Example sentences of "that she [verb] [pers pn] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hand curled around the back of her neck , slipping under the heavy weight of her hair , and she shuddered violently , her whole body so tense that she felt she would shatter into a thousand tiny pieces . |
| 2 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |
| 3 | What Eleanor did tell him however , was that she was about to go on holiday but that she hoped he would come to a meal in her flat when she returned . |
| 4 | And they talked to her , most politely : the Martin man asked her when she was doing her Finals , and she told him , and he asked her what she was going to do then , and she said that she thought she would do a teacher 's training course . |
| 5 | He put his hands on her shoulders , towering over her , his powerful body so compelling that she thought she would fall if he let her go . |
| 6 | An endless falling through time and space , and ecstasy so intense that she thought she would die . |
| 7 | He was looking at her with such tenderness and love that she thought she would faint from sheer happiness . |
| 8 | The hand under hers clenched on the settee cushion , his face went red , and his eyes flashed such vindictive rage for a moment that she thought he would hit her , then he controlled himself , sitting silently by her on the settee , until she felt his hand gradually relax . |
| 9 | Arabel was once quoted as being terrified by a performance of Tchaikovsky 's Pathétique Symphony in Berlin so intense that she thought it would kill you . |
| 10 | Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret . |
| 11 | There was n't a spare bed , for a start — but the main thing was that she knew it would annoy Alan . |
| 12 | He really was the most annoying , irritating man she had ever met , and if it had n't been for the fact that she knew he would carry out his threat and have her sacked she would have refused point-blank to go tonight . |
| 13 | I recall one occasion when Mother was so busy trying to finish knitting a quilt — I 've still got it somewhere that she said she would have to miss a service . |
| 14 | Not that she imagined she would have any difficulty finding a job . |
| 15 | Through a swell of tears Ruth stared incredulously at the bundle and felt such despair that she feared she would drop the child . |
| 16 | She had also passed the exam that she feared she would fail . |
| 17 | The girls did not know that Tess cried even more at this , and that she decided she would tell Angel all her history . |