Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] that she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harriet glanced at Meredith and saw that she was looking at the picture . |
| 2 | Philip shut his eyes and prayed that she would hit Rebel . |
| 3 | She bit her lip and closed her eyes and prayed that she and Steve would somehow resurrect what they had had in Seville as she and Fernando had done . |
| 4 | She closed her eyes and found that she did n't have the energy to open them again . |
| 5 | Then a young woman — dark , quite a looker if you liked that sort of thing but a bit too full of herself for Bennett 's liking — walked into the club and announced that she was the dinner guest of Sir Robin Day , he could only treat her to his coldly disapproving smile and direct her to the ladies ' bar . |
| 6 | With a small detached part of her mind she heard her quick , breathless words and realised that she was chattering . |
| 7 | He anticipated his wife 's distress and knew that she " feared the worst " . |
| 8 | Julia put the desolation that suddenly thrust itself into her mind down to her cold and said that she thought she ought to go bed . |
| 9 | She hated Nora for the double betrayal and swore that she would never forgive her . |
| 10 | Several of his perfumes seemed promising and in the end she took away samples in three small bottles and promised that she would return when she had tried them out . |
| 11 | Robyn let out a deep sigh and realised that she was shaking from head to foot . |
| 12 | At the end of the day , being a gentleman , I offered to carry Ann 's rod back to the car ; but she is a very independent lady and announced that she was perfectly capable of carrying her own fishing-rod . |
| 13 | He exchanged a look with Fenella and saw that she was watching Goibniu quite politely , but that there was a wariness in her eyes . |
| 14 | Dorothea spooned glistening black gobbets of jam on to a silver dish and wished that she could like Alida Thorne a little more . |
| 15 | Surkov rang Masha from the lobby and learnt that she felt better ; we could come to her room . |
| 16 | A widow had the shock of her life when she opened a letter from her local council and discovered that she was in arrears with her rent . |
| 17 | They did have a ‘ look at ’ Ken in Share My Lettuce and concluded that she was right . |
| 18 | She could feel the great flight of the dragon and sensed that she was high in air and travelling fast towards the sunset ; she could feel the great muscles of the dragon 's wings send ripplings down the stomach walls and she gave herself over to death . |
| 19 | She looked me over , said I seemed to be a nice girl and announced that she had just the job for me — taking her goats out for a walk ! |
| 20 | She had never been to Ireland and said that she had never read anything about that country , and yet she was able to supply an abundance of detail about the way of life in that place at an earlier time . |
| 21 | He caught a glimpse of the fair hair and saw that she was talking to someone he recognised as the drummer from the band ; the whole group was there , giving an impromptu concert on tin whistles to the tired hikers sleeping on their rucksacks undaunted by the howl and shriek of the space-invader machines on the other side , a cacophony of mechanical rage that deafened him together with the thin notes of a rebel song . |
| 22 | He asked her to go into the fo'c's'le and as soon as she was inside closed the hatch and said that she could come out when she was ready to apologise . |
| 23 | He discovered that she had an IQ of genius level and announced that she needed firm discipline and intellectual stimulation . |
| 24 | She made a few attempts and found that she could not work , she could not even read . |
| 25 | Jo caught her mother 's eye and saw that she , too , was amused by her father 's instant expertise in their business . |
| 26 | O'Keeffe made it clear that she defined her art strictly as self-expression and indicated that she had first begun her formal training at the Art Institute of Chicago . |
| 27 | The boy had been told unequivocally not to let her off the lead — the riding-school only used the land by grace of its owner and it was a shooting estate — but he hated keeping the dog straining at the lead and knew that she would always come to his call . |
| 28 | Although Mr Cross was perturbed at his strange encounter , he dismissed his consternation and decided that she must have been a village girl who had watched the train and then returned home . |
| 29 | As Claire was breast-feeding , her doctor asked about her diet and found that she was a vegetarian . |
| 30 | She blew her nose and announced that she was going to have a bath . |