Example sentences of "[Wh det] she have [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Plus she ran the farm which she had no idea about .
3 This was an argument between them of which she had no knowledge , but it was clearly a bitter one that rankled on both sides .
4 Juliet cooked them both a meal for which she had no appetite , and watched her father leave for the hospital in his blue Cavalier .
5 Gus said : ‘ Of course ! ’ in a slightly startled voice , and visibly withdrew his vision and his thoughts from some distant preoccupation in which she had no part .
6 The three of them were involved in some game of the sexes in which she had no part .
7 Now another journey began , one of which she had no memory , no knowledge of the decision to start , but one which she was made powerless by love to turn from .
8 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 .
9 An eerie shiver as she woke the next morning , suddenly in a cold landscape for which she had no bearings .
10 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 .
11 She had the sense she was inhabiting a dream from which she had no desire to wake .
12 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 ?
13 This was , she knew , thinking back to what the astrologer had said all that time ago in London , the blaze that had been ignited and over which she had no control .
14 She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Agnes disliked rings on men , although to be fair to Husband — which she had no intention of being — she had little trouble in finding something to dislike about everybody from Six .
18 He was right , of course ; it had been a mistake , and one which she had no intention of repeating .
19 The infant Elizabeth will learn that being promised a sweet for behaving herself will result in more than the mere probability of its arrival ; the penny will have dropped when she realises that a promise entitles her to the reward — it is her due , to which she has a right .
20 For a few days , to use a word for which she has a penchant , Mrs Thatcher ‘ wobbled ’ .
21 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 ?
22 For those unable to be so direct , the bed can become , for the angry woman , an arena of struggle , perhaps the only one in which she has the advantage .
23 ‘ The age at which she has the operation may be left to the woman .
24 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 .
25 and do you know what she had the nerve to say afterwards ? ,
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