Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] that she was " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Panna was just twenty days old , the village midwife disclosed that she was neither male nor female , that she was a hijra . |
| 2 | So it was a great disappointment to discover that she was quite unlike all the other home-bred horses , and that she would give nothing in return to those who cared for her and bestowed affection upon her . |
| 3 | Her level of engagement shows that she was involved to a greater extent over a much larger part of the day . |
| 4 | She made a brilliant debut in This Girl 's Army and followed up with two light romances ; the publicity department declared that she was grown up when she charmed Alfred Hitchcock and won an Oscar nomination for Reasonable Doubt , a sophisticated courtroom melodrama . |
| 5 | Jane Pargeter was determined to look relaxed , Dexter thought , even though the number of times she kept bobbing her mouth down to sip her tea showed that she was not . |
| 6 | It took a moment or two for her fuddled mind to realise that she was naked . |
| 7 | Indeed , his position as Town 's theatre critic meant that she was getting some evenings out free as well . |
| 8 | Wilson 's reputation as a talent scout ensured that she was not out in the cold for long . |
| 9 | The firm set of Niall Grant 's mouth suggested that she was treading on dangerous ground . |
| 10 | She then sought a fair rent , which she could only do if she were a tenant , but Mr Street of course argued that she was only a licensee . |
| 11 | When task allocation was a common way of organising care , a nurse did not usually progress from one task to another until the sister judged that she was competent to do so . |
| 12 | When Diana first consulted Penny the princess revealed that she was interested in astrology , but knew very little about it . |
| 13 | Robin-Anne nodded very earnestly as though she truly cared about my opinion , but her next question showed that she was paying no attention to my inanities . |
| 14 | For the songwriter-pianist-producer led the blues queen to believe that she was signed to Columbia Records , when , in fact , she was actually signed to Williams and he was pocketing half of every recording fee . |
| 15 | There were a number of strange facts that were difficult to explain , and the judge decided that she was the murderer . |
| 16 | ‘ No woman would ever want to walk down the aisle thinking that she was the bet in a silly game of golf . ’ |
| 17 | The author realised that she was wrongfully dismissed at a time when the company needed her services . |
| 18 | Joanne had torn a ligament so badly refereeing a basketball match that she was on morphine for a week after hospital surgery , and could n't even walk let alone play golf . |
| 19 | By thus reproducing arguments in favour of unequal pay which had a long pedigree , Amelia McLean 's article showed that she was either unable or unwilling to realize that , apart from anything else , the introduction of Monotype machines within the previous few years had completely redistributed the cards . |
| 20 | The sound indicated that she was coming down the mast . |
| 21 | – Now this remark implied that she was going to mount a substantial assault on the traditional nature of Cabinet government , which is collective discussion — free-ranging before decisions are reached . |
| 22 | Breeze saw that she was quite young — not much older than Susan — and liked her merry face , and the quick , deft way she arranged the vases . |
| 23 | She had gone to school in Scotland and in order to lull suspicion said that she was in Glasgow visiting an old school friend . |
| 24 | Of course I wo n't go climbing hills , ’ Beth assured her with a light peck on the cheek to show that she was not annoyed at the girl 's being so forward . |
| 25 | Anne Diamond explained that she could not be at Torquay because of programme commitments and what she called ‘ another thing ’ , patting her midriff to show that she was heavily pregnant . |
| 26 | She was forced to crouch in the bowels of the machine with her knees up around her ears , her elbows jammed against the interior dispensing machinery and her back wedged so tightly against the shelf supports that she was going to come out with her spine looking like a piece of corrugated duralinium . |
| 27 | Chief Judge Patricia Wald , an appointee of President Jimmy Carter , dissenting , issued a statement after the appeal verdict stating that she was " satisfied that North received a fair trial " . |
| 28 | He also points out the song 's crucial omission , astonishing in a work of the protest movement : Dylan never says that Zantzinger is white and Hattie Carroll black , and forces the listener to assume that she was because of everything we are told about her : her name , that she had ten children , her position as a maid who ‘ did n't even talk to the people at the table ’ and , more tendentiously , because of what was done to her and the mild punishment meted out to her murderer who ‘ at 24 years/Owns a tobacco farm of 600 acres ’ . |
| 29 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |
| 30 | The , the interviewer the other day said that she was somebody stopped her in Sandy Row , at the bottom of Sandy Row , |