Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] she [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says that I said she looked like a bloody parrot . |
| 2 | I said that I understood she came from the Continent , and she told me that she was born in Denmark . |
| 3 | Not that I minded her coming in every day , just did n't , not always that time . |
| 4 | Deborah is confident and outspoken and had mentioned to me that she felt her sense of herself as ‘ not bad-looking ’ , and her lack of any real anxieties about her weight or body was largely due to her mother . |
| 5 | I am distraught to learn of the demise of your mother and shut my ears to the ugly rumour that you had her put to death so that you could take up ballet-dancing . |
| 6 | We had been going on the idea that whoever killed her lunged at her when she was standing up : a thrust parallel to the ground . ’ |
| 7 | Victoria and Kay were so impressed with her rapport with the children that they asked her to work in the morning as well . |
| 8 | She glanced up at the blackened night sky , pin-pointed with stars so wondrous that it made her feel like crying , and wished she were home , warm and safe in bed . |
| 9 | Geoff Tulloch once advanced the opinion that it made her look like an air hostess . |
| 10 | Not that it stopped her talking about the Jesus who was the centre of her life . |
| 11 | Not by even one sign had he shown that he wanted her to stay in any capacity at all . |
| 12 | The Lorrimores , all four of them , arrived together to murmurs of sympathy , but the two young ones split off immediately from their parents and from each other , all of them gravitating to their various havens : the parents went to join Filmer and Daffodil of their own free will , Xanthe made a straight piteous line to Mrs Young , and Sheridan grabbed hold of Nell , who was by this time standing , saying that he needed her to sit with him , she was the only decent human being on the whole damn train . |
| 13 | But I am sure that what determined her to write to me was this paragraph : ‘ The author we most admire has rightly said that people do not know about families ; but Stephen and I know . |