Example sentences of "she [adv] [verb] that it [be] " in BNC.

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1 Belinda wondered how on earth they were going to get it up the stairs and through the house , but she sensibly decided that it was their concern , not hers , and anyway the bedroom needed to be vacuumed first .
2 Her first instinct was to cover her ears , but she soon realized that it was not going to get any quieter , and let her hands fall to her sides .
3 But she soon realized that it was not by chance , as it was Angel Clare who sent the cows in for milking .
4 I asked her how she knew and she just said that she always thought that it was obvious .
5 He felt her grow rigid at his touch , made it so light that she hardly knew that it was there .
6 In her heart of hearts she still suspected that it was , but the charmed garden of Sebastian and his friends opened to her so easily , so seductively , that what could she do but step inside ?
7 From the pink frilly garment , Clara would have deduced that the baby must be a girl , but she clearly remembered that it was called James .
8 She also knew that it was probably quite beyond Mrs Bennett to appreciate that a trained nanny , even as young and nice a one as Karen , would not take kindly to being asked to do anything other than the job for which she had been engaged .
9 She also knew that it was her priority to get her father , physically impaired since his stroke , down the aisle .
10 One feminist , Mrs Wolstenholme-Elmy ( who as a young woman determined to follow Mary Wollstonecraft 's example and live with her lover , until on becoming pregnant she took the advice of fellow suffragists and married ) accepted the idea that menstruation was essentially pathological , although she also argued that it was caused by men 's brutality .
11 She also said that it was better to eat left-over meat in Lent than go to market and incur debt through buying fish ( 241 , p.128 ) .
12 And she also realised that it was not her job to heal the hurts of the whole world — though certainly her very nature leaned in that direction .
13 Although she often maintained that it was her own choice not to attend , she told an American interviewer , I would love to go to board meetings where he [ Bernard ] is chairman but I 'm not invited .
14 Kathleen had run home , and she now understood that it was , on this occasion , for reassurance , as though , by conveying the news to her sister , she would convey by implication something of her own anxiety , and receive comfort in Isabel 's own concern .
15 She never forgets that it 's Howard to whom they all owe their place in the new order of things .
16 Although Laura had great faith in Gwenny , she never doubted that it was a mother 's place to be with her child .
17 Perhaps she too thought that it was my fault , that I enjoyed it , that I was as bad as he was , or even worse . ’
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