Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | There it was again : that feeling of being mesmerised as obediently she met the ice-blue gaze which devoured her . |
| 2 | Angry too that she had not been trusted with knowledge which concerned her so much . |
| 3 | Fortunately my mother was able to return to teaching and to complete the final two or three years which qualified her for a pension of her own . |
| 4 | Carrying a heavy basket and bundle , Tess was walking towards the hills which divided her from the Vale , her place of birth . |
| 5 | A dress which enveloped her in an aura of purity . |
| 6 | Jane is unlikely to earn much sympathy by virtue of the attention given to the environment which produced her dabbling in eventfulness and her poor kiss , and yet the two environments have more in common than would once have been thought possible . |
| 7 | The less agreeable side of Mathilde 's nature revealed itself in her tendency to what the French call l'esprit démolisseur , a sort of wilful destructiveness , which led her to become a focus for the intellectually disaffected during the Empire . |
| 8 | She was less close to Gildas , whom she regarded with some slight awe , for she feared his irony and his sharp tongue , and would not have allowed him the slightest ‘ liberty ’ had he not cleverly , for he was very clever , ‘ set up , a conversation which led her , through a series of exchanges , into the danger area . |
| 9 | It was in Schiaparelli that she met Tricarico , who brought her aboard the Resplendent Trogon , which led her into the presence of Balthazar Plum — and if it had n't been for all that , she would never have acquired the Alice in the first place . |
| 10 | Skirting the lakeside , she took a route which led her in the opposite direction from him . |
| 11 | She had no problem in finding the turning which led her along an unadopted road for half a mile before she drove through open gates up a steeply ascending drive past lawns on several different levels until she finally reached a gravelled circle in front of Penry 's house . |
| 12 | It was not the smell which deterred her but the fact that there were two girls present : one sat on a table swinging her legs , while the other stood by a sink . |
| 13 | Like most happy-go-lucky people , she had a good many minor misfortunes , which amused her as much as everyone else . |
| 14 | Even Karen felt a tiny sense of loss , which amused her more than it upset her . |
| 15 | As long as she had money , she could pretend she had always been here , but the prospect of destitution tested her false history in a way which made her feel it was n't her fault . |
| 16 | Somewhat forbidding socially because of shyness , Dorothea had an absolute integrity which made her stand up for what she believed should be done . |
| 17 | Possibly even more so than being the all singing , all dancing performer which made her a millionairess . |
| 18 | The enormity of ‘ one roof ’ had taken her by surprise , and it was perhaps the way that had stiffened her which made her now feel so free , so beyond obligation . |
| 19 | She sat for a while , checking an anguish which made her want to sob . |
| 20 | The other Girls would talk about their families and homes which made her feel so lonely . |
| 21 | Her back was as straight as a ramrod , which made her feel a little more dignified while engaging in what she considered the unladylike art of cycling . |
| 22 | What prompted her to invite him she could not have explained , but there was something about him — an air of loneliness , perhaps , though it was more than that — which made her suddenly want to tell him that he could rely on her friendship . |
| 23 | What was it about unashamed luxury , Harriet sometimes asked herself , which made her feel so uncomfortable ? |
| 24 | She was cursed ( I ca n't think of a stronger word ) with a permanent affliction , or dosage , of a complex which made her feel and left her with , a strange aura of inadequacy . |
| 25 | Within a month Renate had lost her job ( ‘ the complaint was that the girl was too slow ’ ) and had suffered a sharp decline in health , having contracted chronic catarrh , nervous debility and eczema of the scalp ‘ which made her unable to summon up the courage to get a haircut after a hairdresser had been very rude to her on the subject ’ . |
| 26 | The story was n't exactly all over the front page , but it started there with photographs of Mercer and Bambi and continued inside , with a glamorous back-lit formal shot of Xanthe , which made her look a lot older than her published age , fifteen . |
| 27 | I told her she looked happy and luminous , which made her look even more happy and luminous . |
| 28 | She had been treated with drugs , which made her feel worse , and found it difficult to speak at all . |
| 29 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 30 | Even before she had come to , it rapidly circled her belly with a sharpness which made her cry out — and waken Ellen . |