Example sentences of "on [Wh det] she [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 The Prime Minister announced on Nov. 26 that some months earlier the Queen had asked him to consider the basis on which she might voluntarily pay tax on her personal income and also take responsibility for certain payments to additional members of the royal family ; the Prince of Wales had made a similar request with regard to the Duchy of Cornwall .
2 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 .
3 Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet .
4 If she has a religious faith which enables her to believe that death is not the end and that she and her husband will be re-united one day , she should be supported and encouraged in this , as it is something really positive on which she can begin to rebuild the rest of her life .
5 ‘ How is Kathleen ? ’ she asked , to give herself some time and in an effort to restore the conversation to a level on which she could cope .
6 She now had three of that lady 's outfits in the wardrobe and there had not yet been an occasion on which she could wear one of them : the last one had been a winter coat sporting a large fur collar , and the previous one , as Miss Belle called it , an afternoon tea gown .
7 She hung on to the towelling and the scissors , and then looked around the dismal room to find a clean surface on which she could put them .
8 But , of course , there was nothing on which she could strike the flint .
9 He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper .
10 I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world .
11 Now she took care to change the subject and what could be more natural than to talk to the vet and his sister about Faustina and to speculate on what she might be doing at this moment .
12 She was embarking on what she would always regard as the pleasantest years of her life .
13 But do n't get me started on what she used to do .
14 Her initial action on reaching her room , however , was to sit down by the telephone and to try and concentrate her attention on what she should do now .
15 A woman would be quite prepared to accept a wage lower than a male compositor 's , since it would probably still be a great improvement on what she could earn elsewhere .
16 Joanne began to focus on what she could see as the positive aspects of the new approach , and while she did not specifically identify them as such , they were related to the process objectives within the scheme of work .
17 But , since she could n't do anything about the car situation until that wretched part had been delivered , should n't she concentrate her worries on what she could do something about ?
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