Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dane had told her she had to stop running from the ghosts in her past , and suddenly she realised that in that , at least , he was right . |
| 2 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 3 | So she knew that before being coaxed into motor racing at the belated age of thirty Vitor had qualified as an architect and gained a Harvard business degree . |
| 4 | But already she sensed that in the end she would . |
| 5 | It betrayed nothing personal about its owner — unless he was an emotionless aesthete — and somehow she doubted that to be the case as her psyche responded to the presence of a simmering powerhouse within the lean , muscled frame before her . |
| 6 | Desperately she pleaded but to no avail . |
| 7 | Still she hesitated and at last he said , ‘ Think about it , talk to your parents and to Jennifer and see what the reaction is . |
| 8 | Well she bought that in case that was n't so nice . |
| 9 | If you ask me said Mrs Bird as she invited every one in for a hot mince pies fresh from the oven that 's the nicest start to a Christmas day any one can possibly wish for but then she added and with general agreement with a bear like Paddington about the house life is always full of surprises . |
| 10 | Then she saw that beneath her on the sacred site of Callanish all of the men and the eagles who had fought had disappeared . |
| 11 | Nora endured one day at Thorpe after John had left ; then she decided that to be without him but surrounded by the children , the house , the land — by all they stood to lose and all that would make the loss hurt most — would be intolerable . |
| 12 | And then she moved and with trembling hands smoothed down her skirt . |
| 13 | He should n't be in her thoughts at all , and yet she found that in the short space of time since she had met him he had sunk in , wormed his way into her mind with his disturbing home truths . |
| 14 | At least she thought him middle-aged , but his voice was n't and when she looked at him again she saw that under his haggard features and emaciated frame he was still young , perhaps in his late twenties . |