Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne Marie Phillips fought back tears as she told how she had repeatedly warned staff at the Royal Maternity Hospital that she ‘ did not like the look of the baby 's belly button ’ , which was swollen and discoloured . |
| 2 | She told Maggie about Betty Gilling and Peg Wooldridge , and how she had almost persuaded Nahum to adopt Corrie . |
| 3 | They were the reasons why she had never wanted children . |
| 4 | She stared at the golden eagle , so arrogantly and eternally poised , and wondered why she had ever thought birds on furniture were a bit off : why had she never bothered to look , why had she never asked herself what her eyes had told her ? |
| 5 | With a last dissatisfied glance in the mirror , she left the bedroom and made her way downstairs , vaguely wondering why she did n't feel light of heart . |
| 6 | People who asked her why she did n't make use of her talent and give singing lessons had perhaps not tried to do this while living in two rooms over a greengrocers , and looking after young children . |
| 7 | Since that day when she had ruthlessly cut Jake from her heart there had been no one . |
| 8 | About nine o'clock on that same evening , she was in her front garden watering her plants when she looked up to see Jenny and Paul advancing down the path . |
| 9 | There were times when she did n't mind Star 's anger , times even when she deliberately provoked it , waiting with half-shameful excitement for the extra-ordinary outburst of bitterness and despair of which she herself was less a victim than a privileged spectator , relishing even more the inevitable remorse and self-incrimination , the sweetness of reconciliation . |
| 10 | Rain passed them , looking in shop windows where she had previously admired goods . |