Example sentences of "[prep] which she [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Christina then became a self-employed economist-researcher after which she spent four years as the economics research officer for a major political party .
2 Then there had been another science during which she took periodical gulps of her tea and the sleeping baby stirred and gave small pig-like grunts .
3 Just before she left England for the travels during which she acquired this souvenir , Johnson tore up all her letters in his anger at her marriage with the Italian musician Gabriele Piozzi .
4 In 1657 in Marlborough she attempted to speak in the church following the service , was attacked , brought before a magistrate , and imprisoned for six weeks , during which she fasted six days .
5 Her former Special Adviser , Patrick Cosgrave , recounts how there were only two areas for which she had any respect :
6 Experts are still attempting to establish what caused the filly to test positive to a banned substance after her 40-length defeat by Indian Quest at Kempton last month , for which she started 6-4 favourite .
7 After her husband 's death in 1947 she co-founded the Albert Howard Foundation , which in 1953 merged with the Soil Association , of which she became honorary life vice-president .
8 In recording life on board troopship , which she noted mainly in very quick sketches of which she has special mastery , Linda Kitson noted the macabre elements of military training and equipment against the cushioned setting of a luxury liner ; for example , the Rudolf Steiner Hair Salon , which housed the signals squadron .
9 In recording life on board troopship , which she noted mainly in very quick sketches of which she has special mastery , Linda Kitson noted the macabre elements of military training and equipment against the cushioned setting of a luxury liner ; for example , the Rudolf Steiner Hair Salon , which housed the signals squadron .
10 She held various responsible and stressful secretarial posts in education , from the last of which she resigned last September suffering from acute exhaustion .
11 Ms Fahey departed from her employment in the Decca Records press office in order to become a co-founder of the seminal trio , Bananarama , with which she enjoyed multiple success ‘ singer ’ lieder such as ‘ Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye ’ and ‘ Robert De Niro 's Waiting ’ .
12 The series , in which she plays tough-talking Tessa , opposite millionaire boyfriend Adam Faith , has been a smash hit with viewers , attracting an audience of more than 10 million .
13 From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design .
14 Kollwitz ‘ diary consisted of ten books in which she wrote detailed accounts of her artistic practice and other experiences .
15 His decision was prompted by Mrs Thatcher 's vehemently expressed opposition to proposals for monetary union at a recent European Community summit in Rome and a strident populist performance in Parliament in which she displayed considerable hostility to the idea of European integration .
16 We were showing a Jessie Matthews film called Evergreen , one of her first films , in which she wore long silk stockings .
17 Cruzan , 33 , had been in an irreversible coma since a 1983 car accident in which she suffered severe brain damage .
18 Her duty — a duty in which she took consummate pride — was to ensure the smooth running of The Tamarisks .
19 It also contained the piece of furniture in which she took most pride — a Victorian brass bed that she polished lovingly every three months .
20 If the process of nursing is seen as a problem-solving activity in which the nurse acts on her own initiative generating her own solutions , rather than one in which she repeats ready-made solutions ; and if the reasoning of the cognition theorists is accepted as valid ; then the teaching of nursing should be organised in such a way that the student not only acquires the necessary knowledge and skills , but does so in such a way that they develop in her flexible cognitive structures .
21 For ten years , from the time she arrived in France — after a journey in which she showed considerable enthusiasm for the new life to which she was going , and very little sign of regret about leaving her country , let alone her ‘ dearest mother ’ ( in contrast to Mary of Guise 's grief ) — until her marriage , she was the fêted darling of the French court .
22 She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places …
23 The major underlying issues for Joanne and for the department in which she works concerned teaching methods and the distinction between content and process in mathematics .
24 THE VISIT by Mother Teresa to Ireland is going ahead — but is expected to be scaled down because of her recent fall in which she broke three ribs .
25 The former result supports similar findings by other investigators ( Oscar-Berman , Goodglass and Cherlow , 1973 ; Turvey , 1973 ; McKeever and Suberi , 1974 ; Ward and Ross , 1977 ) while the latter finding is consistent with the results of another experiment by Cohen in which she used different cues and a different task ( Cohen , 1975b ) .
26 There was always schoolteaching , of course , but that would entail the tiresome business of acquiring a Postgraduate Certificate of Education , or else working in the independent sector , to which she had ideological objections .
27 Wardle Wood bordered the lane between her home and Fordbridge , to which she cycled each Friday to the meeting of the 2nd Fordbridge Brownie Guide Pack .
28 Her later research in this area involved a long study of the complex genetic interactions in Matthiola incana , on which she published twenty-two papers .
29 ‘ The biggest mystery is why she gave up photography , at which she showed such flair , in 1923 , ’ says Sue .
30 For Celia Fiennes , a few years later , it was a favourite town by which she judged all others — and generally found them wanting .
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