Example sentences of "which she [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She would ‘ have to make a very special effort ’ to build the links with other professionals — GPs , the police , consultants and others on which she had barely had time to start in the five months she was there .
2 She was absorbedly prodding the aged melon , which she had somehow got hold of .
3 The conventions prevented her from heaping any further abuse on Chay Bank , a housing project which she had frequently and loudly denounced , but near which she had never set foot : the precariousness of her own social position would forever prevent her from visiting Fred Bowen , and this yearly ritual meeting on neutral ground was as much as she would ever dare risk .
4 He took her , or began to , in the direct , unsentimental manner in which she had always understood men took their whores , hurting her slightly not from any particular roughness on his part but because her body had turned dry with protest , resisting him as her supple mind did not .
5 She is observing the Coroner now with that same surreptitious brooding care with which she had once watched Millie and me from her kitchen window , as we stood talking , or not talking , at the gate .
6 Details of yesterday 's court order were not made public , but it has been reported that Miss Bonham-Carter has provided the court with a map with a red line marking an area of several hundred yards around her house which she did not want Mr Farquharson to enter .
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