Example sentences of "[Wh det] she [vb past] [art] [adj] " 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 | In those countries she visited not only ancient monuments and museums but also factories , prisons , and orphanages , in which she took a keen interest . |
| 3 | From the theatrical magazines on which she spent every spare penny , she learned all that she could about her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She wrote long letters home to Antonia in which she translated the other girls ' lives in terms that made sense to her . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She was an excellent shrewd local politician and a comfort to her at the end of her life was the defeat of the atrocious plans of the Merrell Dow Chemical Company to build a plant near her beloved River Blackwater , the last campaign in which she played an active part . |
| 11 | Fei Yen had dressed quite simply , in a peach ch'i p'ao , over which she wore a long embroidered cloak of white silk , decorated with stylised bamboo leaves of blue and green and edged in a soft pink brocade that matched the tiny pink ribbons in her hair and set the whole thing off quite perfectly . |
| 12 | Fascinated , Dr Neil , who had opened the bag and was beginning to pull out strange-looking forceps and a bottle of chloroform , watched her lift up her black skirt to reveal a spotless white petticoat , from which she cut a large square which she placed on the grimy table , having first cleared to one side the used cups and plates covered in half-eaten food . |
| 13 | Pauline , the highlight of whose round was the eagle with which she followed a wind-tossed triple-bogey at the 12th , brought news of how she had been attacked by a couple of bitches . |
| 14 | Miss Stobbs paid an £85 deposit for which she received a written receipt and agreed to pay the balance before her June wedding . |
| 15 | For Elizabeth — who had flown micro-light aircraft , climbed rock faces , dived in treacherous underwater currents and travelled the world alone — the visit to the remote camp near Sondwana was one adventure too far for which she paid the ultimate price . |
| 16 | There was no mistaking her sincerity , nor the obvious distaste with which she regarded the very idea of such a union . |
| 17 | She leased the theatre ( which she called the Royal Victoria Coffee Music Hall ) for eighteen years at a rental of £1,000 p.a. , raised from her own charitable supporters , but faced an immediate financial crisis as local audiences , deprived of drink or blue jokes , withdrew their patronage . |
| 18 | It is ironic that the right hon. Member for Finchley was pitched out of office a year ago today as a direct consequence of that ’ no , no , no ’ with which she infuriated the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) . |
| 19 | They were in the kitchen , Irene still in a dressing-gown , an ivory frilled cotton to which she gave a golden glow , and Nona in jeans with a white shirt . |
| 20 | She was reduced to the landlord 's daughter who served at table : it was the sort of anonymous commingling in which she found a great relief . |
| 21 | One , she felt , was taking advantage of Bernard and her by knowing about the business — he had requested some shares in the company , which she considered an outrageous request ; another had called her by her Christian name which was equally unacceptable . |
| 22 | The choreographer was Onna White , who had worked on the first musical version of a Charles Dickens book , Oliver ! , the 1968 British film starring Ron Moody and Oliver Reed — for which she won a special Oscar — and had staged Half a Sixpence in New York , featuring Tommy Steele . |
| 23 | That 's what she said the other day . |
| 24 | Clare was surprised to find how much money it cost to lead what she considered a normal life . |
| 25 | She had affected what she considered a posh English accent and I 'd die with embarrassment in the French pastry shop when , pointing with her little finger , she 'd say ; ‘ Emm ! |
| 26 | Although she embraced the need for each collection to be a little different in order to move forward , she would often be upset that what she considered a beautiful print could not be included in the collection for ever . |
| 27 | While she waited , she had rehearsed what she considered a dignified little speech for Sister Ignatia , explaining that , for this first term , it would not be possible for her to pay the fees in advance , as was customary , but that she would … |
| 28 | Her back was as straight as a ramrod , which made her feel a little more dignified while engaging in what she considered the unladylike art of cycling . |
| 29 | ‘ One thing she often came back to was what she called the great divide in all individual lives . |