Example sentences of "what she [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Midge protested at what she saw as bureaucratic interference in what should have been a private grief . |
| 2 | There was no competition here , no assumed superiority on the part of another to make her uneasy or defensive , only what she saw as shared experience , delightful in retrospect . |
| 3 | The staff member who received the flowers on this occasion did what she did through pure interest and gut instinct . |
| 4 | She put down her long life to what she regarded as healthy eating — her breakfast on her last birthday was brandy , bacon and eggs — and keeping the Ten Commandments . |
| 5 | She needed someone to talk to about it all , needed a sharer of secrets , an ear to listen to her plans and , above all , someone to agree that she was on the right course , that both shopping expedition and holiday were what she stood in urgent need of . |
| 6 | Miss Wharton , on her first visit to St Matthew 's , nine years previously , had decided that it was expedient to admire it since it was her parish church and offered what she described as Catholic privileges . |