Example sentences of "which she [vb past] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Canaday , the incoming editor of the newspaper 's art page and responsible for the dismissal , had made a challenge to a climate of opinion in which Dore Ashton 's criticism was valued for its sensitivity , and where the art which she praised was accepted . |
| 2 | She also knew that it was probably quite beyond Mrs Bennett to appreciate that a trained nanny , even as young and nice a one as Karen , would not take kindly to being asked to do anything other than the job for which she had been engaged . |
| 3 | Martha longed to show off her advancement in reading and writing , for which she had been noted in the valley , and was bewildered and humiliated when she could make no sense of the books she was given . |
| 4 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 5 | The Doria , their own ship , brought by the Venetians and Zacco from the Abruzzi , and a veteran now of the war for which she had been chartered . |
| 6 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 7 | ‘ The hills of Sintra mean that even in the height of summer the town has a freshness , which is why the rich people used to build their country houses here to escape the heat of Lisbon , ’ Ashley said , resolutely switching her thoughts away from her host and to a guide book which she had been reading . |
| 8 | On the day after Christmas she received the letter from him which she had been expecting . |
| 9 | Similarly , Vera Brittain was finally converted to absolute pacifism — and rendered temporarily speechless — while listening to Christian pacifist speeches at a rally to which she had been invited to put the case for collective security . |
| 10 | Hilary gave a brief report of the VIIth International and Commonwealth Conference on Sport , Physical Education , Recreation and Dance which she had been invited to attend on behalf of the M&D Division of the C.C.P.R. It was held at the University of Queensland , in Brisbane , Australia from 23–28th September , immediately preceding the Commonwealth Games . |
| 11 | And she cried out as a cascade of fireworks seemed to explode deep within her , before their bodies , now moving in perfect unison , recaptured the fierce , tumultuous pleasure they had always shared in the past — the total consummation which she had been denied for so long . |
| 12 | In a moment he had gripped her hand in his and was pulling her away from the bale on which she had been resting . |
| 13 | Ms Wilikins did not look too happy with the question for which she had been given no prior notice . |
| 14 | In December 1986 she had had a transient ischaemic attack for which she had been given enteric coated aspirin ( ecotrin 300 mg/day ) . |
| 15 | Lilian Ormerod , 63 , of Stonedale Crescent , Norris Green , Liverpool , had been in Broadgreen Hospital 's cardio-thoracic centre , in which she had been given blood transfusions and other treatment for heart disease . |
| 16 | Another , a regular visitor to the Undercroft , presented a model of the King of Siam 's Royal barge , which she had been given 40 years ago , after service in our Bangkok Embassy . |
| 17 | She allowed her steady gaze to flicker from the glass which she had been holding firm . |
| 18 | The midwife rolled up her sleeves and toiled all night by the light of candles stuck in turnips , and just before dawn the baby was delivered on to the same straw mattress on which she had been conceived . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've done quite well , ’ Arlene conceded , keeping to herself the growing excitement with which she had been watching Paula over the past weeks . |
| 20 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 21 | The stony-hearted shore upon which she had been washed up was always in sight of a fretting , dull , menacing sea : potentially dangerous , urged on by the tide , looking for a killing . |
| 22 | Of which she had been doing as Liz left the car . |
| 23 | As Charlotte did so , she felt increasingly impatient with the veiled sarcasm to which she had been subjected . |
| 24 | Taking it up , and with no very clear idea of what she meant to do — apart from escaping from the humiliations to which she had been subjected — Theda crept out of the room , down two sets of stairs , and slunk past the open door of the coffee-room , where the landlord 's voice was joined to those of his wife and the gentleman . |
| 25 | Theda demanded , indignation warring with the hurt she was experiencing from the dreadful blow that had been dealt her , the vicious attack to which she had been subjected . |
| 26 | This script began with Aunt Lilian 's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades . |
| 27 | There were ornaments worth many guineas and pictures , however weird they seemed to her , which she had been told were of great artistic merit . |
| 28 | It turned out , after cross examination , that the bottle in question was in fact a bottle of Algizin-P , which she had been told to use to keep her fish healthy . |
| 29 | He had certainly researched Grantham and Marsh and the testimonial Sebastian had purportedly given her was in line with the high regard in which she had been told she was held by the company , although she 'd hardly expected to be given such a glowing recommendation . |
| 30 | ‘ But … but I love you ! ’ she cried , suddenly coming out of the trance in which she had been imprisoned , and desperately anxious that she should in some way communicate her feelings for him . |