Example sentences of "[noun sg] that she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He came to vibrant life , grasping her arms with such force that she cried out . |
| 9 | A bedroom that she had known for at least ten of her seventeen years . |
| 10 | One last kiss , then Kate was left alone in the small bedroom that she used when she came home . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His reply was so matter-of-fact , so lacking in emotion that she found it hard to believe . |
| 13 | The hoarse foreign words held such a depth of emotion that she pulled back to stare into his eyes . |
| 14 | ‘ And the allegation that she had been disloyal to anyone was very firmly refuted . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She stood staring after his lithe figure , gripped by the same sense of anguish and loss that she 'd felt in the Piazzale Roma . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was at this point , partly because I was so nervous , that I felt it necessary to build her weight up a little , so I fed her up and overdid it , with the result that she got above her ideal flying weight . |
| 19 | She told the National Enquirer that she had met the prince just months before the Duchess of York was snapped in intimate poses in the South of France with American financial adviser John Bryan , 37 . |
| 20 | Just Piers , entering the room with the same easy stride that she remembered so clearly , dressed casually in a pair of beige trousers and a short-sleeved shirt . |
| 21 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 22 | ‘ I know she came to Oxford and I 'm certain in my own mind that she came to Breakspear College . |
| 23 | A passing labourer directed her , and it was in this anxious , preoccupied state of mind that she made her first appearance in Overclyst . |
| 24 | It crossed Juliet 's mind that she 'd never given him her home number , so how could he know it ? |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it . |
| 26 | It was the day she made up her mind that she met Andrew on the Moor . |
| 27 | ‘ I had this thing in my mind that she had to be in a place where I could get to her and she would be well looked after . ’ |
| 28 | There was no doubt in her mind that she had met a truly extraordinary mathematical brain , and words like child-genius and prodigy went flitting through her head . |
| 29 | It would hardly cross his mind that she had gone past the point of that to something altogether more serious and far less retrievable . |
| 30 | He had jolted open a door in her mind that she had been keeping carefully shut . |