Example sentences of "[Wh det] she [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In a second article on the killings , Naipaul 's wife Patricia used the word ‘ antics ’ to characterise the behaviour of the De Freitas set , which she firmly separated from the serious politics of the Caribbean . |
| 3 | She dresses in a cat suit ( which she even wears in the bath ) , she eats raw fish on the floor , and sits on the garden wall at night , howling . |
| 4 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 5 | She made several ‘ women 's ’ films for Rank , including STREET CORNER ( 1953 ) about the women police in Chelsea , which she always cited as a particularly enjoyable experience since it involved working with a mainly female crew and cast . |
| 6 | Dame Joan gave a compelling performance , handling the coloratura apparently without effort , and rising superbly to the final altissimo E flat — a stratospheric note which she then repeated in the encore . |
| 7 | The second movement of No. 3 is a wildly witty Rondo , which she occasionally played as an encore ; you can see why : the jaws of her audience must have dropped onto their collar studs at its combination of ding-bat humour and sheer difficulty . |
| 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 | She says what she honestly believes in a brave , even foolhardy manner . |
| 10 | By contrast she was ‘ positioned ’ by her partner as being incapable of doing much of what she regularly performed at the centre . |
| 11 | Yet she also knew that if she had succumbed to her longing she would not have been satisfied , knowing what she now knew of the terrible difficulties of love . |
| 12 | Sebastian seemed as cheerful as ever , but what she now saw as the unthinking , meaningless nature of his good nature irritated her almost beyond bearing . |
| 13 | ‘ You must listen to this , ’ said Hugo , and Valerie , out of simple love , stopped writing and listened , though Lover at the Gate was in mid-flow and she did not want her concentration spoiled : what she now put on the page was beginning to have the quality of automatic writing : she feared the cutting-in of her own rationality : doubt would come with it , and hesitation . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | I should like to ask her a few questions , such as what she really feels about the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) . |