Example sentences of "by [Wh det] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later the legends and stories with which she had grown up would be added to them — stories of astonishing miracles and heroic adventures , by which she and her father , Solomon Klinitsky-Klein — whose influence on Leonard should not be overlooked — fired his imagination and stimulated his ideas . |
| 2 | Indeed , Leonard can only recall a volume of the Russian writer Gogol on her shelf , by which she presumably kept in touch with her own more distant — if painful — affiliations , though influencing Leonard , perhaps , unconsciously , with Gogol 's sense of fantasy and comic genius — as well as his need to travel . ) |
| 3 | He joined her in the kitchen , and she saw that the descriptions which had reached her through the field telegraph and by which she had recognised him , were accurate . |
| 4 | It was expected from her young people , by which she really meant her customers . |
| 5 | It will help her attract support for the Thatcher Foundation — the means by which she hopes to preserve her legacy . |
| 6 | ‘ Personal self-denial for the good of others was the first important lesson Annie learned , ’ says Taylor , ‘ and it was a principle by which she stood for the rest of her life . ’ |
| 7 | Ardent supporters and a number of ministers applauded her resolve , stressing the narrowness of the margin by which she had failed to achieve an outright win ( blaming the complicated election rules for the stalemate ) , and expressed full confidence in victory in the second ballot . |
| 8 | Her great deception , that cruel triumphant power by which she held her husband trapped and blinded , was held in tension between the constant possibility of a devastating revelation , and the equal prospect of an indefinitely continued impersonation of a kind of moral perfection . |
| 9 | Jenny saw one way by which she could reach and stop Miss Clinton before either of them — if she had the pluck . |
| 10 | These are the gospel by which she lives . |
| 11 | Her humble beginnings , the magical means by which she had come to share her half-sister 's privileged life and had later by the queen-dowager 's design taken her place , had been part of some pre-ordained plan . |
| 12 | Rufus took her £40 off her by the reception desk , having set in train the arrangements by which she would be admitted to a fashionable West End clinic , with Rufus , her surgery and her hospitalization ultimately paid for by some provident association to which she and her husband subscribed . |
| 13 | She had her own yardstick by which she measured complaints as either trivial or needing attention . |
| 14 | These outcries became her trademark , by which she was known everywhere she went . |
| 15 | She did manage to read some smuggled cuttings about the fraud case , by which she was not impressed . |
| 16 | In The Young Stepmother ( 1861 ) Charlotte M. Yonge represents Mr Kendal as a positive recluse within his study ; and even when his lively second wife contrives to drive him out of it into her morning-room , she has to prevent him from turning that room too into a ‘ literal boudoir ’ , by which she seems to mean ‘ a place to sulk in ’ . |
| 17 | For Celia Fiennes , a few years later , it was a favourite town by which she judged all others — and generally found them wanting . |
| 18 | The mother by this time had not acted upon the terms of the ‘ settlement , ’ as it had been termed , by which she had undertaken to commence divorce proceedings . |
| 19 | She rewrote their homework in respectable English but appeared , at that time , not to have inherited the family teaching compulsion , and was unable to explain the principle by which she was altering their grammar and syntax . |
| 20 | Having lost some of the true Christian Scientist 's sanguinity about money and the faith that good Scientists should be able to demonstrate prosperity , she suggested faintly that Harriet had better take a secretarial course and equip herself to earn what she called a hat allowance , by which she meant a living . |
| 21 | After the war it became clear to her that the one heroic thing she was even faintly equipped to do with her life was to teach herself to die honourably , by which she meant without fear . |
| 22 | She can not abjure , give up , control the force by which she is possessed . |
| 23 | She thrust the exercise book into a coat pocket and scrambled to the window by which she had entered . |
| 24 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 25 | Between The Colossus and the end of her life less than three years later , Sylvia Plath wrote the poems ( well over a hundred were written during this period ) by which she is chiefly remembered . |
| 26 | It was Wilde who christened her the ‘ Sphinx ’ , the name by which she was thereafter known to her friends . |
| 27 | Her first detective novel , The Man in the Queue , a highly accomplished piece of a work for a novice hand , was published in 1929 under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot — the name by which she preferred to be known , in both public and private — though for her seven other works in this genre she took the name Josephine Tey . |
| 28 | But the door by which she had entered was not the only way out . |
| 29 | Made some sort of mark by which she could be remembered . |
| 30 | The balance has tipped too far in the other direction : instead of ignoring her sexuality , Christabel is now dominated by it , and so the creative process by which she should have been psychologically fulfilled has not worked . |