Example sentences of "which she [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I ca n't , ’ she said , and was surprised at the unsteadiness with which she walked across the room , lifted the receiver , handled the mundane enquiry . |
| 32 | It was n't just the smells of dug earth and the friendly shapes of garden implements which she associated with him ; it was the sense of escape the place gave her . |
| 33 | At the end of a long gold chain she carried a Georgian spyglass which she applied in a rather menacing manner to a small , beady eye . |
| 34 | This was echoed by another boy : You see , my mom right , she says some words to me , right , sometimes , right , wha' I ca n't understand you know an' I sort of start laughin' , but then again right , y' know , I can understand some o' de words which she says to me y' know — I even speak it back to her , y' see . |
| 35 | The first time I visit the Ladies ' Pond , I exclaim to Kelly , ‘ It 's like a Fellini film , ’ to which she says in a lazy Scottish brogue , ‘ Perhaps … |
| 36 | A woman with an ‘ afflicted ’ husband told the 1888 Select Committee on Sweating that she ‘ finished ’ four pairs of trousers a day , for which she made at most 1/2d , that her wages were 4d per day less than four years previously , and that after paying her rent , she had 5/ a week on which to keep her three children , her husband and herself . |
| 37 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 38 | Franca was amazed at her sudden power to develop vivid visual images of her mental states , a power which she had never exercised before , and which she thought of , not without satisfaction , as being perhaps a symptom of incipient madness . |
| 39 | ‘ Ingested that from which she died at that meal ? ’ |
| 40 | Our problem is that while Mrs Iverson appears to have ingested that from which she died at the dinner party there is no dish from which some or all the guests did not share . ’ |
| 41 | During the few moments in which she paused in her ascent to the church she reflected that now she was looking at the view the other way round ; now she was in one of the overcrowded little alleys visible from San Martino as merely a crack in a vast expanse of roof tiles and crumbling masonry and noticeable from that lofty vantage point because of the fluttering of the washing hung out on poles over the street to dry . |
| 42 | 1 A term used by Mary Finocchiaro , which she defines as the natural out growth of a lesson . |
| 43 | Two of the tracks from those sessions have surfaced on the new album , including one , I 'm told , which she co-wrote with Mike Scott . |
| 44 | She spoke at intervals about moving herself and Marcus out of the flat ( which she agreed to be horrid ) perhaps to another flat or to some vaguely envisaged country cottage . |
| 45 | The vignoble produced a reasonable vin rose which she drank like water every lunchtime . |
| 46 | Ruth too had wine which she drank in greedy little sips . |
| 47 | But tossed about by a cruel world , Iris is not the sort of girl who quietly puts up with her destiny — just as the flower beneath which she reads for a moment , while a woman 's revenge wreaks horrible havoc in the final minutes , is not just an ordinary cactus . |
| 48 | In the original version , now lost , of the chapter in which she reads to Raskolnikov the gospel story of the raising of Lazarus , Dostoevsky intended and wrote a head-on debate about Christianity ; but his publishers refused to print it . |
| 49 | Ivy might have said ) fills her empty life by writing fantastic love-letters to herself which she reads to her employer . |
| 50 | As we passed Number 110 , I spotted Mrs Shorrocks staring at me out of the window , sporting her usual black eye and a mass of different coloured bruises which she collected from Bert most Saturday nights . |
| 51 | She has a health card , which she produces to the cops on demand . |
| 52 | She almost hisses , and Xanthe and Miranda understand this word because one of Miranda 's special treasures , which she keeps in her treasure drawer under lock and key , but has shown Xanthe in a moment of love , is a figure of Jesus on the cross which glows greeny-white under the bedclothes if you 've shone a torch on it beforehand and saturated it with light . |
| 53 | In L'Estrange v. Graucob ( 1934 C.A. ) a café proprietress bought a vending machine on the terms of a Sales Agreement which she signed without having read . |
| 54 | After that , says Mr Gardner , Miss Richardson will come racing back to attend the December premieres in Paris and London of Damage , the Louis Malle adaption of Josephine Hart 's novel about a middle-aged man obsessed with his son 's fiancee , in which she stars with Jeremy Irons . |
| 55 | WHITNEY HOUSTON : ‘ I Will Always Love You ’ soul power-ballad composed by Dolly Parton and one of six Whitney tracks featured on the forthcoming soundtrack to the US movie The Bodyguard , in which she stars alongside Kevin Costner |
| 56 | In the third and highest phase of development the child understands the way in which she differs from and is interdependent with the outside world , and once again feels ‘ at home ’ in the world . |
| 57 | On his death , Mrs. Fielding had her husband 's ashes put in a specially-made cask which she kept on her dressing table in her bedroom . |
| 58 | She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’ |
| 59 | She was a stunning twenty-eight-year-old with a near perfect figure , which she kept in shape with regular aerobics classes , and she had a friendly , outgoing disposition . |
| 60 | She was always writing on little pieces of paper , which she kept in a locked drawer in her room , and every morning she got up surprisingly early to go down to the kitchen . |