Example sentences of "of [Wh det] she [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An additional financial burden for a woman in situations such as these may be that of arrears which have accrued , of which she may have been previously unaware ( Ginsburg , 1979 , p. 128 ) . |
| 2 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 3 | She held the bag between them , suddenly not daring to put it down in case it signalled something , the consequences of which she might regret . |
| 4 | The journey and the sport would usefully consume at least three weeks , during all of which she would be beyond the regular or predictable reach of the mails . |
| 5 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |
| 6 | It was a turn of the screw of which she could never have dreamt herself capable . |
| 7 | And these questions pursued her , buzzing like mosquitoes , as she walked up Marylebone High Street with her briefcase , as she crossed the Edgware Road , as she joined the conference group for sherry in the Westminster Suite , as she discovered that Edgar had rightly warned her that conversing with Japanese was not easy , as she ate her indifferent luncheon of Maryland chicken , as she listened to Professor Yamamoto speak on Spenser 's reinterpretation of Freud 's interpretation of folie à deux in the classic case of Orphan Eva and her mother , as she delivered her own paper , as she attempted desperately to follow the ensuing discussion , of which she could grasp only one word in ten : all through this crazy jumble of non-language and misunderstanding , of erudition and impenetrable obscurity , of meaningless signs and uninterpretable eye contact , the mosquitoes buzzed and nipped and drew blood . |
| 8 | At the end , through an open doorway , she glimpsed a bedroom , richly hung in peach-toned fabrics , expanded by yet more mirrors in one of which she could see the reflection of a large oil painting . |
| 9 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 10 | Gave her the facts to make of what she would ; and make of them what she could , Jay did not understand . |
| 11 | The Protestants could hope but by no means be certain of what she would do , though they could take comfort from her dramatic gesture on Christmas Day 1558 , when she ordered the bishop celebrating Mass in her chapel not to elevate the host , walking out when he refused , and her even more spectacular gesture on 25 January 1559 when , at the opening of parliament , she told the abbot and monks of Westminster , processing with tapers burning , ‘ Away with these torches ! |
| 12 | She had an exact estimation of herself ; she knew what she could accomplish now , and was certain of what she would be capable later . |
| 13 | She stood a better chance , she thought , upon her own : though a chance of what she would not have liked to have said . |
| 14 | He moved cautiously now , unused to the preludes , unsure of what she would expect . |
| 15 | She decided to remain where she was until she could be sure of what she would find outside the closed front door . |
| 16 | Robyn clutched the receiver and found she did n't have the first idea of what she would say when he answered it . |
| 17 | Jabbing violently forward , with no thought whatsoever of what she would do if she actually hit him , she did n't even notice where he was retreating until it was too late . |
| 18 | As she got into her car , she pushed away the worrying question of what she would do if she found evidence that implicated Veronica in the murder of Hugh Puddephat . |
| 19 | His voice was pure seduction , drawing her deeper and deeper into the spell of passion , and she shook her head with a desperation born of fear — fear not of him but of what she would do if he continued this heady , drugging assault on her senses . |
| 20 | What a damn shame , he thought , what a tragedy that she was a woman instead of what she ought to have been . |
| 21 | These penalties , to be sure , fell far short of what she might have expected for speaking out in Stalin 's Russia , which she had continued to admire for far longer than many people . |
| 22 | She did not begin to think of what she might say to Kathleen . |
| 23 | Picking Benny up gently he cradled his head in his lap , conscious of his-mother standing in the garden , her hand over her mouth as if terrified of what she might find . |
| 24 | But still , for week after week , she never dared see if she was right , because she was afraid of what she might find within . |
| 25 | He wanted to tell her the whole story then , but he was afraid of what she might think . |
| 26 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps Mistress Hopkins was murdered simply because of what she might know . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ That poor old woman was murdered , ’ Benjamin declared , ‘ not because she had said or done anything wrong but simply because of what she might know . |
| 29 | Quite frankly , she was terrified of what she might see . |
| 30 | She hoped that she would not disgrace herself by fainting , or by being unable to help him through fear or disgust of what she might be seeing . |