Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh adv] [adv] she " in BNC.

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1 I 'm eight and a half years old and disgusted that my mother has to come with me to see A Hard Day 's Night when usually she just sees me to the edge of the estate and across the main road .
2 His wife has even closer links with farming , She is the daughter of an arable farmer situated well south of Teesdale , in an area where both she and her husband were born and brought up .
3 Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas .
4 But she would often tell friends how keenly she felt a responsibility not just for her employees ' jobs , but for their health , their mortgages , their children 's educations and the entire survival of the rural community in Carno .
5 She had no idea of course how frequently she might bump into Ven in the short while in which she shared his suite .
6 Those letters would be bound to point out to Gina how badly she 'd treated him , telling her to reform and to save her marriage if they were religious , or else saying that she deserved it if he got someone else .
7 A baby within it is in no danger of being thrown out no matter how energetically she bounces .
8 She was alone in the house with Julius , and no one was going to come hurrying to her rescue , no matter how loudly she shouted .
9 There was a slow sensuous laziness to his movements contradicted by the dangerously hard angles of his face , the flashing darkness of his eyes which no matter how covertly she looked at him seemed to be gazing at her .
10 She had a string of boyfriends and no matter how badly she treated them there were always others lined up and waiting .
11 No matter how often she sunbathed , her skin was always very white .
12 That accusation was like a blow to the midriff , still as hurtful as ever , no matter how often she heard it .
13 But she remained amiable no matter how much she was provoked , and each day she gained a little more confidence .
14 But no matter how much she tried she could not prevent the shift in perceptions towards her .
15 And he would n't explain that remark , no matter how much she pestered him .
16 There was no way now that Fenella was going to get my body no matter how much she begged , not as long as Lisabeth was on same continent .
17 But , no matter how much she wished to avoid returning to Mariánské Láznë , the answer kept coming back again and again that that was her only option .
18 But it was too late ; large tears rolled down her cheeks and , no matter how swiftly she swiped them away and pretended they were n't there , they just kept on coming .
19 When pouring , it had been impossible to line up the bottles with the glasses , no matter how close she held the neck of a bottle to the rim of a glass .
20 No matter how hard she protested that The Delinquents was not soft porn , the film transformed her into the sex-siren she secretly desired to become .
21 The world , thought Wilson that night , was crumbling around her no matter how hard she tried .
22 No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ?
23 But as yet no genie had materialised , no matter how hard she metaphorically rubbed the magic lamp .
24 But because of the storm the hatches had been battened down and no matter how hard she searched she could not find a way out of the hold .
25 The door would n't open , no matter how hard she shoved .
26 Beside him , Melanie was acutely conscious of her clumsy hands and the long legs she could not arrange elegantly , no matter how hard she tried .
27 She swayed to and fro ; she almost slipped down onto the ground beside the dead queen in the mud but Finn kept hold of her no matter how hard she struck at him , lightly clasping her shoulders so that she would not fall .
28 The bride herself remaining calm throughout , her mother , who had prayed so ardently for this day , finding herself utterly overcome by it ; having slept not a wink , of course , the night before and melting into tears — of anxiety , of joy , of overwrought nerves — the moment she got out of bed ; unable , no matter how hard she tried , to do her own soft , fair hair to her satisfaction and suffering a sudden and quite dreadful conviction that the powder-blue taffeta she had ordered from Miss Ernestine Baker was somehow not right .
29 She possessed a vivid imagination , but somehow , no matter how hard she tried , she could not envisage herself ever calling this man Alexander .
30 But what made her feel even guiltier was the simple fact that , somehow , no matter how hard she tried , she could n't imagine Arnie lying with her in the big blue bed .
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