Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky . |
| 2 | Fascinating to watch : how she smoothed down the shard of the totem to make it a circle , to flatten it out ; how she trimmed and chipped to make the natural lines flow ; how she scored out the eyes , the mouth ; how she touched colour with her fingers to emphasize the woman in the land , in the mask ; how the dead wood began to live and breathe . |
| 3 | Fascinating to watch : how she smoothed down the shard of the totem to make it a circle , to flatten it out ; how she trimmed and chipped to make the natural lines flow ; how she scored out the eyes , the mouth ; how she touched colour with her fingers to emphasize the woman in the land , in the mask ; how the dead wood began to live and breathe . |
| 4 | Time passing never softened the impact of that moment when she looked down the table to where Twomey waited for Aunt Tossie to give her attention to the pudding he offered . |
| 5 | ‘ I warn you — I 'm not going to pull any punches , ’ Howard tells Miriam when she comes back the following week with the film crew . |
| 6 | " But is it really likely , sir , that the call was intended to delay the finding of the body and to give the killer time to replace the keys ? admittedly Mrs. Bidwell could be expected to be first in the Biology Department this morning when she put out the clean coats . |
| 7 | The Isis was not a line-of-battle ship , but like the Adamant she acted as one in the battle of Camperdown in October 1797 , when she set about the much heavier Gelijkheid ( 64 guns ) , one of the eleven Dutch ships that were taken . |
| 8 | Garvey stood her up on the beer-stained trestle where she stamped out the rhythm with one foot and played jigs on her pipe . |
| 9 | I was the first visitor that she had had since she was transferred from ‘ Grisly ’ Risley Remand Centre in Cheshire , where she sat out the murder and fraud trials . |