Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] she [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | He turned around and stared at her with that insufferable thoroughness , which was downright rude , but about which she could n't complain . |
2 | She stood a better chance , she thought , upon her own : though a chance of what she would not have liked to have said . |
3 | Dr Neil turned away from inspecting his own bookshelves , said , apropos of what she could not imagine , ‘ You are not English , I perceive , Miss McAllister . ’ |
4 | But not with what she can not bear , she spawns |
5 | Faced now with the future upon which she dare not hazard herself , the other seemed suddenly quite possible . |
6 | High ladders from which she must not look down ? |
7 | It was n't only the money , but her library card , her family allowance book , the receipt from the repair shop without which she could n't get her watch back , creased photographs , with Edward 's own photograph among them , her address book , almost the whole sum of her identity . |
8 | Like her French contemporaries Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun or Adelaide Labille-Guiard , Angelica Kauffman was caught up in the contradictory politics of class and gender through the elite patronage without which she could not work . |
9 | Run from the ambitious young man who was her husband and who was bringing fear into her existence , a horrible fear to which she dare n't put a name and which had sprung into life a month ago . |
10 | There is also the question whether she made a decision which was limited in duration and to which she would not have adhered if she had been alerted to dangers of a refusal to accept blood transfusions or similar blood-based treatment . |
11 | Unless , like Chris Patten , she needed you for what she could n't do herself ( write a decent speech ) , any wet , however bright , was kippered on the back benches . |