Example sentences of "[Wh det] she [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to see the palm houses which she had heard the Sheikh had built . |
| 2 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 3 | This would have been , not because of the doctrine of estoppel ( which would have required either a deliberate misleading or negligence by her ) , but because of her signature on a document which , as was apparent on the face , was intended to have legal effect and which she had authorised the trader to complete . |
| 4 | What had happened to the icy indifference with which she had surveyed the world for the past few years ? |
| 5 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |
| 6 | Nor could he avoid reminding Charlotte of the hopeful turn Colin 's case had taken — a turn to which she had made a significant contribution — while her niece 's plight seemed only to worsen by the day . |
| 7 | Although her breathing became a little faster as she imagined this part of the scene , she did not become noticeably distressed in any way ; in fact she told me that she felt really pleased with herself for the way in which she had handled the situation . |
| 8 | One of her hobbies was anaesthetics , and she subscribed to an anaesthetists ' journal in which she had seen an advertisement for a chemist who outfitted doctors ' waiting-rooms and surgeries . |
| 9 | Indeed , she had respected Angela Morgan for the straightforwardness with which she had tackled the issue when they had met at the lawyer 's office . |
| 10 | ‘ Victoria , you 're a sensible girl , you go first , ’ was an order she heard often and with pleasure , for whatever ordeal into which she had to lead the rest , from construing straight-faced a suggestive passage of Ovid to pushing her pony through a muddy ford , was always rewarded by authority 's approval . |
| 11 | showed us the lovely crystal glass which she had received the previous Wednesday at Wembley Conference Centre . |
| 12 | When Warner Bros , the company with which she had signed an exclusive long-term contract , squandered her potential during the Thirties in a series of amusing but , for her , unfulfilling potboilers ( eg Fashions of 1934 , The Big Shakedown , Jimmy the Gent , Fog over Frisco ) , she took the unprecedented step of departing for England , where she could continue working outside of American jurisdiction . |
| 13 | Poor Madame Moulton found that Princess Metternich had acquired a quantity of corn on the cob which she had persuaded the Empress to have cooked and served so that Mme Moulton could give a demonstration of how it should be eaten . |
| 14 | She had a sort of velvet cap , from which she had snipped a bit of veiling . |
| 15 | Arachne 's contribution was a woven hanging on which she had depicted the lives and loves of the gods . |
| 16 | The elegantly shabby room in which she had found a haven was an oasis in the East End 's desert , which could be glimpsed through the small bow window . |
| 17 | The SOCO indicated with her soft , white hands the drawer on the top left in which she had found the scissors . |
| 18 | Fighting down an abrupt rush of fear as she zigzagged across the stone floor to avoid the rifle fire , Benny pulled out one of the small plastic sample bags she always carried , and dropped the paper on to which she had copied the drum 's label into it . |
| 19 | They had reached the further side of the field during this animated discussion and Meredith hopped nimbly over the gate with twice the speed and dexterity with which she had negotiated the stile . |
| 20 | On the day of the overdose , after her husband and daughter had gone to work , she had finished writing a suicide note which she had started a week before . |
| 21 | She negotiated a fee of $1,800 a week from which she had to pay the Girls ' salaries of $45 each , netting considerably more for herself . |
| 22 | Approximately 100 people then took part in the business meeting when our President , Lady Braithwaite , opened the proceedings with many congratulations to the Society on the previous eventful year in which she had taken a deep interest . |
| 23 | All the knowledge she had came from her lessons in the village school , which she had left a year or two earlier . |
| 24 | Subtitled ‘ A Satire ’ , the novel is a bitter , pessimistic work in which the ominous subcurrents of Brooke-Rose 's earlier novels are seen in their most threatening light , and the gradual disintegration to which she had subjected the traditional realist novel in her three previous works is brought to an explosive climax . |
| 25 | Behind them Madame Pipi , in black dress and white bib and apron , ostentatiously returned from the cubicles they had used and flourished the cloth with which she had wiped the seats . |
| 26 | Crouched by the window from which she had lifted the blackout curtain , she also became aware of something else , unmistakable strong , insistent : the first stirrings of the new life within her . |
| 27 | Joan Daniels joined a Medau class at Blackheath in 1956 and started teacher training in 1961 , which she interrupted to have a family , two sons and a daughter before qualifying in 1969 . |
| 28 | Katherine in a dress of milky white shantung , simple in its A-line but rich in its texture , a dress which she felt matched the calm of the room they were sitting in . |
| 29 | She 'd firmly resisted her mother 's oft-repeated efforts to tempt her with the power-packed vegetable which she 'd seen the singing sailor-man so often greedily guzzle straight from the can . |
| 30 | All Kate 's previous sexual experience had been limited to clumsy caresses which she 'd had no difficulty in resisting . |