Example sentences of "what she [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would raise her hand to gain his attention and then use a biro to punctuate what she said with a series of invisible bullet points . |
| 2 | She fought free , but she had no time to tell him just what she thought of a man who would play one sister against the other before Dana was in the room . |
| 3 | Course Moira always has had a vivid imagination , you have to take what she says with a pinch of salt . |
| 4 | Er i she was in the Cheltenh Do you know what she does for a living ? |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm only interested in who she is , an' what she does for a livin' , ’ she said sharply . |
| 6 | I could never cram in what she does in a day ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I can do in a day what she does in a week , ’ she said , shaking her duster out of the window on to the roses below . |
| 8 | Which of course he could not — not the physical thing ; she knew that what she felt as a warmth of affection was experienced by him as a demand for that . |
| 9 | Whatever it was , it was n't what she expected from a man . |
| 10 | She responds to a comment by the monk on how she appears to have passed the night in sexual " labour " by bemoaning what she suffers as a wife , implying that her husband gives her no pleasure in bed and is mean with his money . |
| 11 | When one caller transgresses this line of demarcation , asking the presenter Dolores what she thinks of a terrorists ' kidnapping , she replies ‘ That would be a little outside the scope of this programme Charlie , there 'll be experts commenting again in the morning to tell you what to think of it , why do n't you talk to me about yourself … ’ ( 80 ) . |
| 12 | Do you know what she did for a living ? |
| 13 | Owing to what she sees as a lack of gratitude , she threatens to refuse to continue with the caring tasks . |
| 14 | Perhaps I could have tried harder to be what she wanted in a daughter-in-law . |