Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She admitted later that she came thinking this was just some hare-brained scheme , but left with the understanding that it was a well-thought-out and well-planned idea . |
| 2 | Leaving the clinic she realised suddenly that she wanted to go to her garden . |
| 3 | In fact she agreed cheerfully that she liked to see the whites of the eyes of any constable stupid enough to encounter her with tie undone or shirt unbuttoned . |
| 4 | She realized now that she loathed distortion , that she would never lay this ghost because this ghost was real , this ghost was her and this ghost was forever . |
| 5 | Yet each time that third line came round the tune seemed to gather itself up and find new energy from somewhere , and perhaps it did n't fall quite so far each time in the fourth , and Tabitha was captivated despite herself , watching the pretty man play and wondering how he would end it , how he could ever resolve the disagreement between the rush and the ebb , until she realized suddenly that he had , with a quiet , lilting little rill that ran up and then down and flicked its tail and was gone . |
| 6 | Six weeks later she reported back that she had been very well on holiday with no travel-sickness or stomach problems but since returning home the digestive symptoms had gradually increased in intensity . |
| 7 | She doubted then that he had felt very much like climbing trees or swimming in the river for some long while after he had lost his parents . |
| 8 | She explained the minister 's ill-treatment of her as revenge for her withdrawal of an annual gift of £8 to the parish church when she found out that he had attempted to publish her charity . |
| 9 | She noticed belligerently that he did add ginger ale to the brandy . |
| 10 | It was only when she came out that she noticed the carriage they were driving back in . |
| 11 | She commented afterwards that she had made no money on the venture : ‘ I lost nothing , neither did I gain much , others run away with the profit . ’ |
| 12 | She swallowed so that she did n't sound as if she was shell-shocked . |
| 13 | Later she worked out that she had been kept underground for four months . |
| 14 | She called back that she did n't . |
| 15 | Mme Fournier was still in the car , she called out that she had only come to deliver a message . |
| 16 | She thought uncharitably that he looked like a gangster , although there was nothing menacing in the smile that played on his lips whenever he addressed Simone . |
| 17 | She thought ruefully that she had been pretty unfair . |
| 18 | She could n't remember whether the stories were true or not , but she thought dimly that they had both hoped they were . |
| 19 | She thought suddenly that she had taken Dr Neil for granted , that she had not fully realised either his hard work or his dedication , and for the first time understood the impulse which had caused him to leave the cushioned life of a younger son of a good family and become an East End doctor instead . |
| 20 | Perceiving all this , she knew also that it made no difference . |
| 21 | She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew . |
| 22 | No matter that she had n't understood the broken phrases gasped from Rune 's lips as he had devoured her with his kisses ; she knew instinctively that they had been an expression of his desire for her in that sweet moment of culmination . |
| 23 | With unashamed interest , he studied her anxious , freshly scrubbed face , and she found herself responding to the arrival at last of his faint , elusive smile , her limpid eyes softening with warmth because she knew instinctively that he smiled rarely and that she was privileged . |
| 24 | She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning . |
| 25 | ‘ Nature-lover , ’ he teased , and she knew then that she held him in some quite high regard . |
| 26 | But she knew now that he lived in a state near total despair , his life so meaningless he did n't know how to live it , his one certainty that he had to find Jake and Fincara . |
| 27 | She knew now that she loved him , yet , at times , she seemed to hate him . |
| 28 | She saw immediately that she had said the wrong thing . |
| 29 | She saw now that he held a clipboard . |
| 30 | She felt sometimes that he did n't know how spirited she could be , and this would certainly have shown him ! |