Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [Wh det] she [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firelight was conspicuously much less nervous , and when it came to the riding she did for Nails what she would do for none of the others , even Nutty . |
| 2 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |
| 3 | Viewers , touched by her life , sent gifts of money which she used to buy not comforts for herself but more cows , and that meant more crippling winter work . |
| 4 | Like Aurangzeb , she controlled a network of spies which she used to keep her brother well in touch with developments in the court . |
| 5 | Beyond this there was little of importance which she could tell and Dalgliesh had briefly heard her story and let her go . |
| 6 | She would often pick up finger foods and eat them , but only in small quantities , and developed a preference for lumps of butter which she would eat in her fingers . |
| 7 | She had a tin of photographs which she would browse through , reminding herself that life had not always been so humdrum . |
| 8 | Another part of him — not a customs officer — told him that guilty people were dangerous , and he wondered in panic what she would do . |
| 9 | She picked up the receiver without planning what she would say . |