Example sentences of "the [noun sg] that she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she offered him half of the yam that she had brought with her . |
| 2 | Blanche was happy as she walked out , confident at the end of the afternoon that she had at last found an explanation for Tatyana Nowak 's suicide , and the first direct link between a particular human being and the murder . |
| 3 | But the damage that she had suffered and lack of any measure of a consistently decent upbringing saw Jean turn to drink and drugs . |
| 4 | She gave the excuse that she had suffered ‘ a minor accident ’ . |
| 5 | The only point in eking out the conversation was the hope that she had seen something curious . |
| 6 | ‘ And the allegation that she had been disloyal to anyone was very firmly refuted . ’ |
| 7 | The former US ambassador to Iraq , April Glaspie , replying belatedly to the allegation that she had allowed Saddam Hussein to conclude that there would be no US opposition if Iraq invaded Kuwait , gave her own version of her fateful July 25 , 1990 , discussions with the Iraqi President , when she appeared before the Senate foreign relations committee in late March 1991 . |
| 8 | Mildred spent a lot of time by the pond telling the frog-magician that she had n't forgotten him and that she would get him out if it was the last thing she did . |
| 9 | The fan that she had been waving stopped in mid motion and clicked shut . |
| 10 | But Faye was n't reclined on the couch that she had declared would be her home base for the evening , and with a sudden pang of anxiety Belinda realised that she had n't seen or talked to Faye since about half-past five . |
| 11 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 12 | But her own internal stresses — her anxiety over Between the Acts which she had just finished , and the fear that she had lost the power to write — closed in on her as that unmitigable depression , her companion of old , took final hold . |
| 13 | At the back of the same red Lion Brand Cash book was a note in his mother 's handwriting to the effect that she had given Peter £1 for pocket money . |
| 14 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 15 | One of the speakers , Dr Margaret Collinson , wrote to Roy on 17 September to the effect that she had n't been told the venue , date or time of her paper . |
| 16 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 17 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 18 | Was there another element in the equation that she had n't even considered ? |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't you know what time — ’ she began , but already , somehow , he had moved past her into the dimly lit office and was standing confidently at her drawing-board , casually eyeing the plan that she had been working on . |
| 20 | She stood fuming in the check-out queue in a cloud of righteous indignation , fuelled by the discovery that she had forgotten the washing-up liquid . |
| 21 | She apologized for skulking out of the way so shamelessly , she thanked me for saving the life of their beloved dog who was now prancing around with the children as though nothing had happened , and she finished with the regret that she had n't even asked me my name . |
| 22 | The guttering that she had bodged up a few months previously had come loose again . |
| 23 | It had all gone — the thin veneer of self-confidence , the determination that she had been so proud of acquiring and nurturing since that first audition in Vienna . |
| 24 | This was the end of the battle that she had seen . |
| 25 | All the dancing that she had ever done had been at three school dances , and in sessions for instruction in the art of the polka , the mazurka , and the tarantella , and she did not think they would be much help to her now . |
| 26 | Perhaps one of them would allow her to see more clearly : the ghost in the land , or the child that she had been , or the old dog , or the rooks in the tall trees , or the woman … |
| 27 | She did not go into details : that she found herself so physically revolted by the process that she had begun to retch , nor despite being warned that all new mothers had a fit of the blues after giving birth , she had been crying most of that day . |
| 28 | She remembered the wine that she had bought and decided , almost viciously , to defy his dismissal of her extravagance and open the bottle . |
| 29 | And , although she was rapidly coming to the conclusion that she had made a fool of herself all down the line , she still did n't quite know how . |
| 30 | Dr Bean-Bayog said the charge that she had a sexual relationship with Lozano was ‘ outlandish ’ . |