Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [verb] her " in BNC.
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1 | She spent about seven weeks during which time her mother spent a weekend with us too . |
2 | She lived for only seven weeks during which time her two sisters , Clare , five , and Victoria , three , bought her a small teddy bear . |
3 | But she lapsed into unconsciousness after being dumped down a 15ft embankment on the M50 where she suffered a series of blows , one of which broke her jaw , Dr Peter Acland , a Home Office pathologist , told Shrewsbury Crown Court . |
4 | She first appeared as a strange red light , as of a ship all a-glow , in the midst of which light her masts , spars and sails , seemingly those of a normal brig. , some 200 yards distant from us , stood out in strong relief as she came up . |
5 | To be so accepting of whatever came her way was to be comfortable but also to be dead . |
6 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
7 | Or he might be handed a file and a tiny silver tool with which to clean her toenails while she dozed in a chair . |
8 | Peggy could find no reply , no words with which to confront her daughter , such as : He 's much too old . |
9 | Soon she would not have the troops with which to maintain her responsible policy of granting independence only when a colony was politically , economically , and militarily ready to stand on its own feet . |
10 | Here is located the great cavern-temple of the Mother Goddess within which dwells her oracular priestesses . |
11 | These natural physical advantages were but the basis upon which to build her technique , and on that in turn to develop her exceptional artistry . |
12 | The elderly lady found a private moment in which to invite her hostess to come to see her in the room she occupied in her daughter 's house . |
13 | With views across the valley from her studio window , Mary mixes the tranquil scene with rock music blasting away from her portable stereo to produce the best atmosphere in which to undertake her exact art . |
14 | Which — she strove to be positive — left her the whole day in which to take her ease in Mariánské Láznë . |
15 | She had no words in which to express her present distaste for the idea . |
16 | Lynn says … she could n't have wished for a bigger meeting in which to make her first run for Britain … she 's been training hard since the end of the track season and is in good form |
17 | She resembled a particularly pathetic drowned rat , hardly a solid rock from which to argue her case — and he was enjoying every minute of it . |
18 | Russia was vehemently opposed to cession of the Liaodong Peninsula which seemed to offer Japan a valuable foothold from which to extend her influence in Manchuria and northern China . |
19 | They were silky and well cut and they would be the perfect start from which to build her new image . |
20 | It must have been the boarding-school she had been to which determined her voice , affected , sharp , shrill . |
21 | Thus with their typically lower pay ( see Susan Lonsdale 's chapter in this volume ) and lower lifetime earnings compared with men , the average woman ends up with a lower salary or wage on which to base her final salary for the purposes of working out occupational pension entitlements . |
22 | Miss Waterson said she had undertaken the study after her sister-in-law had difficulty in deciding where to have her baby as she had only anecdotal evidence on which to base her choice . |
23 | Offered such a vast platform on which to air her philosophy of life , she found she warmed to her theme and lost any remaining traces of shyness . |
24 | an inside on which depends her fulfilment as an organism , a person , and as a role-bearer . |
25 | A woman with an ‘ afflicted ’ husband told the 1888 Select Committee on Sweating that she ‘ finished ’ four pairs of trousers a day , for which she made at most 1/2d , that her wages were 4d per day less than four years previously , and that after paying her rent , she had 5/ a week on which to keep her three children , her husband and herself . |
26 | Her hair was twisted into tight steel-grey rolls on which sat her clinic cap with its distinctive badge . |
27 | Not for sustenance , but so that she had something on which to focus her attention while she thought about her response to him . |
28 | [ At which point her friend in the interview interjects indignantly , ‘ all for burping ! ’ ] |
29 | She had done clerical work before she married , at which point her widowed mother came to live with her . |
30 | Mrs Cullam did n't even look at him and when he asked her at what time her husband had come home on Friday night she said laconically , ‘ Quarter past eleven . ’ |