Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] that she " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 2 | That I could get her to do things for me that she would n't do for them . |
| 3 | The Queen became so fond of me that she could not eat without me . |
| 4 | ‘ Celeste was never in love with me , it was the idea of me that she loved . |
| 5 | It was better for both of them that she should . |
| 6 | Their mother seemed to rally as she always did for her children but no matter how she tried to conceal it , it was clear to all of them that she was near the end of her strength . |
| 7 | It 's only because of you that she 's here at all . |
| 8 | His gaze swept lazily over her , making her squirm , then with one swift movement he caught her by the wrist , pulling her so abruptly towards him that she stumbled , caught off balance . |
| 9 | Such was Kylie 's hatred of what she called ‘ pirate ’ pictures of her that she instructed her lawyers to look into ways of suing those who published unofficial photographs of her on the myriad items of memorabilia that filled shops all over the world . |
| 10 | He was so much a part of her that she never needed nor wanted to examine too closely the nature of her feeling for him . |
| 11 | I remember thinking how typical it was of her that she never thought of being wooed . |
| 12 | All these years , she had carried Tyler 's image in her heart , and suddenly there he was , looking at her , startling her , his gaze finding its way into that secret part of her that she had always kept hidden . |
| 13 | And therefore people said of her that she would be lucky , for things had begun to grow just as she appeared , buds started to sprout and birds to practise their spring songs . |
| 14 | ‘ I got out of her that she did know about Parkin 's goings-on with Nicola Sharpe . ’ |
| 15 | There was nothing he could have asked of her that she would not have done for him . |
| 16 | She wanted to be held by him , and as the sad , poignant music began it set up a yearning inside of her that she did n't know how to dispel . |
| 17 | Then he actually made a paper aeroplane so that she had an example in front of her that she can look at to see what she is aiming for . |
| 18 | Her head shot up — it was all of her that she could move in the confined space — and blue eyes locked with sleepy brown ones . |
| 19 | For the next hour Fabia was alternately angry that he could take her to such heights only to call a halt when she responded too readily , and despair that he had made such a nonsense of her that she had n't known where the dickens she was . |
| 20 | Sometime she felt so fond of him that she inclined to a belief in reincarnation , feeling that they must once have been twins : she understood him far too well for her peace of mind , and she knew why her brothers detested him ; apart from the fact that they were racists , they were baffled by his charm and his after-shave . |
| 21 | She had not quite the disdain of him that she put into what she said ; and perhaps he knew it as well as she did . |
| 22 | She was so powerfully aware of him that she could feel the ripples of panic beginning to spread . |
| 23 | He walked head and shoulders above the crowd in every way , she thought , with such a sudden , overwhelming rush of pleasure at the sight of him that she was tongue-tied . |
| 24 | She brought with her in the car anything of mine that she had been able to find in the house ( plus a few things that just reminded her of me ) and they were all dumped in my front hall . |
| 25 | So strange , she sometimes thought , to have all this engineering knowledge in three languages and still be so unable to apply a single word of it that she could scarcely change a plug without helpful diagrams . |
| 26 | Although she was pleased with what she had become , and saw some future in it , there was one aspect of it that she did not like . |
| 27 | She had seen this money before , of course , and still had a little collection of it that she had made as a child , yet it was disconcerting to reflect that Johnny would use it as part of his everyday life . |
| 28 | I have been told by an old Rochdale colleague of hers that she may have married a doctor and that he thinks she was left a cottage in Tonypandy some time in the mid to late 1960s . |
| 29 | On the one occasion when I made a direct appeal to her , in connection with the battle against the closed shop for journalists which I describe later , her response was gratifyingly supportive and it was no fault of hers that she was unable to persuade Lord Hailsham to a course of action that might well have altered journalistic history . |
| 30 | She raged silently all the way back to the cottage , but it was only when the front door closed behind them that she could trust herself enough to speak . |