Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] she [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1937 she also did another season of variety , for which she always insisted on having her material specially written . |
2 | Her independence was further underlined by an impending marriage , news of which she now shared with Taheb . |
3 | By contrast she was ‘ positioned ’ by her partner as being incapable of doing much of what she regularly performed at the centre . |
4 | It was the start of what she later described as ‘ the most emotionally confusing day of my life . ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ Nonsense , Saul ! ’ said Araminta , smiling in what she evidently felt to be a winning fashion . |
7 | What a shame that we did n't — or could n't — see more of the role that the Queen actively plays in British politics in the television portrait filmed to mark her 40 years in what she memorably described as a ‘ job for life ’ . |
8 | From the little Patrick had told her , and from what she already knew of the woman , she knew Madam Lundy was quite capable of having them killed as a lesson . |
9 | While based at Solihull , near Birmingham — a location to which she still commutes at weekends — she was able to visit the RSC at Stratford quite regularly . |
10 | Her feelings for him had been a pallid thing beside what she now felt for Fen . |
11 | She even claims to be the government 's science policy coordinator — a role we should n't attach too much weight too , according to Mrs Thatcher , who once told New Scientist off for inflating this part of her job beyond what she really had in mind . |
12 | But her mind did not dwell long on what she privately felt to be a remote contingency — Lady Merchiston was so changeable ! |
13 | Her friend , Miriam , had embarked on what she euphemistically described as ‘ a wonderful adventure ’ — her first act of adultery , after a nine-year marriage rooted in mutual devotion and trust . |
14 | I should like to ask her a few questions , such as what she really feels about the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) . |
15 | Even her needlework , at which she constantly prodded during bumpy aeroplane journeys , was not really undertaken in order to produce a fine object but as an aid to entering another world of deep thought and reflection . |
16 | Indeed , Leonard can only recall a volume of the Russian writer Gogol on her shelf , by which she presumably kept in touch with her own more distant — if painful — affiliations , though influencing Leonard , perhaps , unconsciously , with Gogol 's sense of fantasy and comic genius — as well as his need to travel . ) |