Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] that she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she has now been booted out of the Miss Italy contest after admitting that she underwent a sex-change operation last year . |
| 2 | She moved back a step , after discovering that she 'd unknowingly moved closer to him than was socially acceptable . |
| 3 | She had been studying for her A levels however when , after discovering that she had smuggled a pining and off-his-food spaniel up to her bedroom to sleep one night , her father had put some of her own recent doubts into words . |
| 4 | The photograph would , Rose believed , be a tactful way of hinting that she did n't intend being around so much . |
| 5 | This was no credit to her own piety — but what was the use of pretending that she had any piety left ? |
| 6 | It was during those months of waiting that she felt in her heart that her husband was once again seeing Camilla . |
| 7 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 8 | That was the part of shoemaking that she loved . |
| 9 | Her mother had been a famous courtesan , doted on by all Cairo but in particular by Nuri , who , though a mature man , had taken the reckless step of proposing that she become his wife and a member of his harem . |
| 10 | The palaces of meaning that she built with Friend in the endless night inside her — what were they for ? |
| 11 | It was all there , the passion and the glory and inflamed rush of feeling that she knew she would always have for him . |
| 12 | Every motion sent her senses reeling , deeper and deeper into the furnace they had entered together , until at last , as she soared to a height of such intensity of feeling that she thought she must burst , something exploded in her brain , and she was awash with the dizzying sensation of all-consuming love . |
| 13 | He made love to her slowly and with exquisite care , wringing from her such an intensity of feeling that she thought paradise could hold no more . |
| 14 | She was carrying a bag of shopping that she kept moving from one hand to the other . |
| 15 | To my utter surprise , Arune went home after one evenings viewing and produced the V-neck sweater with patterning that she had seen on the Video ! |
| 16 | Thus I deceived her into thinking that she had scared me , and that I would take the necessary steps to ward off fatality . |
| 17 | Just in time she stopped herself from confiding that she 'd almost forgotten how to dance . |
| 18 | Deliberately , he refrained from remarking that she had called him by his Christian name for the first time . |
| 19 | I think I 'm right in saying that she drew a very short straw and is the first reading in the Lords of the bill to privatise the railways . |
| 20 | But why should it be that Peggy gets a lift from knowing that she has ‘ beaten ’ Boris ? |
| 21 | She persevered for fifty pages before admitting that she had n't taken in a word . |
| 22 | Once again , she refrained from mentioning that she had asked them to keep the baby in the nursery as his presence in the room was upsetting her . |
| 23 | Now she paused so long before answering that she forgot what she was going to say . |
| 24 | Thank goodness for Iris , thought Melissa as she plodded wearily up to bed , for insisting that she cover herself by reporting Lou 's visit . |
| 25 | She was sad in advance , and yet at the same time all the happier , doubly happy , for knowing that she recognized her happiness , that it was not slipping by her unheeded , for knowing that she was creating for herself a past . |
| 26 | Broadcast on November 23rd , 1982 , the Play for Today , ‘ John David ’ was meticulously balanced in its depiction of the true life dilemma facing the author of the play , Paula Milne , on discovering that she had given birth to a child with Down 's Syndrome . |
| 27 | But Georgie then pulled a master-stroke by revealing that she had a talent for automatic writing . |
| 28 | He would not report her fate to the Police , and he could divert enquiries by saying that she had gone to friends in the country . |
| 29 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 30 | Then she took me to the centre by saying that she had asked my husband and had given permission . |