Example sentences of "[noun] what she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth took a deep breath and summoned all her courage to put into words what she had decided after her sleepless night at Mrs Taylor 's . |
| 2 | But she could not express in words what she saw in her head . |
| 3 | Briefly she told David what she wanted and he nodded towards his open case . |
| 4 | It was her habit after the lecture on the theory of economics , which she found particularly intractable as a subject , to take her notes ( she was a sparse but efficient notetaker ) to a quiet table by the window , drink some coffee and study what she had written down . |
| 5 | In my class of infants , a little five-year-old girl was busy drawing what she told me was a ‘ picture of God ’ . |
| 6 | She had replayed in her mind what she had overheard , over and over again , and each time she tried to ignore his words at the end . |
| 7 | I 'll pu I 'll nip down to see Pat and ask Pat what she thinks I should do . |
| 8 | Yet in essence what she said was always the same . |
| 9 | Naturally , Mother began to put into practice what she had learned at Helmsley . |
| 10 | But then there was that day she gave me the brooch what she said I was n't never to forget . |
| 11 | just think it 's heights of bad manners what she 's done ! |
| 12 | She , in whom a natural clear spring of charm flowed vigorously , who expostulated , articulated and knew her own mind with commanding grace — in private , not in public of course ( before others who were not family , such confidence in a girl would seem an outrage ) — could not speak up now and tell Rosa what she felt . |
| 13 | Nutty changed , and felt obliged to confess to her parents what she had been up to . |
| 14 | Let's tell Ellie what she 's got ta do and what she 's not gon na do . |
| 15 | I ask Eva what she gave him . |
| 16 | Rachaela tried to give Ruth what she had had with Emma , things she liked or which would be good for her : sausages and chips , chicken and broccoli , real carrots , grilled fish with cheese and baked beans . |
| 17 | On and on she went , never telling Ruth what she wanted to know . |
| 18 | I asked Maxine what she felt about the session she had just experienced . |
| 19 | Thereafter , much of Margarete 's unquenchable energies were devoted to telling in books and lectures what she knew of the story which Solzhenitsyn would describe definitively in his Gulag trilogy , and to trying to inoculate the young against the totalitarian virus wherever she thought she saw the threat of it . |
| 20 | Deborah told her new boss what she believed the company needed : ‘ Principally the clothes were an insult to the country girls they were trying to portray … they were n't suitable for country wear but they were selling very cheaply to secretaries in towns . |
| 21 | So when I asked Karen what she thought she was up to , I was merely expressing my irritation and anxiety at this interruption . |
| 22 | Still , it was pretty plain what she meant . |
| 23 | Not a single one of my colleagues doubted for a moment what she said . |
| 24 | She believes at every moment what she says . |
| 25 | Should she forget her promise to Juliette and tell Hassan what she knew ? |
| 26 | She wondered if she should confess to Connor what she had tried — and failed — to do , but when he came into the bedroom at last , she felt at once that this was not the right moment . |
| 27 | Is Lily what she seems ? |
| 28 | then they stop her this tax what she owes them all , well she 's been getting a hundred and forty seven |
| 29 | ‘ Th'heard what she said — they 've finished with us , ’ jerking her thumb at the closed door . |
| 30 | as common as muck what she goes |