Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [that] she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one saw her go — they were too busy hollering at one another to notice that she had disappeared . |
| 2 | Not willing to admit that she had had the same idea , Sophie said cautiously , ‘ Dawn was n't available to help him with the monkey . |
| 3 | Years later , when I met , through Eliot 's sister-in-law , that charming , modest , retiring lady in Brooklyn , I was relieved to find that she had liked what I had written about her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 6 | Its warm radiance drove the shivers from her and she was glad to see that she had n't disturbed Antoine . |
| 7 | She was much too busy darting glances at Alain and then at Jenna and it was not hard to see that she had detected a certain restraint in the atmosphere . |
| 8 | I once heard Dr Starkie lecture , and I 'm glad to report that she had an atrocious French accent ; one of those deliveries full of dame-school confidence and absolutely no ear , swerving between workaday correctness and farcical error , often within the same word . |
| 9 | Even more , it was gratifying to know that she had coped and coped well , Lindsey thought as she began to clear away . |
| 10 | Ann Butler was unwilling to admit that she had dozed away most of the afternoon by the fire . |
| 11 | She went hot all over at the thought , too upset to understand that she had only escaped his hold because he had let her . |
| 12 | ‘ Ladies ’ verse' became a phrase of scorn ; anthologies ceased to include any , readers forgot its existence , and Elizabeth Barrett Browning was able to complain that she had no poetic grandmothers . |
| 13 | They would never be able to say that she had accepted their charity . |
| 14 | DONATION — Pauline was pleased to report that she had written to the National Westminster Bank Sponsorship and Community Affairs Dept. and received a donation of £500 to the Society . |
| 15 | She was shocked to find that she had completely forgotten how to whistle . |
| 16 | McLeish , who had understood from Francesca 's report of her lunch that she and her seniors were indeed going to push for assistance , was amused to hear that she had not succeeded in disguising her intentions from Miss Morgan . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | After a shortened night , Leith got out of bed on Sunday half inclined to believe that she had dreamt the happenings of four o'clock that morning . |
| 19 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 20 | I even found it difficult to believe that she had ever been in cahoots with Mr Broadhurst . |
| 21 | The court considered it was relevant to discover that she had spent the day drinking more than twelve pints of lager and cider along with two bottles of wine , and had sexual intercourse with a soldier during the afternoon . |
| 22 | He was surprised to see that she had lost colour . |
| 23 | Her arm was stinging and as she looked down she was surprised to see that she had also grazed the skin there . |
| 24 | When she woke up two hours later she was aggrieved to discover that she had spent the evening alone and went to her room to listen to music . |
| 25 | Meryl was surprised to find that she had enjoyed the lecture and become thoroughly involved in its subject . |
| 26 | I was surprised to find that she had such a rich and violent internal life and that all this was smouldering and seething away . |
| 27 | Because , while being regressed , the patient is well aware of his or her present-day persona in addition to the previous one , Myra found it very distressing to think that she had been so happy to go along with all Hugh 's demands . |