Example sentences of "which she [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Prunskiene , who had resigned as Prime Minister on Jan. 8 , 1991 [ see p. 37944 ] , consistently denied the accusations ( made in April — see p. 38880 ) , claiming that a document bearing her signature in which she agreed to work for the KGB was a forgery and that the trial was politically motivated .
2 As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum .
3 They hoped that the dynamic forces released by socialism would generate new wealth , enabling Britain to stride the world once more in a continuing and -equal partnership with the United States , rather than as the American satellite which she had become in the latter phases of the Second World War .
4 She ran down the stairs , unbolted the heavy wooden door and was off , running in her nightdress , barefoot across the garden , holding the torch which she had snatched from the chest in the entrance hall .
5 She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards .
6 Comments which she had made to the Washington Post after the Los Angeles riots — including the remark that " if black people kill black people every day , why not have a week killing white people ? " — were , Clinton said , " filled with a kind of hatred that you do not honour tonight " .
7 She put up her hands in a gesture reminiscent of the one which she had made in the attic , when she had been still fearful of him and of all men , but the gesture was as much for Havvie as for him .
8 Somehow Dr Neil 's touch did not seem to affect her as badly as that of most men , even though in the cab home sitting so near to him nearly brought on the kind of faintness which she had felt on the walk home from church .
9 Furious but civil , he had offered to go round to her flat to see her , an offer which she had declined with the first sign of decisiveness she had been heard to display .
10 In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney .
11 Thus , Barker ( 1984 ) , in her study of the Moonies , gave a questionnaire similar to that which she had given to the Moonies to a group of people who were matched with the Moonies with respect to sex , age , and background .
12 Further shocks were to come : the reason behind Diana 's sometimes gaunt appearance was her battle with the binge-and-vomit eating disorder bulimia , from which she had suffered since the first year of her marriage .
13 She did not pause for an answer , but bent down and snatched up a roll of paper which she had placed on the floor beside her when she first sat down .
14 20–6 Mrs McIver , wife of the Moderator , asked to be relieved of the duty of leader of praise which she had undertaken for the past two years .
15 Across the room , nursing the remnants of his coffee , warming himself , the tall , thin creep was greatly impressed by the delicacy and decorum with which she had reacted to the West Indian 's vulgar demonstration of how to ruin a piece of pie .
16 She rummaged through the assorted pile , looking for her new lipstick and perfume , and spotted the mail which she had collected from the postman first thing , on her way to the shops .
17 Yet , on the day when Harriet saw her off on Penzance station she was afraid that the new way of life Liza had now embarked upon would prove very far removed from that which she had spent under the dedicated care of her former headmistress , Miss Everett .
18 The grief which she had shown over the death of her father seemed to have been replaced by a kind of nervous irritability .
19 Her real destination was Fleet Street and the offices of the weekly Clarion Cry , but she could hardly inform Dr Neil or Matey of that interesting fact — it did n't quite fit the sad picture which she had drawn of the friendless , abandoned orphan without employment — not that the money which she earned from the Clarion would have kept her .
20 There was a glass-fronted mahogany cupboard where Ellen insisted on keeping Bernard 's family photographs , which she had found at the bottom of a suitcase .
21 At last , with her right arm in a sling and a large piece of plaster on her forehead , which she had knocked against the post , she was taken up to Mr Fennell 's suite .
22 So Carol ran into the hall and fetched the broom — which her mummy said was properly called a besom , and which she had used as the witch 's broom in the play .
23 She reached into her saddlebag and drew out a small cloth containing white clay which she had taken from Wynne-Jones 's lodge and which she had used in the making of Moondream .
24 When Aunt Grove died in 1840 , she left money to fund the school for poor children which she had founded in the village .
25 While they drank to celebrate the arrangement , Mrs Corney told Mr Bumble about old Sally 's death , and the unknown gold object which she had stolen from the dead body of the young woman .
26 She frowned at his prescription sheet , which she had removed from the bed-table when she called me out .
27 Of course it had belonged among those unhappy mad thoughts which she had had in the last days .
28 But in her relief Nenna forgot the quiet reasonable remarks which she had rehearsed at the bus stops , and in the buses , all the way to Stoke Newington .
29 She started with a few pounds , about four thousand pounds which she managed to wangle from the local bank manager , a great vision , an enthusiasm but very little experience .
30 She had never been quite the calm resolute individual which she managed to appear to the rest of the world .
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