Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] that she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had pressed the pinafored lady for confirmation that she had understood her last question , but the answer had still come back ‘ one week ’ . |
| 2 | It was n't until she had returned to the lounge after washing-up that she had discovered that the door of the glass display cabinet was swinging open . |
| 3 | She did n't because the moment was not right ; she did not yet know that she could not plead from her position of privilege that she had suffered too — ‘ So you want to annex our wrongs as well , do you ? ’ he might well have answered to her in just bitterness . |
| 4 | There was none of the clashing of iron , or stamping of horse that she had come to associate with both skirmish and battle , only an odd silence , save for the distant and familiar sound of a storm wind , and the voice of a flock of birds , coming closer … |
| 5 | Sometimes , in fact , she had felt she was in danger of neglecting the rest of her pupils for though her voice continued to drone on , snapping out an instruction here , a correction there , she was in reality watching Paula out of the corner of her eye , and experiencing the same excitement of discovery that she had felt on the day when Paula had first walked into her office . |
| 6 | She did n't want involvement with any man ; it was simply a cruel twist of fate that she had got it , and there was no way that she was going to expose her vulnerability to him . |
| 7 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 8 | All night long she had lain awake , worrying about what had happened and wishing with the benefit of hindsight that she had handled it better , but nothing could change what had gone on . |
| 9 | He noticed how bare the room was of the bits and pieces that usually make two lives one life ; but Carla had tried to compensate for that with a beachcomber 's finds : little groups of pebbles and shells on the windowsills , a fan of dried marram in a vase , a gnarled limb of driftwood that she had smoothed and varnished . |
| 10 | Mitch looked stunned and she felt an incredible burst of guilt that she had not told him about this girl 's problem . |
| 11 | Mousseline de soie , to be precise ; a grandeur of definition that she had cherished , aged eighteen . |
| 12 | It went pop , and Signe leaned forward into the candlelight so that all the customers could see her , and sipped at the champagne and narrowed her eyes at me in a gesture of passion that she had seen in some bad film . |
| 13 | True , it was because of Finn that she had got so drunk . |
| 14 | He lifted Tallis in his hand , the small fragment of coal that she had become . |
| 15 | To recapture the adventures of youth that she had missed or lost in years of stress and studying and working . |
| 16 | With all the baggage of sin that she had around her he loved her . |
| 17 | I understand why she was in such dread of Christmas that she had to run away |
| 18 | Hoping against hope that she had not ducked out back to her own flat — not that she 'd blame her ! — Leith skirted the room until her eyes were drawn to a settee that had been pushed back to the side of the room . |
| 19 | Spurs of deep blue light crowned his head , weaving in some restless pattern like speech that she had never learned to comprehend . |
| 20 | ‘ I think that you had better go , ’ Sally-Anne said — and she remembered with pride that she had not given an inch , had shown no emotion as her life had crumbled around her . |
| 21 | Feeling sick with relief that she had not run away with a rich man , Frankie shook his head vigorously in agreement and clung to her arm . |
| 22 | He smiled with relief that she had changed the subject away from Richard Sharpe . |
| 23 | As it was , she went down so badly with flu that she had to be confined to her room for the duration . |
| 24 | And as she pushed open the forest-green doors of Woodline Design she realised with surprise that she had n't given a thought to Max for some considerable time . |
| 25 | She gives you a tour of that painting in cheerful detail , noting with satisfaction that she had managed to achieve in part of the backdrop the right kind of ‘ girny ’ blue . |
| 26 | Having opened with an 83 , Moodie yesterday returned a 78 in which she was cheered by the news from home that she had been awarded a golf scholarship at the University of Hawaii . |
| 27 | Maria Iñes was dumpy and talkative ; Maria Teresa was dark and very like João , though not quite so good looking , and Maria de Graça was taller , plainer , and so intent upon winning herself a place in Heaven that she had little conversation for anyone apart from Padre Jorge , an oily man with plump little hands and a great anxiety to be first to agree with Dom João in everything he said . |
| 28 | She was not fooled for an instant nor so cut off from news that she had not heard that war was in the air again . |
| 29 | It was a look so burning and intense that it had left her fearful and uncertain , and it was only by immersing herself in paperwork that she had been able to recapture some of her habitual calm . |
| 30 | It was only when she was reasonably sober , when , say , she woke up in the morning , head throbbing , tongue parched , that she suspected in retrospect that she had n't been quite so rationally conscious of those selfsame thoughts and actions … |