Example sentences of "[noun] that she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret . |
| 2 | Er as you can see , the wrist action that she does is very difficult erm stressful , we do it many times a day . |
| 3 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 4 | But verily , for that lawless coronation that she made , she shall be most firmly enclosed in a dwelling of stone and iron , made like a crown , and at Berwick be hung up in the open air , that she may be given , in life and after death , for a gazing-stock and an everlasting scorn to those who pass by . ’ |
| 5 | That night she was woken by the most terrible screams that she had ever heard . |
| 6 | She kept telling Ivan that she had to leave , and he kept telling her that he was a great lover although his prick was only six inches long . |
| 7 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 8 | She stuffed the postcard under her pillow and then smoothed the covers that she 'd refused to straighten before school . |
| 9 | It was a foolish thing to do , she knew that a fraction of a second too late ; he cannoned into her with such force that she fell heavily to the ground . |
| 10 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 11 | Abruptly , the sensations she 'd felt that night in St Lucia , when they 'd come so close to making love , engulfed her with such force that she felt weak at the knees . |
| 12 | It was a force that she tried to hide away tidily , as her mother would have done , because it was a dark and hideous thing that shook her violently . |
| 13 | He came to vibrant life , grasping her arms with such force that she cried out . |
| 14 | The methods that she uses erm , and I think this needs to be done well before a disaster , unfortunately so often people only react at times like this and I think it 's such a pity that they do n't do it beforehand , but it 's working on basic assertiveness skills , communications skills like giving a language for feelings , erm building up support for each other , plus the creative work — getting things down |
| 15 | It is to facilitate the translation of the dramas of sub-conversation and activity below the surface of consciousness that she abandons the conventions of linear narrative , normal chronology , plot and characterization . |
| 16 | A bedroom that she had known for at least ten of her seventeen years . |
| 17 | One last kiss , then Kate was left alone in the small bedroom that she used when she came home . |
| 18 | Used to let them at me mum leave er my kids that she made of hers , yet she , me mum never treated them all the same |
| 19 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 20 | His reply was so matter-of-fact , so lacking in emotion that she found it hard to believe . |
| 21 | The hoarse foreign words held such a depth of emotion that she pulled back to stare into his eyes . |
| 22 | As well as that , how could she admit to Bella that she had seen the money hidden in the drawer ? |
| 23 | In this sense , the definition of standards and routines can be seen as a defensive process : the housewife is defending herself against the allegation that she does nothing at all . |
| 24 | ‘ And the allegation that she had been disloyal to anyone was very firmly refuted . ’ |
| 25 | The former US ambassador to Iraq , April Glaspie , replying belatedly to the allegation that she had allowed Saddam Hussein to conclude that there would be no US opposition if Iraq invaded Kuwait , gave her own version of her fateful July 25 , 1990 , discussions with the Iraqi President , when she appeared before the Senate foreign relations committee in late March 1991 . |
| 26 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 27 | She had told Anne on Saturday that she had received her last letter before the leave . |
| 28 | She stood staring after his lithe figure , gripped by the same sense of anguish and loss that she 'd felt in the Piazzale Roma . |
| 29 | While this is some ways a mercy , it nonetheless serves to accentuate the loss that she experiences . |
| 30 | My mother would answer inaudibly , but it would be evident from my father 's all-too-audible answering tirade that she had been gently remonstrating . |