Example sentences of "[that] she had [vb pp] [pers pn] " 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 | She had not done this deliberately ; she was not even aware that she had done it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And Lily felt at once , as so often now , that she had done it wrong . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ It looked all right , did it ? ’ she asked Morris again , perhaps forgetting that she had asked him once already . |
| 13 | Once again , she refrained from mentioning that she had asked them to keep the baby in the nursery as his presence in the room was upsetting her . |
| 14 | As she talked Eva revealed it was not just that she was coming back to God , but that she had realised she must give her whole self to him for the ministry . |
| 15 | ‘ He is not a clever man , ’ her friend said and Dorothea recalled that she had said it before , anxiously , determined that Dorothea should understand but , nevertheless , accept . |
| 16 | A restless movement on his part betrayed that she had provoked him once more , but in a different fashion . |
| 17 | She wished suddenly that she had met him under different circumstances : not as Jenny 's boy friend ; not as her fellow beneficiary in Aunt Alicia 's will . |
| 18 | She felt the shudder within him , felt a pride and an elation that she had caused it , then could think of nothing other than the exquisite sensations shooting through her body , radiating to every part of it and suffusing her with an unstoppable arousal . |
| 19 | When Matey had returned on that fateful afternoon , Dr Neil had told her that he had proposed to McAllister , and that she had accepted him . |
| 20 | Because the buyer did not claim to reject the car until September , it was held that she had accepted it and that therefore she was entitled only to damages . |
| 21 | He shot a glance at Ellen , making sure that she had understood him as well as Thessy , then he looked at his watch and shouted for Bellybutton to start up one of the workboats . |
| 22 | She probably believed that she had converted him . |
| 23 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |
| 24 | Angry that she had defied him and yet delighted at her little-girl behaviour , he reluctantly followed , then , holding her very close , walked her back up the stairs as they counted each step in unison . |
| 25 | ‘ May I still have the interview with you which you promised ? ’ she asked straight out — and thought for a few seconds , as he looked sternly at her , that she had blown it , and that he had taken the strongest exception to her reminding him of his promise . |
| 26 | He remembered very clearly that she had made him look a fool . |
| 27 | She was the most efficient secretary he had ever had and it irked him that she had made it clear that , if and when he moved , she would wish to stay at Larksoken . |
| 28 | And that she had made it perfectly clear that , to her , fidelity and trust meant more than just nothing — meant everything , in fact . |
| 29 | ( It was suggested later that she had insisted they go . ) |
| 30 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |