Example sentences of "[Wh det] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just says to Mrs Sneddon that she needed a new battery for her hearing aid and that a daimen-icker in a thrave didny mean whit she thought it did ! |
| 2 | Wexford ignored him and followed the widow to the sideboard from a drawer of which she took a long cream-coloured book . |
| 3 | Sometimes he forgot and gave them again , which she took to be a good sign . |
| 4 | Moreover if we wish to interpret ‘ consolations ’ in a rather more modern way we can not but admire the efficiency with which she took control of her own life . |
| 5 | And though the whole cult was largely founded on a pout , a posture , a rear view of ponytail and hindquarters and some carefully arranged shower curtains , sheets and wet clothing , the significance of it was that a young woman created a new lifestyle indisputably of the Fifties in which she took a man 's attitude to sex . |
| 6 | Her duty — a duty in which she took consummate pride — was to ensure the smooth running of The Tamarisks . |
| 7 | Not much strength was expended in the acquisition of the first game , which she took in only 12 minutes , before Jackman had found her bearings . |
| 8 | The water was icy cold but she washed her arms up to the oxters , and then her face and her neck down to the top of the bodice ; after which she took off the rest of her underwear and got into a calico nightdress . |
| 9 | Then there had been another science during which she took periodical gulps of her tea and the sleeping baby stirred and gave small pig-like grunts . |
| 10 | He started to sit up , seeking her face , but she was already moving down the bed , and moments later he felt her lips on his stomach , and then upon the head of his cock , which she took into her mouth by degrees , her tongue playing on it as she went , until he thought he would lose control . |
| 11 | Annie let a smile touch her lips and she passed off her embarrassment by wiping Rachel 's mouth with a spotless white handkerchief which she took from her coat pocket . |
| 12 | She was also rather surprised by the way in which she took her own newly-acquainted charms , for she was almost as determined as Janice to make the best of herself , and she had more to make the best of . |
| 13 | He looked at the girl and held out his hand , which she took and kept while he told his story . |
| 14 | In those countries she visited not only ancient monuments and museums but also factories , prisons , and orphanages , in which she took a keen interest . |
| 15 | Bryony also had an enormous bag which she took with her everywhere , a great soft shapeless thing which looked as if ( Carolyn 's guess was later verified ) it had been home-made out of wash-leathers . |
| 16 | It also contained the piece of furniture in which she took most pride — a Victorian brass bed that she polished lovingly every three months . |
| 17 | The idea may then be for the surviving spouse to give the property ( which she took under the deed of variation ) to the children and make a potentially exempt transfer under IHTA 1984 , s3A : provided she survives seven years no inheritance tax will have been payable on the death or on the gift or indeed on her death by reference to the property which she gave to the children . |
| 18 | She had spent thousands of pounds refurbishing the pub which she took over a year ago . |
| 19 | Avanda Hopwood from Blackfriars traded in her 1992 plate title for the 1993 women 's singles shield which she took in even more convincing fashion than Andy . |
| 20 | The African Child ( 1931 ) was an account of an international conference on African children which she attended in Geneva . |
| 21 | She had dinner with Ben and Maggie Bradshaw , and Oliver and Bron Henderson had a party which she attended , although she ended up bumping into Jack as she might have known she would , and going home with him for the night . |
| 22 | I shall ride up on the Norton , ’ he told her , and there was a difficult pause in which she waited for him to suggest she should come up to Liverpool in the New Year . |
| 23 | The female still lay there , watery eyes staring at some remote distance from which she waited to be recalled . |
| 24 | Then in 1965 , inspired by an eighteenth-century folio which she discovered in Leixlip Castle she revived the art of making pictures ( usually floral designs ) from different shells mounted on a black velvet background . |
| 25 | The first of these circumstances was the arrival of an envelope , which she discovered on the hall mat on her return from school . |
| 26 | Finally , it is worth noting Engle 's remark that the horse on which the Amazon warrior rode into battle represented ‘ a substitute for the phallic power which she envied ’ and ‘ made her feel like a man ’ . |
| 27 | Indeed , she was rather proud of the magnificent logic with which she countered his Winchester admission . |
| 28 | She settled everybody round the fire , took them hot drinks , and then set to work on her sweet-hearted retriever with a comb , during which she got her guests into perspective . |
| 29 | Gloria was officially still at school but took most afternoons off to help in the shop , for which she got paid . |
| 30 | ‘ Twenty-five years ago I made a suspense movie , Wait Until Dark , with Audrey Hepburn for which she got an Oscar . |