Example sentences of "a [noun sg] that she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 2 | There was also , she vaguely noted , in one corner a piano , and the windows had shutters of a kind that she had never seen in England . |
| 3 | There was a story that she had once been married to a hollow cheeked Indian tour guide called Willy Wither who had taken us up the river and touchingly offered me the use of his very expensive camera ( ‘ A holiday without a camera is a terrible thing . ’ ) , |
| 4 | A bedroom that she had known for at least ten of her seventeen years . |
| 5 | Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood . |
| 6 | She was glancing through a newssheet that she had looked through already a dozen times and that in any case told nothing particularly interesting . |
| 7 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
| 8 | She realised in a panic that she had forgotten the number . |
| 9 | It was n't until they had come to a halt that she had felt able to raise her eyes from the floor and look at the two men standing by the alter rail . |
| 10 | ‘ Then how do you explain this ? ’ he said , reaching for a folder that she had n't noticed lying at the end of the settee . |
| 11 | She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium . |
| 12 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |
| 13 | Pretending for a moment that she had noticed nothing wrong , Julia poured herself a glass of vermouth and then turned to face David . |
| 14 | There , she checked for a pulse , fearing for a moment that she had killed him . |
| 15 | I thought for a moment that she had been re-reading " Das Kapital " in her spare time , but I suspect that it was all a charade . |
| 16 | He thought it was a joke that she had slept in and there was no sign whatsoever of guilt at his desertion of her . |
| 17 | She might have known that all of her efforts would end like this ; it was simply a truth that she had n't been wanting to face . |
| 18 | ‘ Certainly , madam , ’ I said , coming back abruptly to the matter in hand and , realizing with a shock that she had already asked me once , I fetched her a knife fast . |
| 19 | Rose realized with a shock that she had never seen him handle a book before , and watched him curiously . |
| 20 | When Sophie woke on Tuesday morning she remembered with something of a shock that she had promised to go out to dinner with Giles . |
| 21 | Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered . |
| 22 | She said that , ah , because they 've put on minus three thousand pound wha , a loan that she had . |
| 23 | On her way back to the surgery , Sophie glanced at her watch and realised with a start that she had left Joanna on her own for nearly two hours . |
| 24 | Once you get out of car and I thought it was a dog that she had , bu did n't have , she did n't have a dachshund he had a little |
| 25 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 26 | Viola Machin , torn between a desire to protest that she had nothing to hide , and a feeling that she had , said at last , reluctantly : ‘ Well , yes , that 's true : and I 'm grateful to you for that , Hilda . ’ |
| 27 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 28 | My own reaction at the time — a guilty feeling of my own inadequacy as both feeder and fed , mingled with a wish that she had not told me — indicates that this is an important piece of information . |
| 29 | As happened in their life together , Felix was humbled for a flash by a sense that she had caught something he had missed : something wild in the air Stephen had brought with him . |
| 30 | A sense that she had no right to intrude into their lives . |