Example sentences of "of [Wh det] she [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she thought of the Brownie Promise and the Brownie Law and the Brownie Motto , all of which she knew by heart and had often said aloud when riding along the country lanes , so that she would be able to say them if the wonderful day should come for her to join a Brownie Pack . |
| 2 | In 1918 she became the chief woman officer of the Labour party , in which role she was particularly active in pressing for improved working-class housing estates to include community centres with nurseries , restaurants , libraries , concert halls , and home-help services , all of which she saw as not merely desirable in themselves but essential for the emancipation of working-class housewives . |
| 3 | It did n't matter ; she was plied with drinks — most of which she disposed of when no one was looking — and received frequent requests to dance . |
| 4 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
| 5 | When a young female black-backed jackal first comes into heat she is followed by several young males , one of which she selects as her long-term partner . |
| 6 | Indigestion could be quelled with a simple magnesia tablet , thousands of which she chewed in her lifetime . |
| 7 | She becomes drawn into the business dealings of the Countess , a New York cosmetics tycoon , in the course of which she travels to the Rubber Rose Ranch , a Dakota health spa , and takes part in a revolt by the cowgirls . |
| 8 | She has always painted botanical illustrations of flowers in watercolour some of which she published in a portfolio in 1982 and others she sold . |
| 9 | The girl behind the counter was Mediterranean in her appearance , with a big shock of dark curly hair out of which she peeped as if from hiding . |
| 10 | The profound anguish and hopeless despair of this woman in the face of what she believed to be the moral ruin of her whole life can not well be described . |
| 11 | His ignorance of what she feels about his ‘ human kindness ’ — she rejects any ‘ compunctious visiting of nature ’ ( 44 ) — makes him a victim , or accomplice , who has to be instructed in hypocrisy : One of Shakespeare 's problems in having to develop an evil conspiracy in the absence of any vocal moral commentary on it is to make it judge or condemn itself . |
| 12 | The first paragraph that effectively has been drafted for her give it to B T is likely to be a repeat of what she said about T G I and I think that will be it then so I do n't think that there is any large amount of work other than her work with T G I itself . |
| 13 | The policeman typed his version of what she said on an old manual Remington . |
| 14 | Kahlo 's adoption of Tehuana dress , while being an attractive disguise of what she saw as a less than perfect body , asserted both a feminist and an anti-colonialist position . |
| 15 | During the case of the nine children who were taken into care in February 1991 , one long-standing member of the Panel resigned because of what she saw as the deterioration in the Children 's Panel Hearing system in Orkney since the suspension of Mrs Kemp . |
| 16 | A physiotherapist talked , for instance , of what she saw as the consequences of a young person complying or not with recommended regimes : |
| 17 | He went out of the chapel and saw the Mother Superior , Sister Maria Palmer , mopping the floor , a menial task designed to remind herself of what she saw as her greatest weakness : the sin of pride . |
| 18 | To take her mind off Lucenzo , she tried to make sense of what she knew about the blackmail . |
| 19 | All this was to change , however , in the year she describes as ‘ extraordinary ’ , 1963 , as a result of what she took to be the effect that television was having on public debate . |
| 20 | As he walked away from the house , Mark had remembered that it was along this street , with its brightly — almost garishly — painted houses that Sophia had once seen a cluster of what she took to be exotic tropical fruits in one of the windows , only to realise that they were tomatoes put there to ripen . |
| 21 | The arrival of the Brownings and her husband in Florence at the beginning of June was the beginning of what she felt to be a softening of her self and she was glad to find the hard crust she felt encasing her crack and dissolve . |
| 22 | Sabraxis , like Azmaveth , made no secret of what she thought about Por Tanssie . |
| 23 | She could not exactly deny the existence of what she thought of as the stranger within . |
| 24 | One of them slouched in her seat making a great show of what she thought of the event . |
| 25 | The last role heads her repertoire of what she describes as ‘ crazies ’ , a list which includes Cherubini 's Medea . |
| 26 | If , as Hugh Kenner believes , Pound never ceased to love Dorothy even while he loved Olga , this is surely part of what he loved in her , an aspect of what she meant to him ; and so Pound 's feelings for and about England were , right to the end , not much less tormented than any English reader 's can be . |
| 27 | The community planner was also aware that conflict probably did exist behind the prominence of what she perceived to be middle class agitation , but did not consider it part of her brief actively to encourage alliances that were not already formed . |
| 28 | She also spied the McPhersons to her left standing on the roof of what she presumed to be their house . |
| 29 | Blanche is made a victim through Stanley 's bestial behaviour but Blanche has brought much of what she got on herself through her lies and deception of herself and of others . |
| 30 | Elizabeth compiled the following list , with support , of what she likes about living in her own home . |