Example sentences of "[Wh det] she [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wexford ignored him and followed the widow to the sideboard from a drawer of which she took a long cream-coloured book . |
| 2 | And though the whole cult was largely founded on a pout , a posture , a rear view of ponytail and hindquarters and some carefully arranged shower curtains , sheets and wet clothing , the significance of it was that a young woman created a new lifestyle indisputably of the Fifties in which she took a man 's attitude to sex . |
| 3 | In those countries she visited not only ancient monuments and museums but also factories , prisons , and orphanages , in which she took a keen interest . |
| 4 | ‘ Twenty-five years ago I made a suspense movie , Wait Until Dark , with Audrey Hepburn for which she got an Oscar . |
| 5 | From the theatrical magazines on which she spent every spare penny , she learned all that she could about her . |
| 6 | It is her first job since leaving her studies during which she spent a year at the Headquarters of John Menzies as part of her four year course . |
| 7 | First , blood and urine samples were taken ; then Elinor was X-rayed , after which she spent the rest of the day being wired up to various machines for tests . |
| 8 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
| 9 | In December 1991 the consultant paediatrician in charge of J. ( Dr. I. ) wrote a report in which she expressed the view : |
| 10 | She led a losing diamond from dummy , on which she discarded the winning heart from the closed hand , and West was forced to ruff and concede the last two tricks . |
| 11 | After reading the note , Blanche thought she would dispose of Taczek somehow with the same ease with which she refolded the slip of paper and slid it into her handbag . |
| 12 | Mrs. Bidwell , the Laboratory cleaner , had insisted on visiting her broom cupboard , under escort , and had provided herself with a feather duster and a couple of rags with which she made a vigorous onslaught on the bookshelves . |
| 13 | She wrote long letters home to Antonia in which she translated the other girls ' lives in terms that made sense to her . |
| 14 | Such a phenomenon may be explained in various ways , but one factor of acknowledged importance is certainly the rapidity of economic and social change , which tends to separate more sharply the experience , expectations and outlook of older and younger generations , as Mead ( 1970 ) argued in a study in which she likened the ‘ dissident young ’ to pioneers who are exploring a new time rather than a new country . |
| 15 | Introduced to the children by headteacher Margaret Sutton , Mrs. Bulmer said she was pleased to be able to make the visit and presented the school with a tree , which she hoped the children would be planting in the garden . |
| 16 | As ever , Omi was in , sitting patiently at the table , writing one of the many letters with which she kept the tattered network of Brombergs and Ritters precariously bound together . |
| 17 | I 'll find time this morning , ’ Lucy promised , sensing that Jean was seeking approval of the manner in which she kept the chalets . |
| 18 | She had not gone back to whoring , but eked out a miserable living as a washerwoman , for which she lacked the stamina . |
| 19 | Mr Stanforth came from behind his desk to meet his visitor in person , and settle her with ceremony into the client 's chair , though she was not a client , had no need whatever of a solicitor , and had come here in response to his telephoned request chiefly out of pure curiosity , of which she had a woman 's proper share . |
| 20 | The act was performed with particular virtuosity when Mrs Crumwallis dosed them all with castor oil , an old-fashioned cure-all in which she had a fiendish trust : then the boys ' performance resembled nothing so much as an acted-out illustration for Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 21 | An eerie shiver as she woke the next morning , suddenly in a cold landscape for which she had no bearings . |
| 22 | Margaret Thatcher and the kind of neutral policy analysis the tank produced simply do not mix : ‘ Of its very existence it sort of encapsulated a view about government for which she had no great sympathy . |
| 23 | There were some risks to life and limb , however , over which she had no control ; how could she ever have guessed that she would outlive her son Robert by almost exactly 10 years ? |
| 24 | But it was her identity , she said , it was all she had , and she went on putting a caste mark which she had no right to on her forehead and wearing all her gold bracelets and cooking sag ghosht and dal instead of the defrosted hamburgers and chips which was what most people ate around there . |
| 25 | Lady Kitty 's wardrobes were crammed with clothes , and she would give those for which she had no further use to someone with little money — in exchange for some of their coupons , of course . |
| 26 | Then she was driven back to the squat , where she spent all afternoon putting up her curtains where none had been , or replacing curtains for which she had no feeling . |
| 27 | This was an argument between them of which she had no knowledge , but it was clearly a bitter one that rankled on both sides . |
| 28 | Yet here she was , on the top floor of the BBC 's Television Centre , being asked to shape a new serial designed to appeal to the one audience bracket of which she had no understanding . |
| 29 | It is , in their Lordships ' opinion , quite clear that Mrs. Duval was pressed by her husband to sign , and did sign , the document , which was very different from what she supposed it to be , and a document of the true nature of which she had no conception . |
| 30 | She had the sense she was inhabiting a dream from which she had no desire to wake . |