Example sentences of "she [verb] that the [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was just wondering if she 'd been given the wrong one when she realised that the door was n't locked . |
| 2 | For a moment she thought she would find the courage to say something about it , but then she realised that the timing was all wrong . |
| 3 | Then she realised that the sensation was becoming too pleasant , and she tried once more to pull away . |
| 4 | Before panic could set in she realised that the fire was burning merrily again and that a billycan of water was starting to steam . |
| 5 | So devastated were they when she announced that the term was due to end last week for a long Easter break that they begged her to let them continue . |
| 6 | She checked that the sentry was out of earshot , and told him what she had heard . |
| 7 | As she lifted it out , she realized that the backing was beginning to come away from the heavy cream cardboard of the mount . |
| 8 | She realized that the child was smiling straight at her but she was too tired to engage with her , too detached to make contact , too hidden to do anything but take a photograph and her fingers felt too weak even to do this . |
| 9 | She dried her eyes presently because she realized that the Magistrate was watching her from not far away . |
| 10 | But more important , she realized that the gesture was available to all and thus did not really belong to her : when she waved her arm , she was actually committing theft or forgery . |
| 11 | Although we know nothing of her education , she writes that the Countess was ‘ directed ’ by a mother famed for her furtherance of Protestant and humanist learning , Catharine Bertie , dowager Duchess of Suffolk [ q.v. ] , and we may suppose that more than usual attention was paid to her reading . |
| 12 | The nurse 's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child . |
| 13 | She reported that the diet was particularly suitable for her , just as it was for those with a high cholesterol level . |
| 14 | When she had unlocked and taken off the wooden lid , she found that the needle was not broken , after all . |
| 15 | Surely she accepts that the Government were right to provide compensation for haemophiliacs who became infected through contaminated blood factor 8 . |
| 16 | She says that the bird was sick when it first hatched , so she nursed it ; now it thinks she 's it 's mother . |
| 17 | She says that the hospital were pleased that the GP acted so quickly . |
| 18 | Big Cassie was telling me a story about a couple of riveters that worked together , a family , brothers or cousins or something , and er she says that the guy was a riveter , he used to Maybe if the guy was on the inside holding , on the riveter on the outside this I 'm sure she said they were brothers , he would shout one of them from outside you know , shout his name and the boy would look through the hole you know , and he 's he would spit on him he would spit through the hole . |
| 19 | She says that the prosecution was a wasste of time and money . |
| 20 | She noticed that the toe was scuffed and the shoes would need mending . |
| 21 | She noticed that the man was very handsome in a stolid , heavy-lidded , way . |
| 22 | As she confirmed her identity , she noticed that the policeman was blushing . |
| 23 | One day , when Chola was releasing the hens from the coop , she noticed that the cockerel was missing . |
| 24 | Through a haze of despair she noticed that the Sheriff was still frowning at her . |
| 25 | Soon she declared that the sauna was suffocating ; after repeating once more how she hated modesty , she got up and left . |
| 26 | Some time later , she acknowledged that the task was not proving to be as easy as she had expected . |
| 27 | She guessed that the earthquake was responsible for his presence , since flights in and out of Taipei were functioning normally again already , but whatever concern had brought him was unlikely to be personal . |
| 28 | However , this view was not shared by Valerie Way , especially when she discovered that the head was not on the interviewing committee . |
| 29 | Looking down from the balcony on to the terrace , she observed that the cat was undisturbed by the gulls . |
| 30 | Mrs Whitehouse 's response was again immediate , and she says that she thought that the poem was ‘ like the recrucifixion of Christ , only this time with twentieth-century weapons ’ . |