Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] that her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't know whether to be grateful or alarmed that her time here had softened her . |
| 2 | Bernice could n't take her eyes from the tall woman , and realized that her companions , too , must have been staring . |
| 3 | She looked from him to Michael and realised that her brother was going to go over to the man . |
| 4 | ‘ And realised that her son is a villain , ’ he finished for her . |
| 5 | Then Isabel saw Ellen 's stunned face and realised that her maid , at least , did not know she had spent the night alone . |
| 6 | Paula entered the factory at the age of 17 after finishing secondary school and found that her wage was so low , she was forced to work exceptionally long hours , from 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 pm . |
| 7 | She shook her head a little , and found that her hands were grasping at his coat . |
| 8 | Gillian Murphy ( Mrs Seagrave ) has three young children and found that her career break made it difficult for her to get back into her chosen field of computer programming . |
| 9 | She did not appreciate that this was his normal greeting , and assumed that her reputation had preceded her . |
| 10 | Harry poured her a drink and noticed that her hand was shaking as she accepted a light for her cigarette . |
| 11 | She seemed embarrassed and muttered that her mother had given Terry the photograph , but before she said any more Mrs Redmond began to ask Joe about the war news . |
| 12 | He was silent only because he could n't think what to say to her , He walked with her , looked polite , and noted that her teeth and her temper seemed fair , and she was fine and broad across the hips for child-bearing . |
| 13 | Dorothea Beale , the Principal of the first proprietary girls ' school in England , Cheltenham Ladies College , was firmly committed to a separate curriculum for girls and declared that her aim was to train ‘ girls so that they may best perform that subordinate part in the world to which , I believe , they have been called ’ . |
| 14 | The ‘ Economist ’ , in March ‘ 78 , doubted whether Thatcher could ‘ forge a new majority of the right ’ and reckoned that her ‘ crusade to balance the books and roll back the government ’ was not finding much popular resonance . |
| 15 | But since it seemed that her car was going nowhere without one , ‘ Could the mechanic fit one for me — as a matter of some urgency ? ’ she asked anxiously — and discovered that her rescuer must have already put that same question to him . |
| 16 | She went up to the dormitory , where she found her school friends , anxious and exulting over her delay , grieved and relieved that her sortie had escaped detection ; they gathered round her , perched on the bed , drawing cosily round themselves the striped dusty coarse hooped curtains on their brass poles , and they listened to her story . |
| 17 | Joanna , 25 , whom Brian befriended during training sessions at the centre , later turned up and confessed that her disappearance was a hoax . |
| 18 | Her evidence of damage was limited and established that her reputation was already damaged . ’ |
| 19 | She ruled their lives with a rod of iron , would not let TV be on after 10 p.m. , cancelled the daily papers , and insisted that her daughter continue to share her bedroom , while he slept alone in the spare room . |
| 20 | She had let me see a draft of it , and I fancied that she had been a little timid about the dénouement , which was death in a motor accident , and feared that her own terrible anxiety over her son in the past might have inhibited her . |
| 21 | She had no wish to upset her husband , but she knew how much Stephen 's mother hated her and felt that her mother-in-law was trying to usurp her place in the baby 's affections . |
| 22 | During her years as team manager she had set up a good system for running the team , organising training camps and equipment sponsors and felt that her energy could now be better spent on developing the sport at grass-root level . |
| 23 | ‘ Elaine ! ’ he whispered , and saw that her eyes were brimming with tears . |
| 24 | Mrs Gaskell , who knew much better than Jane Austen how the poor really lived , and saw that her readers knew it too by taking them inside ( at least in towns ) , nevertheless allows her heroine , Margaret , to take pleasure in sketching the exterior of a squatter cottage which is due for demolition in the New Forest . |
| 25 | At the sound of Melissa 's strident tones she pulled up sharply and saw that her second least favourite person was standing squarely in front of her , thin arms folded determinedly across a rather too revealing cleavage . |
| 26 | She could hear Fred 's footsteps on the stairs and knew that her short reverie was over . |
| 27 | After over a year on the specialised endocrine ward here at Coronation Hospital , she was well aware of Deana 's deserved reputation as a malicious gossip , and knew that her heated denial would only pique the older girl 's interest . |
| 28 | On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first , and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I would one day rue I saw the danger , then I walked along the enchanted way And I said let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day … |
| 29 | Miss T. 's father returned to the ward and thought that her condition was worsening and that she appeared disorientated . |
| 30 | Despite this she continued to wheeze daily and thought that her inhalers were of no benefit . |