Example sentences of "which she have [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost desperately she sought solace in her own private ‘ pictures ’ , the programme she never tired of , which she had projected on to her drowsy mind countless times as she lay in bed before dropping off to sleep , or half-awake on Sunday mornings . |
| 2 | Then she brought him her account book , which she had kept faithfully from the first day of opening her house , and showed him the state of things . |
| 3 | Mrs Baines , 54 , who represented the Darlington Gala Club , won the cup and £100 after she tossed her pancake 62 times in the competition in which she had dressed up as Minnie Mouse . |
| 4 | The thick grey hair had been tinted a reddish brown , a process to which she had succumbed only for the last two years , having previously been free in expressing her opinion of those stupid women who aimed to camouflage their age by dyeing their hair . |
| 5 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 6 | He flipped open the book whose pages were filled with her beautiful , careful script , which he had seen many times on the shopping lists which she had made up under Matey 's instructions . |
| 7 | Pamela Churchill had to leave their house which she had to lease out to others to get income from the rent . |
| 8 | They contained news of Rose , details of life in wartime Oswaldston , stories from her daily work in teaching , which she had gone back to . |
| 9 | She had used only the top room of the mill which she had furnished simply with a small writing table and chair facing the North Sea , a telephone and her binoculars . |
| 10 | The reluctant Vicomtesse now propped the broken mirror on a shelf and poked fingers at her hair which she had piled loosely before decorating with an ostrich feather . |
| 11 | It contained a bible , a penknife with a horn handle , a clay pipe , and the verse which she had written out for him two Christmases ago : ‘ For hearts of truest mettle , Absence doth join and time doth settle . ’ |
| 12 | Most informal of all were the periods spent at the Villa Eugénie at Biarritz , the house built by the Emperor for his wife at what was then a small fishing port which she had known long before her marriage . |
| 13 | He was aware of things which she had known only by hearsay to exist , and he possessed sophistications which were most unusual in one of his age . |
| 14 | The yellowish-gray brick houses gave straight on to the street , which she had found only after turning out of another one , and then another . |
| 15 | But a short fur jacket that had belonged to Faith , one which fitted Kathleen and which she had looked forward to wearing the following winter , that had gone from its polythene bag in Faith 's wardrobe . |
| 16 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
| 17 | Sara carefully separated her gloves which she had rolled up into a ball . |
| 18 | Mary Neal , a leading protagonist of the folk-dance movement , was also the organizer of the Esperance Guild for working girls , which she had founded jointly with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence [ q.v. ] , who was treasurer of the Women 's Social and Political Union . |
| 19 | She was not proud to have been the cause of splitting her family up ; nor could she forget how her father 's love had turned to disgust ; and how could she easily reveal the shame which she had brought down on the Wards ? |
| 20 | The fire by which we sat , Mrs Browning in front , I to one side , consisted mainly of a branch of beech which she had brought in from the woods : the thick end was in the fireplace , surrounded by burning twigs cosseted into flame by Mrs Browning , who puffed upon them with a pair of leather bellows when they faltered , and the other end , in shape and size rather like the antlers of a deer , reached out into the room . |
| 21 | When she hurried out to the car , carrying her drawing materials which she had shoved hurriedly into a canvas bag , Julius was already sitting in the driving seat . |
| 22 | A 79 year old woman was referred with left upper quadrant and epigastric pain , which she had had intermittently for 28 years . |
| 23 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 24 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 25 | Like someone drowning , Sarah saw her past life in detail ; the filthy room in which she 'd grown up with no privacy and no sanitation , the painful joints on Ma 's fingers from too much sewing , Paddy 's brawls , and the incessant noise and smell of Turnmill Street . |
| 26 | That cup , which she 'd carried round with her for years , touched , held — it had come from Fincara , out of those cold white hands ! |
| 27 | It was so hot outside that she had settled for an orange cheesecloth caftan , which she 'd jacked in with a belt of linked gold hippos . |
| 28 | The bed was crisply made up with the be-frilled white broderie anglaise bed-linen which she 'd brought specially from England as her gift to Marie-Christine and Jacques . |
| 29 | Her left hand was curled down under the hem of her skirt , which she 'd pulled up on that side . |
| 30 | Twenty years doing two shows a month , of a tiny range of parts which she has known inside-out for years — it 's a miracle her creative spirit survives at all . |