Example sentences of "[conj] what she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite suddenly whether Anne worried or what she thought were not of the least importance . |
| 2 | Perhaps , thought Harry , Heather had not told him of her visit to Oxford — or what she had learned there . |
| 3 | Ratings were made by a team of researchers with no knowledge of whether or not the woman was a case , or what she had said about her response to the event . |
| 4 | And — worse — how did you ever decide what you felt about that person or what she meant to you ? |
| 5 | Or what she planned to do about it when she found out . |
| 6 | Of all the recent authors it is perhaps Jeffreys who has developed the most thorough analysis of permissiveness or what she refers to as the ‘ sexual revolution ’ . |
| 7 | Only she does n't care much for things or what she eats , what she wants are people , action . |
| 8 | She did n't care where she went or what she saw as long as he was pleased and she was with him . |
| 9 | I do n't know where she went or what she did , but at night she was always there , curled up on the rattan chaise-longue , looking at me . |
| 10 | She had no idea , until then , why she was acting as she was , or what she suspected , or why , indeed , she should suspect anything but a straight pick-up , and one so simply and attractively engineered as to be quite unalarming ; a normal minor wolf on the prowl , with a long weekend to while away , and an eye cocked for congenial company , preferably intimate , but in any case gratifying . |
| 11 | She knows , but does not know why she knows , or what she knows . |
| 12 | She could not see why her mother wanted her , nor what she expected her to do in Northam , and whenever she mentioned the subject to others they exclaimed in horror , commiserating with her , telling her that she must be firm , never for half a moment assuming that she could or would really do it . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew she went to a certain museum but I did n't know where else she went , nor any of her sources , nor what she paid for things . |
| 14 | He put the candle-holder down on it , then turned towards her , and before she could stop him he gave her a kiss so gentle that it hardly registered , and she stared at him , wide-eyed , put her hand to where he had saluted her , and said huskily , ‘ No , ’ although what she meant by that neither he nor she knew . |
| 15 | But still , on the bus going to and from school , on her steady , daily runs in the park , swimming , weight-lifting , doing her exercises , and on those other rare occasions when she was alone and free from the demands of school , State , and family , Erika found herself thinking of Fritz , although what she thought she scarcely knew herself , except that she knew that she blushed when she did so … . |
| 16 | Her life was uneventful , so that what she thought about naturally was what she saw with her eyes , or in her mind 's eye . |
| 17 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 18 | I knew that what she told me could n't be the whole story . |
| 19 | Although she knew they were both wrong she could n't apportion blame to either of them , not yet , at any rate ; the only thing she knew at the moment was that what she had heard tied her to this house and the business as if she had signed a contract giving away her life . |
| 20 | He was only a man in a queue but something in his voice suggested that what she had said struck a chord in him . |
| 21 | Now , when he allowed her so much of his time , she realised that what she had felt before was but a poor shade of the real thing . |
| 22 | Recovering from her immediate mini-breakdown , Dawn decided that what she had regarded as comfortably dull marriage had become comfortably boring for Tim . |
| 23 | There was nothing more she could say or do to prove that what she had told him was the truth . |
| 24 | She believed in love , but she had been too impatient , her eagerness to experience it persuading her to believe that what she had felt went deeper than liking and a mild physical attraction . |
| 25 | Often she had to work so hard to overcome her paralysing shyness that what she had to say burst out in a shout , or in a tone of great fierceness . |
| 26 | She can not believe that what she thinks about this and that has any value , because she has thought it . |
| 27 | ‘ My mother 's quite convinced that what she calls my ‘ footloose lifestyle ’ is a recipe for disaster . |
| 28 | She had not tried , as yet , to see beyond today ; she sensed that what she saw when she did lift her eyes might well be a void , and as bleak as winter ice . |
| 29 | And I ca n't see that what she said to me is any of your business . ’ |
| 30 | I was suddenly aware that what she said was true . |