Example sentences of "[prep] what she [vb mod] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | " 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 . |
| 2 | Gave her the facts to make of what she would ; and make of them what she could , Jay did not understand . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | She had an exact estimation of herself ; she knew what she could accomplish now , and was certain of what she would be capable later . |
| 5 | She stood a better chance , she thought , upon her own : though a chance of what she would not have liked to have said . |
| 6 | He moved cautiously now , unused to the preludes , unsure of what she would expect . |
| 7 | She decided to remain where she was until she could be sure of what she would find outside the closed front door . |
| 8 | Robyn clutched the receiver and found she did n't have the first idea of what she would say when he answered it . |
| 9 | Jabbing violently forward , with no thought whatsoever of what she would do if she actually hit him , she did n't even notice where he was retreating until it was too late . |
| 10 | As she got into her car , she pushed away the worrying question of what she would do if she found evidence that implicated Veronica in the murder of Hugh Puddephat . |
| 11 | His voice was pure seduction , drawing her deeper and deeper into the spell of passion , and she shook her head with a desperation born of fear — fear not of him but of what she would do if he continued this heady , drugging assault on her senses . |
| 12 | What a damn shame , he thought , what a tragedy that she was a woman instead of what she ought to have been . |
| 13 | These penalties , to be sure , fell far short of what she might have expected for speaking out in Stalin 's Russia , which she had continued to admire for far longer than many people . |
| 14 | She did not begin to think of what she might say to Kathleen . |
| 15 | Picking Benny up gently he cradled his head in his lap , conscious of his-mother standing in the garden , her hand over her mouth as if terrified of what she might find . |
| 16 | But still , for week after week , she never dared see if she was right , because she was afraid of what she might find within . |
| 17 | He wanted to tell her the whole story then , but he was afraid of what she might think . |
| 18 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps Mistress Hopkins was murdered simply because of what she might know . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ That poor old woman was murdered , ’ Benjamin declared , ‘ not because she had said or done anything wrong but simply because of what she might know . |
| 21 | Quite frankly , she was terrified of what she might see . |
| 22 | She hoped that she would not disgrace herself by fainting , or by being unable to help him through fear or disgust of what she might be seeing . |
| 23 | Fran forced herself to sound cool and friendly , to betray no hint of the fear twisting her heart at the thought of what she might discover . |
| 24 | But once at the School , in his own place and with his daily occupation , he began to think again of this dream woman , and added to the old notion of what she should be , which Diana had personified , was an idea of her as his rescuer , as someone who would save him and make him whole again . |
| 25 | and thought of what she should do next , without this view , without the solace of a yearly grant , without the irreproachable ( or now , through custom , irreproachable ) excuse of study . |
| 26 | Her Finals were approaching , and she had no idea of what she should do next , and indeed did not dare to think about the future for she knew that it offered her little in the way of readily acceptable projects . |
| 27 | She felt suddenly uncomfortable , unsure of what she should do or say next . |
| 28 | She had not the least idea of what she should do next , other than perhaps to fasten the strange garment about her waist . |
| 29 | He could n't bear to think of what she must be suffering . |
| 30 | After the words he had written to her , it was churlish of her to avoid him , but she dreaded any interview because of what she must say . |