Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 2 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 3 | She broke up the partnership with exhaustive cunning , prising Arthur away with weapons of sexual mortification that she knew he would never describe to a living soul , least of all to Fred , because she was Fred 's loved wife . |
| 4 | ‘ It says in the Daily Mirror that she fancies me , ’ he boasts lightheartedly . |
| 5 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 6 | Miss Logan was near-sighted , and consequently it was from Miss Fergusson 's features rather than from personal observation that she grasped what was happening . |
| 7 | Pauline , who always had back problems , felt so sorry for the little mare that she took her over from Jackie . |
| 8 | James Callaghan , who had replaced Wilson as prime minister , issued an official denial and Mrs. Margaret Thatcher , the leader of the opposition , put out a brief supporting statement that she shared his confidence in DI5 . |
| 9 | It was as she came to the end of her enthusiastic little speech that she realised she was leaning halfway across his desk , so close that she could almost have counted his lashes and the tiny fine lines around the corners of his mouth . |
| 10 | I still had a formless feeling that she understood me where my mother did not . |
| 11 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , wife of the Ambassador to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople , was so impressed with the results of this folk practice by the Sultan 's Greek subjects that she had her children treated and introduced fashionable society to its advantages in 1721 ; as much for the protection of complexion as for the preservation of health . |
| 12 | The hall into which she stepped was not a hall at all , but a large and very high room , with doors leading off it in most directions , and it was so full of unexpected things that she found it hard to know where to look first . |
| 13 | He was smiling as if he recognized her , and she had a queer , uncanny feeling that she knew him very well … |
| 14 | Those plans hit the rocks amid reports that Jacko was horrified when Madonna told a gay magazine that she wanted him to hang out with a gay dance troupe and become more hip . |
| 15 | He drove so smoothly and the tyres hummed so pleasantly on the tarred road that she knew she could easily have slept . |
| 16 | So the very fact that she observes her price to be higher than the average price level she was originally expecting may make her adjust upwards her expected average price level . |
| 17 | His look as he glanced across at her resembled so much that of a shamefaced small boy that she found it hard to control a smile . |
| 18 | Mrs Maria Ashmore , from Chalgrove in Oxfordshire told an industrial tribunal that she lost her job as a credit controller with Buckinghamshire-based Wellcom Business Communications , after she announced she was having a baby . |
| 19 | Her with the withered paralyzed arm that she bashed you with because she could n't clear it and you blooming well could . |
| 20 | It was while she was sampling her genuine Spanish paella that she remembered something Mrs Maybury had said . |
| 21 | For dread — the old , quivering dread that she thought she had long left behind her — was settling in her bosom . |
| 22 | Startled , Laura glanced quickly up at him , and met such a warm , infectious grin that she found herself smiling nervously back in return . |
| 23 | In these moments of gilded sensuality she had the wonderful feeling that she knew everything she needed to know , right here , and right now , right beneath her fingertips . |
| 24 | Her shoulders sagged in defeat and it became clear to the watching man that she accepted their veracity . |
| 25 | But the long weekend was on the strict understanding that she pay her own way . |
| 26 | He was absently scrutinising her set face , projecting an air of such unshakeable self-confidence that she mourned her own reserves of self-esteem . |
| 27 | It was such a non-threatening touch that she allowed him to leave it there . |
| 28 | She scolded him then , in her cheerful way that she knew he did n't mind . |
| 29 | Jean so enjoyed the challenge of her new job that she asked her husband , Peter , then a watch salesman , to help her move the heavy rolls of fabric , put up shelves and pictures and generally bring some order to the store . |
| 30 | It was only the other day that she showed them to me . |