Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] which she " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was . |
| 2 | ‘ I shall ring as often as I can , and if Dana phones try to get her address or telephone number , ’ Claudia said firmly , cutting across Myra 's flight of fancy in which she and Roman Wyatt danced every night and forgot all about Dana and Garry . |
| 3 | Here the street-walkers were not too sophisticated : outside her tenement a harlot stood , skirts raised , over a chafing dish of coals on which she had sprinkled brimstone and perfume so as to fumigate herself . |
| 4 | First , the original client shows up on a plane of existence to which she would never normally have access . |
| 5 | She still lived at home , handing the meagre amount of money on which she was supposed to have managed to her mother . |
| 6 | She could not bear the sensations of loss with which she knew that she would be obliged to sit down and confront her mother . |
| 7 | Ace had been dimly aware of it for some time , but now she realized that beads of laser light were swinging in crazy arcs all round the stub of girder on which she and Defries were standing . |
| 8 | In broad psychological terms , it can be said that the male is achievement-orientated , directing his efforts towards a specific goal , whereas the woman is more concerned that the differing elements in her life should be in harmonious relation to one another , and that the circle of light in which she is centred includes them all . |
| 9 | For a week , while the ship was stored and watered and fresh livestock taken aboard , Sara lived in a strange no-man's-land of emotion in which she alternated between boiling excitement at what lay ahead and abject dolours at the thought of leaving Ireland . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Deeply suspicious of his motives , she treated him with all the most obvious display of distrust of which she was capable , but her efforts seemed to leave him cold , so she decided there was only one course left open to her . |
| 12 | In Act 1 Scene 2 , between lines 33–91 , she is dictated a list of suitors to which she is both critical and particular . |
| 13 | I 'm not sure , as she scowls at herself in the mirror , about the choice of films in which she contemplates a role . |
| 14 | In Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 the plaintiff sued in respect of defects with which she was born which she alleged were attributable to a motor accident that rendered her mother a quadriplegic at the time that she was pregnant with the plaintiff . |
| 15 | Suppressing a sigh , she surveyed the map of Copenhagen with which she 'd already armed herself before leaving England , refreshing her memory as to the location of the street where Suzie 's presence had last been authenticated . |
| 16 | Made some sort of mark by which she could be remembered . |
| 17 | There is a point of despair at which she is forced to choose between life and death , however unconscious that choice may be . |
| 18 | Although it will be my first mortgage , my girlfriend already has one of £50,000 for which she has an endowment up and running to cover that amount . |
| 19 | She realised that there would be no light-hearted understanding in Cramer of actions for which she herself could find no easily articulated justification . |
| 20 | Rather than simply sampling at random , it is helpful to make some preliminary enquiries among the child 's parents or teachers regarding the kinds of situations in which she is most likely to talk . |
| 21 | At Benjamin Rhodes there are new paintings by Tricia Gilman ( to 24 April ) , abstract tapestries of paint into which she has introduced charming pictograms of her young son and his world of toys , flowers and butterflies . |
| 22 | At the same time , in contrast to earlier eras , the housework is more likely to be carried out in isolation , without reference to others or without any external standard of comparison from which she might derive status or recognition for her particular skills as a cook or a housewife . |
| 23 | The therapist encouraged Pamela to make a list of ways in which she would like her parents to change in terms of providing her with greater freedom . |
| 24 | However , she had encountered difficulties in drawing up a list of ways in which she would like her parents to be more tolerant . |
| 25 | It also contained the piece of furniture in which she took most pride — a Victorian brass bed that she polished lovingly every three months . |
| 26 | When Lady Maud Hoare flew from Britain to India in 1926 on the first ever flight from Croydon to Delhi she had to reduce the amount of luggage with which she usually travelled quite drastically . |
| 27 | Not at all the kind of surroundings in which she would have expected to find the high-profile , socially-very-much-in-demand Nathan Bryce . |
| 28 | For the first time since 1982 she did n't take part in a short-handed ocean race , a form of competition to which she has become healthily addicted . |
| 29 | She wants to know whether she was judged on the piece of sculpture itself ; and if so is it not true that time alone can judge a work of art ? or was she judged on her talent ; if so , is it right that she should be judged on a part of life over which she has no control ? |
| 30 | In Wales ( under Edward I ) , in Scotland ( under the first three Edwards ) and in France ( from Edward I to Henry VI ) England fought a succession of wars in which she was , in fact , the aggressor . |