Example sentences of "that she [vb past] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penelope wished now that she had worn a dress or suit instead of the elegant tartan trews , but they had seemed the only way to make Rupert Stonebird notice her . |
| 2 | ‘ Would n't it be lovely if Terry was one of them ? ’ a colleague said , but Sarah said quietly that she had received a letter from him and knew when he would arrive . |
| 3 | Kit hugged herself with pleasure at the thought that she had raised a son who would be an engineer . |
| 4 | Down on the steps , Marie had decided that she had made a mistake . |
| 5 | She was beginning to feel that she had made a mistake , and allowed herself to be exploited . |
| 6 | I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too . |
| 7 | She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning . |
| 8 | A girl lunged over the grid , screaming that she had made a mistake , fingers just missing the disappearing chips . |
| 9 | But Albert was so sure that she had made a Will … |
| 10 | And , although she was rapidly coming to the conclusion that she had made a fool of herself all down the line , she still did n't quite know how . |
| 11 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 12 | No doubt he exaggerated ( such was his wont where his conscience was concerned ) ; yet the only news she had received from Em herself had not been happy ; and now — to learn that she had suffered a miscarriage in that desert place at such a time of year , and that she had not felt able to share the grief of it with her own affectionate sister … |
| 13 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 14 | Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind . |
| 15 | These words are well past her point of failure in the Schonell Test ( that is , ten consecutive errors ) , and so it is possible that she had reached a level of frustration : feeling that all the words were too difficult she ceased to think carefully about whether what she was writing down was likely , and simply put down anything that came to mind . |
| 16 | It was true that she had missed a period , but that could mean anything or nothing . |
| 17 | It seemed that she had had a row with her man and that he had left . |
| 18 | June Rogers reported that she had had a meeting with parents interested in improving the play area at the Sun Hill recreation ground . |
| 19 | In a £500,000 damages action at the Court of Session , she had said that she had had a collapse after being injected with anaesthetic drugs in the operating theatre . |
| 20 | She had been studying for her A levels however when , after discovering that she had smuggled a pining and off-his-food spaniel up to her bedroom to sleep one night , her father had put some of her own recent doubts into words . |
| 21 | The room was very dim , he saw that she had suspended a shawl over the light , so that it shone dappled on walls and ceiling above . |
| 22 | Surely she had n't gone out again , forgetting that she had left a friend waiting on the telephone ? |
| 23 | Now she had to let her husband know , oh-so-artlessly , that she had set a guard on Marion that he could n't break without scandal . |
| 24 | The first thing we talked about was how wearing the camisole top had made her feel self-conscious , and how glad she was that she had put a shirt over it . |
| 25 | Jackman has played Martin twice in the last eight months and lost both times , but Jackman was buoyed by the fact that she had taken a game off her on each occasion . |
| 26 | This story did not impress the court who took the view that she had used a knife to cut off the head soon after its birth , and eventually she had to admit the truth . |
| 27 | In the morning we discovered that she had caught a fever , as a result of getting wet . |
| 28 | Despite her earlier fears , she proved to be an excellent subject , probably due in part to her desperation to be helped and partly to the fact that she had spent a week practising the relaxation technique and listening to my voice on cassette , so that she was comfortable with both . |
| 29 | She could n't remember the last time that she 'd invited a man into her home , and now it made her feel uneasy to watch Luke Calder inspecting all these snippets of her life . |
| 30 | But when I drove to London to collect her as we 'd arranged , I found that she 'd had a phone call less than an hour previously to say that Barney was ill . |