Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found herself wondering painfully how she compared in that respect with this Sybil . |
| 2 | She was curious to know how she looked to other people . |
| 3 | Ronni was n't quite sure how she felt about that judgement . |
| 4 | Lisa could n't figure out quite how she felt about this development . |
| 5 | Leonora thanked him quietly , not quite sure how she felt about this idea . |
| 6 | What she said to me on the subject of the race riots and how she felt in that context makes me think that this stage in her life was nothing to do with race . |
| 7 | That was why she had reacted to him with such ferocity , why she had such difficulty tearing her mind away from him , why she shivered inside each time she pictured his face . |
| 8 | However , Brenda 's turn is so constructed that it starts in London English with a statement about what happened , and switches to Creole at " cause " ( which could be London English or Creole ) — precisely the point where she begins her explanation of why she acted in this way . |
| 9 | Do you know when she left on that trip she left behind a list of about 28 things I was to do . |
| 10 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 11 | We shall tell the full story of Charles Frederick Titford in due course ; enough for now to say that he would be outlived by his widowed mother , who was 80 when she died at 24 Warner Street , Lower Holloway , on 4 March 1902 , ‘ Widow of Benjamin Titford , Commercial clerk ’ . |
| 12 | Seaham policewoman Anne Pearson , of Darlington Harrier , was also in record form , taking over three minutes off the previous best time when she finished in 37 mins 13 secs , over a minute ahead of Houghton veteran Maureen Dodsworth . |
| 13 | She did n't face Christina when she said through clenched teeth , ‘ I 've never expected or received any help from you anyway , Christina . ’ |
| 14 | She remained well until March 1989 , when she presented with generalised pruritus and fatigue . |
| 15 | In particular she won a great deal of sympathy last January when she appeared on national television with Bill Clinton as he faced allegations of extra-marital dalliance with a singer . |
| 16 | She was put in Ravensbrück concentration camp , whence she went with two SOE colleagues , Lilian Rolfe and Denise Bloch , on a working party at Torgau . |
| 17 | She was then based at Portland from where she sailed on four month training cruises . |
| 18 | In 1912 she was elected as a Labour councillor in the London borough of Kensington , where she pressed for public provision of baby clinics , school meals , improved council housing , employment schemes , and prohibition of sweated labour . |
| 19 | Vanessa Thompson , who lives in Brussels , decided to make the study when her husband 's job forced her to leave the pretty village where she lived for eight years . |
| 20 | At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week . |
| 21 | For she knew where she stood with that family . |
| 22 | Mildred heaved a sigh of relief and leapt onto the floor where she huddled in perfect silence under the bookcase near the door . |
| 23 | Mrs Burnett seems to have taken marital and maternal duties lightly , and though she did not formally end the marriage until 1898 , from early days she made a practice of absenting herself from her family , often for months on end , travelling in North America and Europe , and spending long periods in England , where she moved in high society and had many literary friends , Henry James and Israel Zangwill [ qq.v. ] among them . |
| 24 | On returning to the USA she joined the UMC 's Board of Global Ministries where she stayed for 29 years until her retirement in 1990 . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't ask me , missis ; all I know , wherever she went on those nights , she 'd leave here at half-past six and it was lucky if the clock saw her coming in that door at half-past eleven at night . ’ |