Example sentences of "[that] she [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , ’ answered Raffaella and then went on to tell Julia with no self-consciousness at all that she became a prostitute in Rome , where the dollar-rich American soldiers were prepared to pay a small fortune to a good-looking , elegant girl . |
| 2 | He returned her look with a glance so suddenly intent that she felt a flash of absurd panic , and rose hurriedly to busy herself with the teapot . |
| 3 | She would have similarly to hide from his employer the fact that she felt a wreck inside . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've run away , ’ he said , staring at her with such intensity that she felt a rush of alarm . |
| 5 | Obviously , that was not the case but it may be that Viola was so used to people thinking like that about her that she felt a need to assert herself as well . |
| 6 | It was not that she felt a need for approval , but it was disheartening that these people should show so little comprehension of the sacrifice she had made in wedding her life to theirs . |
| 7 | Clare had planned so often the details of her own wedding , so often pictured herself , radiant in a long , white dress with train , leaning on her father 's arm , advancing with a slow , fragile step down the aisle towards Mark , handsome and smiling in morning dress , while the organ pealed and the candles and flowers blazed , and the guests beamed and whispered in the crowded pews — that she felt a surge of pity for the girl who would have nothing to remember but this sordid little ceremony . |
| 8 | The child lay down ; then she watched the big fat woman undress herself , noticing particularly Mat she did not wear corsets like her mama , but that she wore a habit shirt , and one bodice petticoat and two waist petticoats . |
| 9 | LSE graduate Lesley Satchell tells me that she took a teaspoonful of oil to her arthritic grandmother Mrs Wyn Butler . |
| 10 | Unionist leaders organized a demonstration against her visit and the Lord Mayor of the city refused to meet her on the grounds that she represented a state which laid claim in its constitution to jurisdiction over Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | I wonder that she keeps a photograph . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ To Lucinda ’ , because of its date , is an important indication that she saw a need to tone down her protests as she approached a polite readership . |
| 13 | No one knew that she had a mare . |
| 14 | Nothing either of them could say would convince Roman that she had a twin . |
| 15 | It had n't occurred to her that she had a choice . |
| 16 | For , now she had telephoned England , it had been brought home to her that she had a couple of choices to worry about . |
| 17 | She was glad to be back , glad she had survived and felt now that she had a purpose she had not had before . |
| 18 | It has been suggested that she had a secret , ironic intention , but I doubt it : she wished to give souvenirs to a number of people , and that there should be no cause for jealousy between them — though I am told that jealousy arose . |
| 19 | What had startled him was that she had a sister , Sandra Riverton , who had worked for INCUBUS in Suffolk . |
| 20 | The point about her was that she had a trick which worked and , unlike many politicians , She Was Not Found Out . |
| 21 | She felt happier about Kathleen now that she knew that she had a champion in Ella , but she had little time to dwell on the O'Neills . |
| 22 | He hugged her to him and insisted that she had a drink on the house . |
| 23 | But she was more tired than she knew , and soon she began to wish that she had a suitcase to sit on ; but hers was on the rack in that tightly packed carriage , and she could n't go back for it . |
| 24 | As she got to her feet he looked underneath her , remembering the equipment cows had , and saw that she had a semblance of the same thing , although nothing like so dangly as a cow 's , but quite satisfactorily dripping at that moment with what he supposed was milk . |
| 25 | A woman manager at Long Lartin top security prison has been suspended after reports that she had a relationship with an inmate . |
| 26 | At her trial , Jean Campbell pleaded not guilty by signs and gestures interpreted by Robert Kinniburgh , and went on to show that she knew the difference between right and wrong , was indignant at the imputation of having murdered her child , and that she had a notion of what marriage was by signing the ring on her finger and removing it , and going away . |
| 27 | Nor did she worry overmuch that she had a reputation for being harder on women officers than men . |
| 28 | She started to think that she had a vocation for taking heroic decisions , but it was really nothing more sustaining than a rabid kind of recklessness that erupted suddenly and then left her feeling bleak and inept . |
| 29 | She was surprised , because she had thought that she had a vocation not to marry . |
| 30 | I thought I could help her spiritually , perhaps show her that she had a vocation too . |