Example sentences of "which she [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made three trips , each time carrying a pair of heavy jugs which she emptied into a small copper hip bath : and each time increasingly aware of and responding to the gauntlet of Hope 's lust . |
| 2 | The first time I visit the Ladies ' Pond , I exclaim to Kelly , ‘ It 's like a Fellini film , ’ to which she says in a lazy Scottish brogue , ‘ Perhaps … |
| 3 | She was always writing on little pieces of paper , which she kept in a locked drawer in her room , and every morning she got up surprisingly early to go down to the kitchen . |
| 4 | With guidance she picked a long , beaded dress with a side split and see-through sleeves , which she wore to a special anniversary dinner . |
| 5 | Her dark , grey-streaked hair , which she wore in a long bob , had been cut by Vidal Sassoon and she wore a beautifully tailored black suit relieved only by a little white flounce at the neckline . |
| 6 | Lady Miriam said the princess will unveil a special plaque to mark the opening of the new hospice , which she describes as a vital addition to health care facilities in the area . |
| 7 | But the welfare of home students , as they were known after 1889 , was her particular concern ; in 1894 she was appointed by the AEW as their principal , a post which she held on a voluntary basis until 1921 . |
| 8 | A dream in which she stood in a glorious , sweet-scented , flower-filled garden watching a tall , golden-haired man playing with beautiful blonde , blue-eyed children , all miniature replicas of himself . |
| 9 | Mrs Hill was a small , plump , middle-aged woman , with fine frizzy hair which she encased in a fine frizzy hair net ; she always wore a purple and blue flowered pinny , a garment more in keeping with an aunt or a cleaner than with a lover of science . |
| 10 | Annabel was determined to get a grip on herself and do as Scott advised : remember 1965 as the year she stopped having to go to auditions and 1966 as the year in which she blossomed into a successful young New York hostess as she met Andy Warhol , Lenny Bernstein , Baby Jane Holzer , and all the other gossip-columnist fodder . |
| 11 | At that moment his secretary came into the room with two cups of coffee , which she distributed in a pregnant silence , shooting curious , covert glances at each of them . |
| 12 | She made a major contribution to Macmillan London , which she leaves as a profitable and successful part of the group . ’ |
| 13 | Looking for Ianthe and Penelope , Sophia saw that they were deep in conversation , which she welcomed as a good sign . |
| 14 | Eleanor Rathbone identified the power that husbands derived from their breadwinner status as the ‘ Turk Complex ’ which she described in a biting passage : |