Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh det] she [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum went straight up to Mrs Phipps and demanded to know what she meant by saying Granny had had her chips . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm at your entire service , ma'am , ’ he said , eager now to know what she had in mind . |
| 3 | He wanted to know what she thought about everything , because as he told her he found everything she had to say so interesting . |
| 4 | It would be interesting to know what she did with all the money he left her . ’ |
| 5 | She tried unsuccessfully to hide what she described as ‘ preposterous fear ’ , and I understood that her fear had no focus and no logic , but was becoming a state of mind . |
| 6 | Should it not be the woman 's right to choose what she does with her body ? |
| 7 | Theodora tried to remember what she knew of the geography of the place . |
| 8 | ’ He did look at her then , rather sadly and searchingly as if he were going away for ever and wanted to remember what she looked like . |
| 9 | There is no doubt of her mental motivation or desire to simply play and exercise , to express what she feels in her mind is the most natural of things to do . |
| 10 | She said , ‘ What 's this ? ’ it did n't matter to her what it was — a piece of stone in the hearth — just something to talk about — an embarrassed need for words to cover what she saw as his rejection . |
| 11 | Araminta had wanted to escape what she regarded as an irksome duty . |
| 12 | She has a right to do what she chooses with her time , and interference often makes matters worse . |
| 13 | If they are not , Mrs Thatcher will either have to reconsider her faith in the private sector always to do what she deems to be the right thing , or she will have to promote changes in the way in which the markets go about their business . |
| 14 | She would put all her things on the floor because it was hers to do what she liked with . |
| 15 | Oh be able to practise what she preaches at long last . |
| 16 | Granny decided to dismount which she did with some difficulty on account of.having to keep her frock pulled down to hide her torn drawers . |
| 17 | Jazzbeaux walked , trying to reconcile what she knew with what she had seen , what she had felt . |
| 18 | The way things were , she was going to have to watch what she said to Aunt Sarah — and that was not something she 'd had any practice in . |
| 19 | ‘ Now I would ask you to measure what she says against rumours and speculation . |
| 20 | Not until her mid-thirties did she find her taste change , and even then by chance , as good manners constrained her to eat what she had for so many years quite strenuously resisted . |
| 21 | When that aim has been reached , the slimmer will abandon or moderate her strict dietary habits and try to maintain what she considers to be her ideal body weight . |
| 22 | ( She assured Charles she had been subtle in her questioning , but he dreaded to think what she meant by subtlety . |
| 23 | I felt safer now that they 'd arrived and I was curious to see what she meant by ‘ laying out ’ . |
| 24 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 25 | She had simply , and thoughtlessly , intended to kill what she had in any case thought of as an insincere proposal . |
| 26 | Her insistence seemed absurd in view of her own failed marriage , but I had always been too nervous to point this out , to ask what she made of the break in connection between the symbolism of the dress and the unassailability of the marriage vow . |
| 27 | He wanted to ask what she had to be tired about , to remind her that this dinner-party was all her idea , and there was no real point to it at all , since they had asked nobody whom they needed to impress . |
| 28 | Course Moira always has had a vivid imagination , you have to take what she says with a pinch of salt . |
| 29 | The undeniable need to establish a personality clear of the shadow of Mrs Thatcher was confounded with the mistaken urge to repudiate what she stood for . |
| 30 | Crown counsel never sought by reference to the May addendum to correct the witness or to clarify what she meant by ‘ one statement , ’ nor did he reveal to defence counsel the existence of the May addendum . |