Example sentences of "to [pron] that she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That nice lady sat there explaining to me that she had n't long to live . |
| 2 | But she pretended to herself that she had not seen it , or that she had misinterpreted it . |
| 3 | She admitted to herself that she had been partly to blame . |
| 4 | Kate remembered all that , and then she said to herself that she had been meant to remember it . |
| 5 | If she found it stretching credulity that a meeting between them was n't inevitable she 'd always fiercely denied to herself that she had any interest in seeing him again , so why should she be feeling so shivery and hot , almost as if she had a fever ? |
| 6 | She was trying hard to deny to herself that she had any feelings for him . |
| 7 | And yet , in her case , it did not appear to him that she had been struck down by any kind of ordinary post-natal depression , as Adams 's next words seemed to confirm . |
| 8 | It occurred to him that she had always bathed in private — the door locked against him . |
| 9 | If it was being pointed out to her that she had been born to a life of political responsibility and not simply pleasure by one member of the powerful and able house of Guise in France , the message was being reinforced from Scotland by another : her mother , Mary of Guise . |
| 10 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 11 | And after his death it seemed to her that she had walked in darkness like an automaton through a deep and narrow canyon of grief in which all her energies , all her physical strength , had been husbanded to get through each day . |
| 12 | She had n't really believed him , but so much of her new life had still to make sense to her that she had not challenged his statement . |
| 13 | It seemed to her that she had never seen so many people as there were on that platform , waiting for the Rome express to arrive . |
| 14 | It occurred to her that she had n't made the salad . |
| 15 | It was then that her stomach began to yaw , for it occurred to her that she had no solid evidence at all with which to tackle Taczek . |
| 16 | Her therapist had , naturally , put it to her that she had married her first husband just because he resembled her father , but Scarlet had rejected the suggestion quite emphatically : he had been a quiet , timorous boy until he discovered the excitement of chasing women , and he had not been artistic at all . |
| 17 | It seemed to her that she had had an insight of vivid and terrible power and that something should now change . |
| 18 | We looked at him in disgust and just stood there popping our bubble-gum while he explained to her that she had betrayed her tribe and would have to be tied to the totem-pole . |
| 19 | But it occurred to her that she had no right to make the decision for William . |
| 20 | He reminded her of her concern when she had heard her father had gone out to lunch the day he died , and he put it to her that she had guessed whom he had met . |
| 21 | It seemed to her that she had never been taken seriously before . |
| 22 | A day did n't pass now during which it failed to occur to her that she had borne two congenital liars . |
| 23 | It had n't occurred to her that she had a choice . |
| 24 | For , now she had telephoned England , it had been brought home to her that she had a couple of choices to worry about . |
| 25 | She would take lunch at Gravetye Manor near East Grinstead ( a 3 out of 5 in the Good Food Guide ) where Peter Herbert , its owner , would see to it that she had two poached eggs on Bovril toast and a good , old-fashioned pudding . |
| 26 | His idea , she realised , was that if he saw to it that she had enough work to keep her occupied both at work and at home , there would be little time left over , if she wanted to keep on top of her job , for any social life with Travis . |
| 27 | You would then have the right to organise her work and most certainly you would see to it that she had little or no large-animal work . |
| 28 | She explained to us that she had spent her childhood in a village near Irkutsk . |