Example sentences of "[that] she had [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Barney 's as thrilled as I am , ’ Cara replied , revealing that she had phoned him as soon as she 'd read her mail . |
| 2 | Deliberately , he refrained from remarking that she had called him by his Christian name for the first time . |
| 3 | Unaware that she had called him by name for the first time , she halted , still some feet away , gazing at him uncertainly . |
| 4 | Sally was unsure whether to be pleased that Louise was including her or annoyed that she had called her fat . |
| 5 | Except , of course , she could never — ever — tell them what that folly had led to — even if , looking back , she could now honestly say that she had done nothing to provoke it , that she could have expected anger from Havvie at her changing her mind , but never that he would do as he did . |
| 6 | Living up to her reputation , Peters found that she had done her homework thoroughly . |
| 7 | Afterwards , Ruth could not remember that she had done anything unusual on the twenty-third of December . |
| 8 | She had not done this deliberately ; she was not even aware that she had done it . |
| 9 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 10 | And Lily felt at once , as so often now , that she had done it wrong . |
| 11 | She opened her eyes to the darkness , a darkness too often populated before sleep by those familiar , reproachful , childish faces , brown , black and white , bending over her , asking why she had deserted them when they loved her and thought that she had loved them . |
| 12 | She was determined that there would be no reconciliation , and even though she had found that the sound of his voice reminded her vividly and immediately that she had loved him and could do so again she lay smiling with pleasure at the sheer satisfaction of unforgivingness . |
| 13 | She directed her eyes to his , secretly willing him to see the truth that had nothing to do with her partner or Maria Luisa — the truth that she had loved him then and still did . |
| 14 | As Felicity blushed , Julia belatedly remembered David 's disapproval of his chief 's wife and wished that she had kept her questions to herself . |
| 15 | She loved him , so much that it seemed impossible that she had lived her life this long without him , impossible that he could n't know it from her response . |
| 16 | He was amazed at how difficult it was , but gradually it eased as she eased , and he noticed that she had wet her dress . |
| 17 | And in 1987 a lady wrote to the Cambridge Evening News that she had heard what sounded like a cuckoo on February 12 . |
| 18 | It was n't the first time Luke had contacted her since their sight seeing expedition — the flowers that by now she was coming to expect had arrived promptly next day , and with them a handwritten note — but it was the first time that she had heard his voice . |
| 19 | It was the only time in her life that she had noticed her maternal grandmother at a disadvantage , on the defensive . |
| 20 | Pretending for a moment that she had noticed nothing wrong , Julia poured herself a glass of vermouth and then turned to face David . |
| 21 | He saw and understood that she had prepared herself for him . |
| 22 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |
| 23 | Sarah told Maureen that she had received one by the same post . |
| 24 | She had told Anne on Saturday that she had received her last letter before the leave . |
| 25 | He was sure , too , that she had believed him and he knew that the reason for this was that the story he had concocted was so very unlikely that no liar could possibly have put his faith in it . |
| 26 | Could it be that she had retraced her steps , worked out that the house was Littlecote and the perpetrator of this heinous crime was Darrel ? |
| 27 | Beginning to feel that she had imagined his charm , his inbuilt supply of it , Fabia strove hard to keep cool . |
| 28 | Reason had grown wings and flown out of the window , but she knew that she had to recapture it or else give in to him , and live to regret her weakness . |
| 29 | Luca Giordano , Elisa went on , thinking that she had placed her hosts at a disadvantage , was a particular favourite of hers and she could easily see why he was regarded as one of Naples ' finest painters . |
| 30 | ‘ It looked all right , did it ? ’ she asked Morris again , perhaps forgetting that she had asked him once already . |