Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [to-vb] [that] she " in BNC.

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1 How could she not have known she was in love with him ? she wondered — it seemed impossible to believe that she had looked at him , touched him , made love with him , and not known until yesterday .
2 Barbara , snowy sheets , stolen weekends … it suddenly seemed important to remember that she was a tireless charity worker , a champion bridge player , an indefatigable rider to hounds .
3 Jean or Jeannie Symonds was still working in Skinners in 1913 , left the trade for a few years but was readmitted in 1927 , so it seems safe to assume that she spent much of her working life in the printing trade and did not marry .
4 It seems fair to assume that she will attract the attention of a goodly number of our countrymen .
5 She was not so far gone in the sinful practice of dissimulation that she felt free to claim that she meant to ask them because she knew Betty would be pleased , and she could think of no other remotely credible reason for doing so .
6 ‘ I 'll go to Oxford , of course , ’ she said , hoping her tone was convincing enough to conceal that she had no idea what to do once she got there .
7 And Violet Hunt , loyally selling copies at half-price in her drawing room , confesses in her memoir I Have This to Say that she was at a loss to explain why the damned were damned , and the blest were blest .
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