Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she [vb past] [art] [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 | Merrill never knew how she managed the careless , amused laugh . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That , at least , should be fun , and how she needed a little light relief ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | How she hated the weary familiarity of those sounds . |
| 10 | How she loved the very name . |
| 11 | A TEENAGE babysitter told yesterday how she won a desperate tug-of-war with a bogus social worker who tried to grab the child . |
| 12 | 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 ? ’ |
| 13 | At first she was shy but then she chattered about Nantes , how she missed the dark woods and green fields of Brittany . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Why she wanted a white one ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A victim of the craze for many years , there were times when she ate an entire paperback novel in one day . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She had just pressed it a second time when she heard a faint voice above the High Street traffic . |
| 20 | She claimed to have been ‘ scarce fourteen years ’ when she wrote The Female Advocate , her most important work , which was published in 1686 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The story of Karen and her brown envelope began in 1972 when she took a new job at a nuclear factory in Oklahoma . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Monique was 20 when she began the intense three-year association with Matisse , in 1941 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She looked into the back , which was when she realized the brown holdall had gone . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |