Example sentences of "which she can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Hale justified the marital rape exemption in the following terms : ‘ The husband can not be guilty of rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife , for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract the wife has given up herself in this kind unto her husband , which she can not retract . ’
2 He mouths something through the glass which she can not hear .
3 In her case , the function is not the straightforward reduction of repetitiveness , but rather the creation of constantly rising expectations which she can then try to meet .
4 Otherwise , your hospital physiotherapist may be willing to see the specialist with you , for guidance which she can then put into practice herself .
5 Her favourite food is mussels which she can only find in deeper water .
6 Ask closed questions , to which she can only say ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , eg ‘ Do you like the wooden handles ? ’
7 Shopping , which Julia loves , means relying on someone like Lisa to tell her about colours , which she can still visualise , and prices .
8 She is imprisoned within massive earthen walls from which she can never escape for her body is far too big to get through the passages that lead to it .
9 Yet they may have made no effort to give her anywhere she can go to , having allocated a large bedroom to one of their small children and relegated her to the tiniest bedroom in the house , to which she can never withdraw unless she actually gets into bed .
10 It is a situation which poses an insoluble problem for the Monarch , since there is by definition no common organ of consent and consequently no responsible ministerial advice on which she can constitutionally act .
11 Each member of her family and each of her close friends will have different strengths upon which she will need to draw , and together you should try to form a bridge over which she can gradually cross from the barren wasteland of her sorrow back into society where her new role awaits her .
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