Example sentences of "that she [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew . |
| 2 | And why did the impact of his presence provoke such an undeniable response in her when , earlier , she had felt that she had everything under control ? |
| 3 | Nicklaus , sensing that she had something on her mind , offered an encouraging , ‘ Do n't be afraid to speak up ! ’ |
| 4 | Not for sustenance , but so that she had something on which to focus her attention while she thought about her response to him . |
| 5 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 6 | And she once again had the strong , peculiar feeling that was coming over her more and more often : the feeling that she had nothing in common with those two-legged creatures with a head on their shoulders and a mouth in their face . |
| 7 | ( Not that she had anything against Greenpeace . |
| 8 | It was n't that she had anything against him personally ; he was a charming and clever man , dedicated to his school , an entrepreneur who was using the fruits of his success to fulfil a lifetime 's dream — and good luck to him , she thought . |
| 9 | Not that she had anything against him . |
| 10 | Not that she had anything against the vicar personally , though it had been hard to forgive his refusal of her request for an ‘ Animals ’ Sunday' to which people might bring their pets to be blessed . |
| 11 | Tallis was idly aware that she had none of these organs left . |
| 12 | Iraq would be much more justified to say that she spent lots of money on military equipment so that she could invade other countries like Iran to gain more land . |
| 13 | After a while Lily began to talk , and I realized that she understood nothing of what I had said about the war . |
| 14 | Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale . |
| 15 | I approached Inez , then Mrs Matthew Glynn , and she told me that she knew nothing of them . |
| 16 | Sure enough , Marc quirked his brow and asked , ‘ You intend to stick to this story that she knew nothing of your financial prospects ? ’ |
| 17 | She denied that she knew anything about the power of attorney . |
| 18 | Not that she knew anything about washing . |
| 19 | In this sense , the definition of standards and routines can be seen as a defensive process : the housewife is defending herself against the allegation that she does nothing at all . |
| 20 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Expertly his hands began their slow , feverish exploration of her bare skin , tormenting as they sought to inflame her further and further so that she forgot everything but the pleasure he could bring her . |
| 23 | All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily . |
| 24 | I do n't think that she wants anything for it |
| 25 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 26 | But his insistence that she leave everything to him had only served to strengthen her determination to be independent . |
| 27 | The severity of her head injuries — when found she had lost 75 per cent of her blood and remained unconscious for almost six weeks — meant that she remembered nothing of the attack . |
| 28 | She explained that she wanted someone outside her family to know about them in case anything should happen to her before she would be able to raise the issue with someone with influence in Northern Ireland . |