Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother was really a good cook but that oven was not exactly reliable — indeed , I do not know how she managed to get such nice things out of it . |
| 2 | As I struggled to follow her directions my natural curiosity overcame me and I asked her how she came to have all that wool and all those knitted garments which were obviously not for her . |
| 3 | How she had suffered for him , for her poor pitiable ridiculous father , how she had hated her cruel peers for their relentless mocking , how she had dreaded each Christmas pantomime , each school-leavers ' farewell , each assembly that she knew her father was due to conduct , each occasion on which she heard him open his mouth in public . |
| 4 | He did n't see any reason to mind it , but he wondered how she had developed such a good instinct for discovering his whereabouts . |
| 5 | We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant . |
| 6 | The mysterious Fox — I was more certain than ever that he was Special Branch now — that wretched young woman lying there in the mortuary , and I remembered my unease when she 'd told me how she had returned that file at the Records Office . |
| 7 | How she had got that name no-one dared ask . |
| 8 | I knew there were no flies on her but I wondered how she 'd found that out . |
| 9 | Robyn glared ; how she longed to wipe that infuriating smile off his face ! |
| 10 | She 'd wondered then why she 'd done that , and why , quite deliberately , she 'd encouraged another false notion of his — his belief that , secretly , she was still mourning Tony . |
| 11 | He could n't fathom why she 'd taken such exception to Eleanor . |
| 12 | This was why she 'd chosen this profession . |
| 13 | Then she felt ready to look at why she had created that situation . |
| 14 | Why she had tacked that last bit on , Leith found it difficult to know as she made her way to the car park . |
| 15 | Indeed , one of the reasons why she had liked this house was because it was near St Basil 's which appeared to be a ‘ suitable ’ church for her . |
| 16 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 17 | She laid her coat across a table then stood , not knowing what to do , wondering irritably why she had made such a fuss about coming … |
| 18 | She was still not sure why she had made this arrangement . |
| 19 | Charlotte put the receiver down and pondered the mystery of why she had issued such an invitation . |
| 20 | He was unable to imagine what she was after , why she had chosen this way out , why she seemed so bloody cheerful . |
| 21 | Recalled to the present by the cold of the flagstones numbing her feet and automatically aligning the cup handles , she suddenly realized why she had remembered that summer teatime in Martyr 's Cottage . |
| 22 | Being part of the racing establishment , he could be helpful to her , and he had seemed to understand why she needed to pursue this , and it would n't be that painful to see him again . |
| 23 | Despite her efforts to be helpful and well-behaved , Mildred had an uncanny knack of appearing to be the cause of any trouble which was occurring , and it must be admitted that there were occasions ( particularly when her rather wild imagination ran away with her ) when she managed to turn some peaceful event into a scene of total chaos . |
| 24 | The cab drove slowly away through the bleak night while Meredith sat without moving , painfully remembering where she 'd heard that phrase before : ‘ Beggar myself ’ . |
| 25 | The love of Leonora 's life was sailing , and during the summer months she spent her Sundays on the water at the local reservoir , weeknights at the tennis club or the cinema , and in the winter she took part in as many activities as possible in the small town where she 'd lived all her life . |
| 26 | Frances smiled at the chair where she 'd left all her weary years . |
| 27 | A volunteer who had lately returned from China where she had seen another aspect of the refugee problem spent her first evening at Dovercourt simply observing the children . |
| 28 | Henceforth she must carry on from where she had started that momentous morning in Goddy 's office . |
| 29 | He looked around the room where she had spent much of the last few years . |
| 30 | Every minute she was in the house where she had spent most of her life , crowded as it was with memories of her parents and her grandfather , made it more difficult to bear up . |