Example sentences of "that she [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time . |
| 2 | He did n't love her , of course , not that she expected him to , but he had n't been backward in the lovemaking department , had he ? |
| 3 | In the case of Letitia , who had married an Irish baronet , Sir Thomas Wyse , her refusal to accept the Emperor 's decision that she confine herself to being Lady Wyse , dropping all imperial pretensions by calling herself Bonaparte Wyse , led to her being expelled from France . |
| 4 | He knew that she thought him to be a stiff and unimaginative person . |
| 5 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 6 | Now that the lights are on I do n't suspect that she drove him to suicide . |
| 7 | ‘ Querida , ’ he had murmured in her ear , and Ruth had waited breathlessly for the words she hoped to hear — that she meant something to him , that he needed her , that he wanted to love her . |
| 8 | He was amused to observe that she forced herself to be a blank when she picked up the bowl of pus and blood . |
| 9 | Instead she stood with her eyes closed , lest they betrayed the fact that she found him to be disturbing to her . |
| 10 | But there ( at H.S. 's ) the food is so beautiful that she applies herself to it . |
| 11 | And it is not that she knows me to be bad or weak , or you either , but her conventional mind could not grasp that a thing so often impure , can be made absolutely and perfectly pure . |
| 12 | It was only the other day that she showed them to me . |
| 13 | But whatever the case , and despite the fact that she bores me to stupefaction , I ca n't be unkind to her . ’ |
| 14 | But his insistence that she leave everything to him had only served to strengthen her determination to be independent . |
| 15 | It was n't that she wanted him to be here with her . |
| 16 | She could not be certain that she wanted it to be true . |
| 17 | Mrs Barrie-Brown left Fresden to the Roman Research Trust , specifying in the codicil to her will that she wanted it to be turned into an educational centre . |