Example sentences of "which she [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here , catch this ! ’ she instructed , throwing Maggie a towel which she deftly caught . |
| 2 | In Eliza 's fourth letter home to her mother ( the third was lost ) in which she again expresses her yearning for the children , she also describes her developing attachment to the Franklins , and her husband 's first significant expedition under their auspices : |
| 3 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 4 | The miniature faience robes are almost certainly votives standing for full-sized ceremonial robes that were offered to a goddess , either to dress an idol or to dress a priestess for a ceremony in which she somehow became the goddess . |
| 5 | Over a little carved corner of the large oval mirror into which she absently stares , not seeing herself , hang necklaces : amber , pearl , paste . |
| 6 | She had a thirst for facts and a tenacious memory , and bribed members of her family to read ‘ the drier , but more instructive books ’ which she latterly preferred , though in rural Ireland books of any kind were hard to come by . |
| 7 | Ms Wendy Mountford was living in a house belonging to Mr Roger Street , under a written agreement headed " Licence " , in which she expressly agreed she had no Rent Act protection . |
| 8 | It appeared that this setting was providing Suzy with an audience to which she gladly reacted . |
| 9 | Senior officials of the African National Congress have been urging Mr Mandela to announce an official separation from his wife since her latest outburst in which she allegedly threatened and waved a pistol at Mrs Xoliswa Falati , her co-accused in last year 's trial for kidnap and assault . |
| 10 | The marked deterioration in the position of the Russian peasant under Catherine 's rule has allowed historians to point the contrast between the enlightened ideals which she proclaimed and the oppressive despotism which she allegedly practised . |
| 11 | To gossip about diaries in which she allegedly rated her lovers ' sexual prowess . |
| 12 | She fussed , gave advice which she laughingly contradicted the next minute , and talked enthusiastically about the business she had just initiated . |
| 13 | Sometimes he wondered why the superintendent asked him to research questions to which she already knew the answers . |
| 14 | But there 's no meat , she thought , and started to unwrap the various packages which she already knew contained cheese , a couple of kippers , some liver pâté . |
| 15 | Telling her what was wrong with her , which she already knew . |
| 16 | She needed one of Victoria 's spiteful tirades about as much as she needed the pain in the head which she already had , thundering relentlessly at her temples . |
| 17 | And Madame Dietrich describes this in a letter which she later wrote to her brother . |
| 18 | She was educated in the household of Henry Hastings , third Earl of Huntingdon [ q.v. ] , president of the council in the north , and she learned there the Puritan habits of self-examination and regular religious exercises which she later practised in her own household . |
| 19 | In a conversation which she later recalled to friends Diana told him : ‘ You looked so sad when you walked up the aisle at the funeral . |
| 20 | Mrs Shelley was found with serious head injuries , from which she later died , in her home the following day . |
| 21 | Somehow she got herself out of the room , and up the stairs before anyone appeared to speak to her , tore off her clothes , and then hid the betraying underwear in a Gladstone bag which she later threw off Waterloo Bridge after she had left the embassy , pretending to go with Laura Parslow on her European tour , but actually having hired herself out to J. D. O'Connor , and gone to the East End . |
| 22 | Lilian was in her second childhood and Harriet was expecting her second child , which she secretly despised . |
| 23 | In the event , under heavy Foreign Office pressure which she secretly resented , Mrs Thatcher gave way completely . |
| 24 | ‘ So your zeide says , ’ agreed Bertha Cohen as she spread the hake , thoroughly washed and cleaned , on a wooden board and cut it into thick pieces which she liberally sprinkled with salt . |
| 25 | It was the usual reason for the angry young hero 's spleen ; Jimmy Porter goads the hapless colonel 's daughter , Alison , as immobile and submissive as the very ironing board at which she uncomplainingly stands , for being middle class . |
| 26 | Two children are also part of her busy schedule , which she aptly describes as ‘ a mosiac ’ . |
| 27 | She may have been led to the variations by the necessarily high-class backgrounds of her Lord Peter 's earlier investigations , but the book in which she definitively arrived at the backgrounder was The Five Red Herrings of 1931 , in which murder takes place in an artists ' colony in Galloway in Scotland . |
| 28 | Leith was still gasping at his audacity as well as at his discernment when , flicking a glance at the way her chestnut hair was fastened in a repressive knot , he inserted with another glance at her severe hairstyle , ‘ Now why would a beautiful woman , with equally beautiful hair , try to hide her beauty behind glasses which she clearly does n't need , try to minimise the beauty of her splendid hair , and also try to detract attention from what I clearly recall is a figure of delightful shape and proportions ? ’ |
| 29 | At times , it is almost as if she is trying to emulate the star-studded image of Suzanne Lenglen , which she clearly admires so much . |
| 30 | It had French windows opening onto a communal terrace and that beautiful view of Bristol that you get from Clifton and which she clearly loves so much . |