Example sentences of "she [verb] [Wh adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she realised why the meeting had dragged on , when the matter under discussion could have been finalised in ten minutes : it was the morning 's work . |
| 2 | On another occasion she demonstrated how the clay should be worked on the armature : now then , stick it right up , ram it , ram it , ram it and work away , either from the back or front , whichever comes easiest ! |
| 3 | And she told how the boy brought the dog his food . |
| 4 | And she told how the tot : |
| 5 | She shows how the individual ( artist ) can oppose corporate image-making by using what lies around at home , plus the traditional methods of parody , satire and humour : of taking an image " too far " or nowhere near far enough . |
| 6 | This is ridiculous , she decided when the taxi finally pulled up outside the cottage , after what seemed like years of self-analysis . |
| 7 | Nenna had no more than an animal 's sense of direction and distance , but it seemed to her that the right thing to do would be to try to reach the City , then , once she got to Blackfriars , she knew where the river was , and though that would be Lambeth Reach or King 's Reach , a long way downstream of the boats , still , once she had got to the river she would be on the way home . |
| 8 | She felt less of a stranger once she knew where the bathroom was . |
| 9 | She made doubly sure she knew where the paper bags , the brown wrapping paper , the string and the roll of Sellotape were kept . |
| 10 | In fact , she was n't even sure she 'd told Rohan she knew where the tower was located , let alone that she 'd been there . |
| 11 | She knew where the track was and she also knew where the main road joined it . |
| 12 | She knew where the landing aircraft ought to be , her mental picture of the aerodrome traffic constantly being updated by the radio calls from other aircraft . |
| 13 | Ashley had swung to a middle-aged woman beside her to demand if she knew when the camera shot changed . |
| 14 | Going on tiptoe to the dresser , Beth replaced the book , then taking the oil-lamp with her , drew the curtains ; but not right across , for she knew how the boy liked a chink of moonlight to shine through . |
| 15 | ‘ She attends a boarding school and every night when I phone her she asks how the dog is and whether we have fed her . |
| 16 | She shifted yet further away when he turned around to face her and she saw where the course of the chain originated from . |
| 17 | They were all smoking , observed Jannie , but John , as she saw when the camera finally settled on him , was smoking more than most . |
| 18 | They settled in armchairs and she saw how the standard lamp threw shadows on his face , accentuating the hollows in his cheeks and the overhang of his brow so that his eyes seemed to sink into their sockets and burn there in the firelight like lamps in darkened caves . |
| 19 | Just as she reached forward with her car key she saw how the window had been forced and the catch freed to open the door . |
| 20 | He did n't understand but he heard the word ‘ spider ’ and laughed , and she laughed too , until she saw how the light slid over his cheekbones and dropped luminous on his hair like Ember 's , then she was crying into the warmth of his shoulder and he took her through a linden-scented night to a place where her tangled feelings speared through tawdry lust into oblivion where she was n't alone . |
| 21 | Then she saw how the Oxo boy on the advertisement hoarding smiled and she realized that they had come a different way by a different route and that she was nearly at Mrs Parvis 's boarding house . |
| 22 | For a moment Louisa wondered whether this platitudinous sentiment might be turned to advantage , but it could not be done without contrivance ; and when she looked up she saw how the Rector 's face aspired to bravery . |
| 23 | She remembered when the coal had finished . |
| 24 | And almost at the same moment she remembered why the name ‘ Luke Hunter ’ was so familiar . |
| 25 | She remembered how the temperature in the restaurant had dropped when she had made her unwitting gaffe . |
| 26 | She remembered how the table around which they sat at High Tea , was covered with a sheet of speckled grey lino which had a strange stickiness . |
| 27 | She kicked where the cornflower walls faded to a thin azure ; maybe there would be thinnest . |
| 28 | So simple , she wondered why the idea had n't occurred to her before . |
| 29 | ‘ My husband was driving , ’ she began and she wondered why the man 's face wore such a sloppy expression . |
| 30 | Undressing in the dark , she wondered why the thought depressed her . |