Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [conj] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily went pink , reflecting that if she 'd had charge of this youth in his formative years , things might have been different . |
| 2 | Which explanation , she was sure , had deceived neither Mama nor Papa , for both of them had written saying that if she needed them they would come at once after all . |
| 3 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 4 | ‘ Yesterday Margrida was saying that when she saw us together at the lunch she felt we shared an affinity , ’ Ashley recalled . |
| 5 | There were reports that senior ministers were insisting that if she failed to secure outright victory , she should consult them before deciding to carry on . |
| 6 | To Mary , reading that if she did not do so , ‘ this pre-eminence wherein ye are placed shall be your dejection to torment and pain everlasting ’ , it looked more like the kind of bullying to which , on his own account , he would later subject her daughter . |
| 7 | She gulped hard , struggling to suppress the impulse to laugh , knowing that if she gave in to it she would not be able to stop . |
| 8 | She simply clutched her head and closed her eyes , trying to stop the room spinning in front of her — knowing that if she moved she would be violently sick . |
| 9 | Immediately , I pretended to be asleep , knowing that if she uttered a sound I would have to smother her with my jacket . |
| 10 | She swallowed , struggling against the overwhelming desire to allow his hands to continue , but knowing that if she did … if she did … |
| 11 | Ellen was amused by my naïvety , claiming that if she dug deep enough she would probably discover that I still believed in Santa Claus . |
| 12 | She found herself thinking that when she had forced herself to read how and when Oreste had died she would take her sleeping baby and drown both him and herself forthwith . |
| 13 | I gazed at her , thinking that if she had appeared gentler I might have ventured to say something to her on Victor 's behalf . |
| 14 | Swathed in a thick towel , she emerged several minutes later from the bathroom , thinking that if she donned jeans and a pullover against the cooling night she could slip down into the garden and breathe some fresh air by the river . |