Example sentences of "[noun] that she [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes strayed to the card that she still held in her hand and she almost started as she saw , written in plain bold print , a name that had featured with such regularity recently in the headlines of the business section of the local newspaper that she could not fail to recognise it . |
| 2 | When he released her it was with such force that she almost fell to the floor . |
| 3 | ‘ I sometimes feel a great sense of loss and disappointment that she never saw me grow up . |
| 4 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 5 | A few words of friendship , some indication that she now bore no grudge about the job . |
| 6 | It was , however , a totally new experience for her to be accused of a crime that she definitely had not committed . |
| 7 | But washing her hair was such torture that she eventually decided that , whatever the expense , she would pay a weekly visit to a hairdresser . |
| 8 | It surprised Frankie that she rarely managed to sing all the words in the correct order . |
| 9 | Pushing her back into her chair , he gave her back her glass and it was a measure of her distress that she actually reached out and took it . |
| 10 | Yvonne could n't find the fish brooch that she always wore for funerals . |
| 11 | We say that he has done enough damage in bringing about the birth of this child , in giving him a father who does not know he is his father , a mother who is so ice-cold a scientist that she willingly abandons her own child to the researcher in the laboratory , where he will inevitably be regarded in the same light as any other laboratory animal . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose I was feeling a bit guilty about being here , ’ she confessed in a burst of honesty that she instantly wished back . |
| 13 | What she did n't like , and what very seriously worried her , was the way , after long moments of giving her a cold-eyed stare , Naylor Massingham should suddenly look at her with such a degree of pleasantness that she just knew she was n't going to like what was going through his brain . |
| 14 | And instead , all she could hear was a wailing noise that she hardly recognised as her own voice . |
| 15 | It was , however , through this sister that she eventually found out where her daughter was . |
| 16 | There was a seriously dangerous note in his voice now , Cassie thought , so caught up in the play that she hardly realized that she was part of the script and it was she whom Johnny was talking about . |
| 17 | Harriet pushed back the cuff of her ski jacket and glanced at her watch — the clear faced leather-strapped Patek Philippe man 's watch that she always wore in preference to the elegant Cartier her father had given her , unless of course circumstances forced her into an evening gown . |
| 18 | And what pride she had , that transcended her meagre purse and the threadbare pelisse that so little kept out the winter cold that she still wore it inside the house , and had been obliged to come down from her room to seek a little warmth from the dying fire . |
| 19 | Often , now , she thought with wonder that she almost had n't gone … |
| 20 | The young Beatrice Webb was convinced of the importance of family life for women and during the 1880s desperately desired an intimate relationship with the leading politician , Joseph Chamberlain , yet she knew that to marry him would cut her off for ever from the purposeful life of work that she also wanted . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , she had to withdraw from the Symposium , feeling that the effort was too much considering the work that she still required to do on her own Flora . |
| 22 | Caroline realised that she was floundering in such a morass of conflicting emotions that she hardly knew what to resent most . |
| 23 | Here is an extract from the minutes of January 10 : ‘ J Peeke brought to the attention of the committee that she only had one set of keys , not two like stated at the Christmas Party when a councillor asked where the Space Invaders keys were so they could have a few free games . ’ |
| 24 | She told the judge that she now believed that Mr Ahmed , a Pakistani national , used the passport copy and subsequent marriage certificate to remain in this country . |
| 25 | With the awful feeling in her bones that she really had blown it , Fabia got out of the car and stood with him on the pavement . |
| 26 | Marlin was already sullen enough , after her breakfast announcement that she still intended returning to England that day . |
| 27 | That was the point that she again asked him if he were homosexual . |
| 28 | Huge scaly legs , moist , glistening , with some slimy covering that she instinctively knew was giving off the putrid smell . |
| 29 | She had endowed the marriage ( and he could never really like the fellow ) most extravagantly out of her invested money , rather than taking a dip among the jewels that she never wore . |
| 30 | She was pipped by reluctant newcomer Jane Lester of Basildon Savacentre who was so doubtful of her abilities that she virtually had to be carried up to the oche . |