Example sentences of "that she [vb past] [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 He was terrified , and his fear began to obsess her , so that she felt her own body begin to knot up with tension again .
2 South-West Durham Coroner Colin Penna recorded a verdict that she took her own life .
3 Eventually Linda gave it up and admitted that Marilyn Duxbody was not present but added , with overtones of hysteria , that she expected her any minute .
4 As the years stumbled by she found that she had nothing much to say to anybody .
5 It was a fair enough question , and when it came to being fair Fabia endorsed that she owed him this particular explanation .
6 She was beset by the realization that she desired nothing more than to go to the Hall as Anne Mowbray 's companion .
7 It was then that she realised her own power and made an instant resolve never to abuse it .
8 She did n't know ; all she knew was that she adored him more than before and she wanted him more desperately , therefore inevitably she was going to be more hurt than the first time .
9 I learned that , like Jane Austen , she was an ASROG ( Abbey School Reading Old Girl ) , though it was not until years later that she sent me these scraps from a diary kept during her schooldays .
10 I BLOODY WELL WILL to show her , is what I thought so it was a shot of adrenalin I needed … not , I know , that she meant it that way .
11 She 'd been ashamed to find that she found it such exhausting work , especially without the broad shoulders of Ross to lean on .
12 He was absently scrutinising her set face , projecting an air of such unshakeable self-confidence that she mourned her own reserves of self-esteem .
13 Gay had begun , characteristically , by wishing Susan and Breeze luck in their new home , and it was not until near the end of the letter that she mentioned her own affairs .
14 ‘ Most people are wrong most of the time , ’ he said , with such firmness that she slid him another look , surprised ; he was strong behind his gentleness and hesitancy , she thought — strong in a way that was n't common .
15 Yet he was her father , and she was aware , in this instant , that she loved him more than she had ever loved anyone on earth except herself ; more than husband , far more than children .
16 And the fact that she wanted nothing more than to entrust herself to fitzAlan 's protection made her nervousness all the more acute .
17 Had he realised that she wanted nothing more to do with him ?
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