Example sentences of "[Wh det] she [adv] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Wendy Mountford was living in a house belonging to Mr Roger Street , under a written agreement headed " Licence " , in which she expressly agreed she had no Rent Act protection . |
| 2 | To gossip about diaries in which she allegedly rated her lovers ' sexual prowess . |
| 3 | In 1988 , Julie had a year like Helen Dobson 's , a year in which she never felt she could lose . |
| 4 | It was expected from her young people , by which she really meant her customers . |
| 5 | Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ . |
| 6 | Niall gave her a long searching look from which she purposely averted her gaze . |
| 7 | So , over the years there had been a number of leather bags added to those under the loose floor boards beneath the bed in which she now spent her nights and , in her time , expected to die … |
| 8 | Surely the very power which she now felt she possessed would enlighten her later about how it was to be exercised . |
| 9 | This psychological edifice , to the creation and maintenance of which she now devoted her energy , she pictured as a kind of large machine erected inside her body , stretching it out and making her tall and rigid like a hard glistening monument . |
| 10 | It was n't fair , just or right for the Signora to come before the hour appointed ; she should have been admitted by Giovanna herself and the keys should have remained hanging on their appointed hook ; the other set being in the pocket of Giovanna 's overall from which she now drew them and held them up making it clear that they would be relinquished only upon her death and then only into the hands of Signor Kettering . |
| 11 | Unfortunately there was nothing fictitious about the situation in which she now found herself — and one which she really must resolve as soon as possible . |
| 12 | ‘ When you went shopping together here , did she ever say anything about the way in which she usually spent her allowance ? ’ |
| 13 | Not totally sure she actually wanted to illuminate what she already knew she was going to find , she snapped down the switch and stared disagreeably at the glistening drops that plopped relentlessly on to the dresser . |
| 14 | None too happy with what she privately termed her daughter-in-law 's faint-hearted response , the queen-dowager sat lost in thought for a minute . |
| 15 | Marjorie had only told her what she had really always known — or , rather , what she now felt she had always known and hypocritically ignored . |