Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] she [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julie decided to top up her Californian suntan until Kitty Summerville called lunch , after which she would take a casual stroll to another of her favourite haunts as a child , the old summer house on the river bank . |
| 2 | For a new patient this whole process may take upwards of an hour , after which she will see the doctor again and , if anything has been found , will be started on appropriate treatment . |
| 3 | Mr Bernard Staite , boss of the consortium who operate the loco , commented : ‘ From November No 4472 will embark on a year long tour of private railways after which she will have a major overhaul . |
| 4 | Molly felt similarly safe , brought to this strange place about which she would have clearly so much to learn . |
| 5 | It was , I felt sure , something about which she would have something to say . |
| 6 | He turned around and stared at her with that insufferable thoroughness , which was downright rude , but about which she could n't complain . |
| 7 | This may take several hours during which she will lay small groups of eggs , which the male fertilises and covers with more bubbles . |
| 8 | There was a momentary silence during which she could imagine him rallying for another attack . |
| 9 | There were wall-sized French windows through which she would in daylight have been able to see the back garden . |
| 10 | She had thought of that first male kiss as opening a door inside her , through which she would step towards adulthood , real sex . |
| 11 | The spider may wait for developments sitting in the centre of the web or she may retreat to the side and lurk there with one of her eight legs resting on a cue-line through which she will feel movements in the trap . |
| 12 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 13 | She generally lived in a room next to the church , which had a window in the wall through which she could watch the Mass and receive the sacraments . |
| 14 | Gripping the hammer in one fist and propping the hatch up with her free hand , she crouched low so that she had about an inch gap through which she could see the back door . |
| 15 | She had taken him out into the garden to show him various easy spring tasks that must be done , and for which she would pay him , and he had refused . |
| 16 | A whole week in Paris at Easter seemed to her something for which she would willingly have sold her soul . |
| 17 | Christine produced a new order form for the Lent Studies booklet and fliers for the Preparation Day on 30th January to be held in Dunblane Cathedral Hall , for which she would arrange tea , coffee , and a bookstall where it was hoped to have copies of the books mentioned as background reading for the Lent study . |
| 18 | After one stunned instant , for which she could hardly blame him , he reacted with admirable promptitude . |
| 19 | Linguistic research which was meant to help women understand and change their reality is being used here to hurt them , if only by creating in the mind of the female reader one more problem , a linguistic inadequacy for which she must blame herself . |
| 20 | An additional financial burden for a woman in situations such as these may be that of arrears which have accrued , of which she may have been previously unaware ( Ginsburg , 1979 , p. 128 ) . |
| 21 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 22 | She held the bag between them , suddenly not daring to put it down in case it signalled something , the consequences of which she might regret . |
| 23 | The journey and the sport would usefully consume at least three weeks , during all of which she would be beyond the regular or predictable reach of the mails . |
| 24 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |
| 25 | It was a turn of the screw of which she could never have dreamt herself capable . |
| 26 | And these questions pursued her , buzzing like mosquitoes , as she walked up Marylebone High Street with her briefcase , as she crossed the Edgware Road , as she joined the conference group for sherry in the Westminster Suite , as she discovered that Edgar had rightly warned her that conversing with Japanese was not easy , as she ate her indifferent luncheon of Maryland chicken , as she listened to Professor Yamamoto speak on Spenser 's reinterpretation of Freud 's interpretation of folie à deux in the classic case of Orphan Eva and her mother , as she delivered her own paper , as she attempted desperately to follow the ensuing discussion , of which she could grasp only one word in ten : all through this crazy jumble of non-language and misunderstanding , of erudition and impenetrable obscurity , of meaningless signs and uninterpretable eye contact , the mosquitoes buzzed and nipped and drew blood . |
| 27 | At the end , through an open doorway , she glimpsed a bedroom , richly hung in peach-toned fabrics , expanded by yet more mirrors in one of which she could see the reflection of a large oil painting . |
| 28 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 29 | Gave her the facts to make of what she would ; and make of them what she could , Jay did not understand . |
| 30 | The Protestants could hope but by no means be certain of what she would do , though they could take comfort from her dramatic gesture on Christmas Day 1558 , when she ordered the bishop celebrating Mass in her chapel not to elevate the host , walking out when he refused , and her even more spectacular gesture on 25 January 1559 when , at the opening of parliament , she told the abbot and monks of Westminster , processing with tapers burning , ‘ Away with these torches ! |