Example sentences of "he [vb past] [that] she [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Then he realised that she had n't recognised the slap of the rifle .
2 To his surprise , she did not reply but looked at him so vaguely that he inferred that she had not heard him .
3 He noticed that she looked very flushed .
4 Although she swung round quickly , he noticed that she did not seem all that startled .
5 He added that she had not given him her London address .
6 He guessed that she had not yet taken the man his breakfast .
7 But it was n't until Ellen came to pick him up that he discovered that she had already bought everything for a picnic lunch .
8 He encouraged her to take public baths , he saw that she ate properly — though indifferent to food himself — and behaved with her like a caring mother , the kind of affectionate mother who had always inspired him .
9 As the taxi stopped , he saw that she pushed back onto her finger her narrow and plain gold ring .
10 He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose .
11 And he knew that she did n't believe him .
12 What on earth did he think he knew that she did n't ?
13 Sometimes he suspected that she had even known how diminished was his remaining store of faith , that it was this essential lack and not his general inadequacy which was at the core of her disdain .
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