Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They met whenever she had a free evening and he had a free evening , and it was n't often . |
| 2 | Sometimes the slaps and punches were for real now , and my mother would cry up the stairs in alarm whenever she heard a sudden thump as I fell on the floor or bumped into the furniture . |
| 3 | Whenever she found a knotted muscle she would say , ‘ Here we have a coconut ’ , and then pound the spot into insensibility . |
| 4 | One woman described how she experienced an aggressive pattern : ‘ I found it very difficult to cope with women over me , especially if I thought that they were n't being fair — although I had no problems when dealing with men . |
| 5 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 6 | That , at least , should be fun , and how she needed a little light relief ! |
| 7 | A TEENAGE babysitter told yesterday how she won a desperate tug-of-war with a bogus social worker who tried to grab the child . |
| 8 | This is how she welcomes a new member of staff . |
| 9 | Shelley started sorting the patients ' cards into order , and wonderered why she felt a little hurt at the thought of Victoria coming and going at the Casa Madrid . |
| 10 | Why she wanted a white one ? |
| 11 | Which is why she has a bulky grey , barely portable Compaq PC ( vintage circa 1983 ) and sales and marketing director Jeremy Rivers has an equally grey IBM PC ( circa 1984 ) . |
| 12 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
| 13 | Victoria , 39 , repeats the role in her Christmas special tomorrow when she plays a pram-pushing mother in a skit on daytime magazine programmes . |
| 14 | Margaret 's career with Salas started in 1948 when she left a senior secretarial job with Cadbury 's Scottish office to take responsibility for all typing staff at head office . |
| 15 | A victim of the craze for many years , there were times when she ate an entire paperback novel in one day . |
| 16 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |
| 17 | She had just pressed it a second time when she heard a faint voice above the High Street traffic . |
| 18 | The only survivor I interviewed who had not married and who had always worked , told me that she had only once been unemployed , for a period of 6 months , when she got a temporary job selling insurance . |
| 19 | The story of Karen and her brown envelope began in 1972 when she took a new job at a nuclear factory in Oklahoma . |
| 20 | The Queen will make history tomorrow when she attends a unique church dedication service . |
| 21 | There were two , in 1893 and ‘ 95 , when she made a daring journey alone with an eight-man African canoe crew , dressed from neck to ankle in Victorian black , with umbrella — an intrepid and comic apparition . |
| 22 | PRINCESS Diana came as close as she could to commenting on her marriage break-up yesterday when she made a public vow to continue working for her charities . |
| 23 | Laura , 18 , who is currently taking a one-year cookery course at Leith 's School of Food and Wine in Kensington , made a big impression at her father 's inauguration as Governor of Hong Kong in July when she wore a stunning short navy suit from Jigsaw and large-brimmed straw hat . |
| 24 | Nellie promised me one of her old dresses when she had a new one . |
| 25 | Sadly , Rose suffered a major setback one day , when she had a grand mal epileptic fit . |
| 26 | They had known it was not right to separate a man from his wife for several months when she had a young baby and a business , in a manner of speaking , to care for . |
| 27 | Nicandra looked forward to Sunday mornings when she had a soft-boiled egg for breakfast — on weekdays it was porridge and milk , take it or leave it , sometimes fried bread , the fat not always bacon . |
| 28 | And that was when she hit a wet patch on the tarmac and felt the car go out of control . |
| 29 | The Hochhauser Season had come along just at the right time , a time when she needed a little excitement , a little glamour , a little of the old camaraderie that she had known with her friends in Vienna . |
| 30 | And it was also a massive improvement on Wang 's time in the Stuttgart world championships last month when she clocked an Asian record of 30:49.30 . |