Example sentences of "[Wh det] she [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was concentrating with exaggerated passion upon her own blind , sensitive footsteps when her instep caught in some solid , clinging mass , and threw her forward in a clumsy , crippling stumble , from which she recovered strongly , and kept her balance . |
| 2 | But it does indicate the extent to which Mary 's cushioned childhood created not only a cocoon of adulation , but a cocoon of immaturity which she seemed remarkably reluctant to pierce . |
| 3 | It was a satisfying sort of job , good for working off frustrations — of which she seemed currently to have rather more than her fair share . |
| 4 | The chasm between her and the other writers is most apparent in comments she made at the ‘ Nouveau roman : hier , aujourd'hui ’ conference at Cerisy in 1972 , in which she clung resolutely to her conviction of the existence of a pre-verbal , extra-textual reality in mental life . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , poor you , ’ said Lydia inadequately , suddenly ripped with a desire , which she recognised as utterly reprehensible , to sit on the floor and giggle insanely . |
| 6 | They stared at each other in mutual surprise , and then Sara 's feeling was succeeded by another which she recognised as pleasure — unexpectedly , pleasure . |
| 7 | She is acutely disappointed by the government 's lack of investment in the clothing industry in this country , and highly critical of the industry itself , which she says just does n't realise the potential of its designers . |
| 8 | One of his favourite cakes was a sticky gingerbread which she made frequently in the cold days of winter . |
| 9 | Christopher Petrie and Jane lived for a year as neighbours : he in the manor and she in the stables-converted cottage , which she made much cosier and more inviting than the manor — one reason perhaps why Christopher spent so much time there . |
| 10 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |
| 11 | One day she was looking rather appalled about something each of us had done , which she thought very silly , and said , ‘ Thank goodness I ca n't inherit it ! , ’ |
| 12 | She ate the slice of her landlady 's home-made fruit cake , which she thought delicious , and she drank the tea that had milk in it , and which she thought only fit for the uncivilized . |
| 13 | If someone has taken out a PP which is contracted out of SERPS , the widow 's pension under SERPS or under the occupational pension scheme to which she belonged previously will be replaced by an annuity bought out of the fund of contributions built up so far . |
| 14 | I 'd never seen her without a single string of pearls , which she fingered constantly . |
| 15 | This is the first show of Cooper 's dedicated exclusively to this medium that I have ever seen and it impresses me as providing the ideal means for her to achieve that tenuous balance between coy decorativeness and crude primitiveness which she uses successfully to convey the psychological weight of a figure 's gesture . |
| 16 | The Eldest Son 's wife had gone quickly to fetch her a glass of tepid water , which she drank carefully , tipping her mask back fractionally to accommodate the glass . |
| 17 | ‘ I say , ’ said Penny , losing interest in the fortunes of Burleigh School , which she hoped speedily to put behind her , ‘ look at that . |
| 18 | Bella lit a cigarette , which she smoked now with a holder . |
| 19 | Since Silly-Willie 's birth she had lived far away at the grand end of the West Avenue , in the Gate Lodge , which she kept as spruce as any bedroom in the Big House . |
| 20 | Betty noticed however that Lydia contrived to carry nothing but a bottle of cider which she had clearly earmarked for herself . |
| 21 | The conventions prevented her from heaping any further abuse on Chay Bank , a housing project which she had frequently and loudly denounced , but near which she had never set foot : the precariousness of her own social position would forever prevent her from visiting Fred Bowen , and this yearly ritual meeting on neutral ground was as much as she would ever dare risk . |
| 22 | Dr Neil sat her down in a chair opposite to his , and drew out the permanently set-up board on which she had frequently seen him working out problems . |
| 23 | She would ‘ have to make a very special effort ’ to build the links with other professionals — GPs , the police , consultants and others on which she had barely had time to start in the five months she was there . |
| 24 | I had put a point to the unions concerning long-term pay arrangements on which she had neither been informed nor consulted . |
| 25 | She was absorbedly prodding the aged melon , which she had somehow got hold of . |
| 26 | On Oct. 9 a special court in Lahore adjourned a hearing against her , at which she had again been present , reportedly to avoid making a ruling before the Oct. 24 elections . |
| 27 | Jo had the camera , which she had temporarily put aside : her knowledge of the theories of representation , refined on a highly analytical degree course , had blocked her . |
| 28 | Perhaps my mother had received another anonymous letter which she had successfully concealed from me ? |
| 29 | Hence the dress and hat which sent the photographers into ecstasy in Melbourne and generally created far more attention and comment than the match in which she had successfully defeated the first of her 1991 Grand Slam titles . |
| 30 | For example , a husband whose wife was incapacitated by the defendant 's negligence had his own action against the defendant for the value of the domestic services which she had formerly rendered and for the loss of her ‘ consortium ’ ( or society ) and a master had a remedy for ‘ enticement ’ against one who wrongfully persuaded his servant to leave his employment . |