatever he wants.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
anything/whatever you say
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"I want fifty copies of this by 3:00." "Anything you say , Mrs. DeVere."
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Both Dames Elizabeth and Martha were deaf, so whatever you said or how you said it would not cause any alarm.
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But children know that parents are anxious whatever they say .
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Her one, clear thought was that, whatever he said , she would not be convinced by him.
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I know that I had no intention of stopping the procedure, whatever anyone said or did to influence me.
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If you are a teacher I do not ask you to believe or take on trust anything I say .
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She opened her mouth and then closed it again, because, whatever she said , he would have a patient answer.
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There's something baldly there about him which inclines me, like Kevin, to distrust anything he says .
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Zsa Zsa was enchanting - whatever I said to her, she'd just giggle and become even more indiscreet.
what became of ...?/whatever will become of ...?
whatever floats your boat
whatever happened to sb/sth?
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But I sometimes wonder whatever happened to that little Mr Linley.
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For them, energy comes in joules, and force in newtons, but whatever happened to ergs and dynes?
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Gee, George, whatever happened to letting the people decide?
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He believed that Money Advice was here to stay, whatever happened to the economy.
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Night-thoughts ... But then whatever happened to Summerchild did happen.
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So whatever happened to Open Standards?
whatever/wherever/anything etc you like
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Down the golden road, London and the world, life, whatever you like .
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I said they can call themselves anything they like , and I would still not engage one.
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I wished I could go back to the other way, when we could just do whatever we liked .
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Once you're online, you can use whatever you like .
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That is to say put anything you like on them, but don t be surprised if some one else reads them.
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They can do whatever they like provided that it is what the Treasury has already agreed.
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We can ask him whatever we like .
II. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
happen
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The energy trickling through was her only comfort, the knowledge that whatever happened would only be the pain of mortal flesh.
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Paula Jones, whatever happened between you and the governor, you never had a chance.
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Gee, George, whatever happened to letting the people decide?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She gave no sign whatever of what she was thinking.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It's just that it shows no sign whatever of happening.
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My life has been so short that I really know nothing whatever .