Example sentences of "[noun] [be] that she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blanche tiptoed over and remembered the face from the photograph of Tatyana 's that she had borrowed . |
| 2 | But the irony was that she had lost Luke already . |
| 3 | The first discovery she had made on return was that she had forgotten to take the cheesecake out of the freezer . |
| 4 | The upshot was that she had a rocky route through the rest of childhood and adolescence while I slipstreamed smoothly behind . |
| 5 | She felt unrested , her eyes heavy as she stared into the fire for the truth was that she had slept very little and , when she did drift off , dreams of being in Craig 's arms tormented her . |
| 6 | Topaz 's only sorrow was that she had n't seen the marquis again . |
| 7 | Irene had three much older spinster sisters who adored her , and her one consolation when she was discharged from the Waaf was that she had somewhere to go and three loving sisters to look after her . |
| 8 | Her evidence was that she had not known what she was signing and that , trusting her daughter , Claire , as she did , she would have signed anything her daughter had put before her . |
| 9 | She had been like clay in the hands of a master craftsman , and the most unpalatable knowledge was that she had n't had the strength to resist that breathtaking attraction . |
| 10 | Wellington 's riposte was that she had never been to South Africa , while he had and was therefore in a position to judge properly . |
| 11 | Mrs Laughton said that one of the reasons for Mrs Kemp 's suspension was that she had objected to the Social Work Department ignoring the decisions of the Children 's panel . |
| 12 | Her complaint was that she had the right to return to the job she had left : if this was not possible because of redundancy , she had a right under s 45(3) of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 to be offered alternative employment if there was a suitable available vacancy . |
| 13 | My one sadness was that she had died too early to witness my successes . |
| 14 | The secret was that she had slipped one of her arms out of her jumper . |
| 15 | Carole 's first , irrational thought was that she had entered the wrong room . |
| 16 | ( c ) Her own view as expressed to the ante-natal clinic was that she had no religion . |
| 17 | We knew the weather conditions were calm enough inshore but fresher on the other side of the Channel so the indications were that she had probably crossed from France overnight . |
| 18 | ‘ My guess is that she had n't come to terms with the situation herself , ’ she said . |
| 19 | The only certainty was that she had a few seconds to act . |
| 20 | And one thing he did know about the real Sandra was that she had a very low tolerance for boredom , and that she got bored very easily . |
| 21 | She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised . |
| 22 | It was known at Cadogan 's that she had once fallen from a horse while out hunting and had broken her collarbone , but continued to follow the hounds for the rest of the day until she collapsed as they ran the fox to earth . |
| 23 | Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent . |
| 24 | Their other sister , Jane , had married Robert Fellowes , a member of the Queen 's permanent staff , the year before ; and , given the rest of the Spencer family 's connections with the Royal family , the surprise was that she had never been invited before . |
| 25 | The problem was that she had only one bedroom . |
| 26 | The problem was that she had completely blocked the details of the incident from her mind . |
| 27 | Laura 's problem was that she had not enough to do — no children , though she had n't said anything about this recently — and his heart smote him because he had undertaken to make her happy , and had n't . |
| 28 | I have always felt that the great truth of the words uttered by my right hon. Friend the former Prime Minister was that she had pierced the bubble of the omniscience of the social worker — the concept that every problem in society can be resolved by the intervention of a bureaucrat — and had identified the fact that the real core of social development is an individual 's self-reliance and reliance upon the family . |
| 29 | Her defence was that she had been influenced to sign by duress on the part of her husband . |
| 30 | The man 's story was that she had told him she did not feel at all well , and he had told her to lie down on the sofa in the living room . |