Example sentences of "[that] she [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The idea of school was so soothing that she hung on to it tightly .
2 He let it go at that , smiling to himself as he suggested to Iris Sunderby that she go up to her room and put her things together .
3 It was something of a standing joke that she lived up to her Libran indecisiveness .
4 But there was no answer when she knocked on Louise 's door , nor when she tried another new friend 's door at the far end of the passage , and this was so discouraging that she went back to her own room and cried till her blue eyes wre red-rimmed and swollen .
5 He strode off and Maggie was so angry that she went back to her room and missed breakfast .
6 But its brightness was dimming quickly and its shafts withdrawing from the near buildings and then further and further away across the roofs , so that she ran out into it to catch some before it should go beyond her reach .
7 Britain believed that she came out of it very well .
8 They touch down , and he pushes off again , taking her arm so that she glides up with him in spite of herself .
9 But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 .
10 As the taxi stopped , he saw that she pushed back onto her finger her narrow and plain gold ring .
11 I still thought she should be keener , however , so I knocked yet another half an ounce off her flying weight , until she was so eager that she set off towards me virtually the moment she saw me putting on the glove .
12 You say you met my daughter on the train to Boston , that she was running away from home , that she ended up on your doorstep when her brother refused to house her ? ’
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