Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merrill never knew how she managed the careless , amused laugh . |
| 2 | The Northern Echo published details of how she spent the last hours of her life on a shopping trip with her friend , Veronica Alderson , from Kirk Merrington . |
| 3 | She explained to Farmer Plant how she used the outjutting twin branches of the tree as her pony , as she had n't a real one to ride , and how she was working for the Pony Rider badge . |
| 4 | How she hated the weary familiarity of those sounds . |
| 5 | How she loved the very name . |
| 6 | Of all the roles she had played in the theatre , of all the great works that had come her way , she was fated to be remembered mostly for how she pronounced the rhetorical question , ‘ A hand-bag ? ’ |
| 7 | At first she was shy but then she chattered about Nantes , how she missed the dark woods and green fields of Brittany . |
| 8 | She claimed to have been ‘ scarce fourteen years ’ when she wrote The Female Advocate , her most important work , which was published in 1686 . |
| 9 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 10 | BRITISH Airways pilot Barbara Harmer flew into the record books yesterday when she became the first woman to operate a Concorde . |
| 11 | Dayflower made history last week at York when she became the first Dubai trained runner to win in England and 31-year-old trainer Indian Satish Seewar will be hoping for a similar landmark in Ireland . |
| 12 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
| 13 | AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD girl from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , made British medical history yesterday when she became the first person to start gene therapy to combat a potentially fatal deficiency . |
| 14 | FIONA Saunders , 24 , made a small piece of personal finance history when she became the 50,000th saver with Britain 's oldest and largest investment trust . |
| 15 | Stuart made her international breakthrough in 1985 when she took the European junior 200 metres silver medal behind Kerstin Behrendt , who was named earlier this week as one of the athletes involved in a state-run drug-administering programme in what was East Germany . |
| 16 | Monique was 20 when she began the intense three-year association with Matisse , in 1941 . |
| 17 | No more than 14 when she pocketed the Scottish Girls ' title and the Scottish Girls ' Under-22 Stroke-Play Championship for a first time , Jane became the youngest ever to play for Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup when she was chosen for the 1980 match at St. Pierre . |
| 18 | She had drawn the curtains at the house the previous evening and was carrying out a routine check at about 7.30 am when she saw the smashed back porch . |
| 19 | She looked into the back , which was when she realized the brown holdall had gone . |
| 20 | Wild horses would n't make her ask what had caused it , not when she had the uncomfortable feeling that she would n't enjoy hearing the answer ! |
| 21 | The American was streaking clear in the 100 metres hurdles when she hit the last barrier and crashed to the ground . |
| 22 | ‘ Where on earth have you been ? ’ demanded Polly when she opened the front door . |
| 23 | THE Republic 's President , Mary Robinson , was the toast of a remote island community today when she opened the first licensed premises on Inishturk in Clew Bay . |
| 24 | That same year , for example , Britain 's Sue Barker enjoyed perhaps her finest hour when she defeated the pretty Czechoslovakian , Renata Tomonova in three sets . |
| 25 | Libby , a PE teacher from Ballymena , first met Simonica in January 1992 , when she visited the Brasov-based Marianna 's orphanage on a trip organised by School Aid Romania . |
| 26 | That 's where she had the bloody potato at the back of the bloody thing , there , pushing it in . |
| 27 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
| 28 | Around the world — in Japan where ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ won record of the year in its top music awards , in Israel where Kylie was voted most popular female singer of the year and Finland where she became the first artist ever to have four consecutive number ones in a year — the picture was the same : gold , silver and platinum framed . |
| 29 | Ten years or so later , she moved to Rustenburg , where she ran the Grand Hotel , which her eldest son took over when she retired . |
| 30 | In 1892 she went with her mother on a visit to South Africa , where she met the feminist Olive Schreiner [ q.v. ] and fell traumatically in love with an unmarriageable man . |