Example sentences of "[Wh det] she [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her debut for Harper 's Bazaar she reviews The Lover , which she says reminds her of her own movie , Pretty Baby . |
| 2 | She disliked the photograph of herself in shorts , which she thought made her look fat ; in fact she looked remarkably fit for a fifty-two-year-old . |
| 3 | There was something vaguely odd about Sally-Anne McAllister and the farrago to which she had treated them . |
| 4 | One night , waiting in her car outside a pub to which she had followed him , she suddenly found herself crying for the first time . |
| 5 | He would look up from his newspaper after supper to find her eyes fixed on him , in a way which brought back to him the passion with which she had kissed him upon the moor . |
| 6 | He arranged bridging-loans and a mortgage to make up the price of the tall house with the basement into which she had decided he should move as a lodger , abandoning his awful little bed-sit in Chepstow Road . |
| 7 | He recalled other ways in which she had led him on ; the snowy mittened fingers laid on his arm during their walks , the occasional side-glance as if to show that he did not displease her , her endurance , to say the least , of his company . |
| 8 | He joined her in the kitchen , and she saw that the descriptions which had reached her through the field telegraph and by which she had recognised him , were accurate . |
| 9 | The handshake with which she had greeted him had been cool and firm and her brief smile was surprisingly attractive . |
| 10 | Her eyes were black as voids , heightened by the black eyeshadow and mascara with which she had augmented them . |
| 11 | In the early days she had had lots of quiet opinions , he remembered , which she had offered him , shyly slyly , couched as a kind of invitation or bait . |
| 12 | No one is ever fully prepared for bereavement , and even if her husband 's terminal illness was one from which she had known he could not hope to recover , his death will still have come as a shock to her which may create a feeling of numbness and unreality : . |
| 13 | In the alleyway in which she had found him he had been protected from the evening surge of the wind , but as they began to walk towards the west it seemed to attack him . |
| 14 | Since then , since the whole-hearted and selfless manner in which she had helped him , and had comforted him after Effie 's death — he remembered her saying gently to him when he had railed against Fate and his own incompetence , ‘ Do n't , Dr Neil , do n't . |
| 15 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |
| 16 | R. J. left her with a few of his abstruse sayings , which she believed meant he was telling her not to worry too much ; it was difficult to tell . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's far too hot for this climate , ’ she retorted flatly , her cheeks flushing as she turned away from those cynical , all-seeing eyes , beneath which she 'd felt she was being mentally undressed . |
| 18 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 19 | The owner of the London stage school which she attends said she turned up to school every day with the right lunch money and with her uniform clean . |
| 20 | Louise now greatly regretted having made Fleury the green coat , which she feared made him too conspicuous … and it was a fact that the sepoy sharpshooters could seldom resist trying to hit this brilliant green target . |
| 21 | The early novels will be analysed in relation both to Brooke-Rose 's conceptual concerns during this period and to the fictional conventions through which she chose to figure them . |
| 22 | ‘ It was hardly a matter on which she needed to consult me and , in fact , she did not . |
| 23 | ‘ In the cruel manner in which she tried to prise me out of my home . ’ |
| 24 | There they also hatch and develop , sustained by the yolk with which she has endowed them . |
| 25 | But as for what she had exchanged it for — that still seemed more like fantasy than waking reality . |
| 26 | When she realised what she had said she blushed . |
| 27 | In fact they never discussed what she had given him ; Boy sensed that this was a private matter , something to think about but not talk about . |
| 28 | If she returned to the Hall and told her father what she had endured she would be forbidden to return — that was what must happen . |
| 29 | Mortified at what she had done she leapt out of her seat and collided with a waiter , sending the plate of egg fried rice he was carrying flying through the air . |
| 30 | He was well read and intelligent , she knew , he was respected by his men , and from what she had gathered he was a natural leader who always dealt firmly but fairly with the employers to get the best deal he could . |