Example sentences of "she [vb past] that [pron] was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly Shelley could n't see , and she realised that it was her tears that had blinded her . |
| 2 | Previously , she would have been driven by my father , but she announced that it was her intention to travel , alone , by train . |
| 3 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 4 | She joked that it was her favourite occupation . |
| 5 | His dry sense of humour still had the capacity to make her lips twitch in amusement , even as she recognised that there was nothing remotely amusing about the way she felt about him . |
| 6 | When she reached the school gate she discovered that there was no-one there . |
| 7 | At length she decided that there was nothing to be gained by worrying her . |
| 8 | It was just a place where she had been left , and as she grew out of infancy she knew that it was her mother who had left her there . |
| 9 | Of course , having always possessed an interest in astrology , she knew that it was her Arien opposition that made her react so whenever she was under threat . |
| 10 | On her return she knew that it was he who had plucked the sting but she was afraid that too demonstrative a show of gratitude might be misinterpreted . |
| 11 | But she had lived with a dragon for over ten years , and she had lived in a house filled with strong women , so she knew that there was something very wrong with that scenario . |
| 12 | It was just that she knew that there was something seriously wrong with her — something far more dramatic than a grumbling appendix or the normal after-effects of an operation . |
| 13 | It was darker inside the cottage than she had expected , and as soon as she had opened the door , she knew that there was something terribly wrong . |
| 14 | At this critical juncture in her life she felt that there was no-one in whom she could confide . |
| 15 | For her part , she felt that he was someone to whom she could open her heart and who would understand . |
| 16 | " When the Madam gave me the keys and deeds of this house in Easter week , 1916 , she said that it was mine , that she had no further use for it . |
| 17 | Training to be a teacher and with a wisdom that belied her years , she explained that it was her half-brother who was now living in Mainz and had suggested that Erich ( the Dusseldorfer ) travel down to Tonga to look for a wife . |