Example sentences of "that she [verb] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was because of that meagre income that she became incensed at her tutor , Maurice Greiffenhagen , who had a habit of sitting down at his students ' drawings and paintings and finishing them off . |
| 2 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 3 | Sabine had a confused impression of height and strength , and an anger so powerful that she felt scorched by it . |
| 4 | What was n't sitting well was those sapphire eyes studying her with such disturbing intensity that she felt stripped to her soul ! |
| 5 | Jehana was trying so hard to demonstrate that she did not care for Alexei 's attentions that he was sure that she felt attracted to him . |
| 6 | They were half open , silently fixing her in a look so intense and piercing that she felt caught in it , as if hypnotized . |
| 7 | Earlier this summer Julia said that she felt shattered by the show 's punishing schedule . |
| 8 | It had seemed so important to make a good impression , to show him that she had risen above the way of life in the alleys , but it was a selfish , uncaring side of her he had seen . |
| 9 | It was only as the girl grew older and she realized that her mother was simply mouthing words and had no intention whatsoever of carrying out her threat that she had begun to be able to relax and enjoy what was left of her childhood . |
| 10 | Thérèse knew that she had been sent away from her parents at the age of two months , to be fed by Rose , that she had lived with Rose for sixteen months . |
| 11 | She replied that she had lived in a small group of about 10 people : she indicated the number by holding up both hands with the fingers spread . |
| 12 | It seemed to her now that she had lived in a dream . |
| 13 | She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised . |
| 14 | Elizabeth reported that she had heard in such a place : ‘ Long time , no see , old boy , what 's your poison ? ’ |
| 15 | In Nairobi , Cynthia Osterman , of Care , said that she had heard by satellite telephone that four US vehicles were burned but no-one was injured . |
| 16 | In Nairobi , Cynthia Osterman , of Care , said that she had heard by satellite telephone that four US vehicles were burned but no-one was injured . |
| 17 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 18 | To her great relief , however , Fabia subsequently discovered that she had asked for a quite delicious meal of venison with bacon , mushrooms and tomatoes . |
| 19 | Dr Marshall , who as a vegan eats no animal products , agreed that she had eaten in her room , but said that she did no cooking . |
| 20 | It would hardly cross his mind that she had gone past the point of that to something altogether more serious and far less retrievable . |
| 21 | He would not report her fate to the Police , and he could divert enquiries by saying that she had gone to friends in the country . |
| 22 | as if to lure her husband into a false sense of security , she pretended in the following year that she had gone to America and had hired a secretary , called Daisy Miller , to answer her correspondence in her absence : but she herself was Daisy Miller . |
| 23 | He began to suspect that she had gone to Glasgow . |
| 24 | Many of the protesters , together with much of the black press , attempted to publicise the jogger 's name and to vilify her character , claiming variously that she had never been attacked , that she had been raped by her white boyfriend , or that she had gone to the park in search of sexual adventure . |
| 25 | Would n't Veronica think it suspicious that she had gone to the lengths of calling two days running ? |
| 26 | It turned out that she had gone for a hill walk on her own with an agreed pick up point by him in the car . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been there , ’ she said , but he rode over that , bent on ignoring his unreasonable jealousy that she had gone with anyone else . |
| 28 | She wished even harder that she had gone with him . |
| 29 | She realised that she had imposed on Miss Hatherby 's kindness and she blushed for her lack of consideration . |
| 30 | Ellen 's voice was suddenly a harsh scream , so harsh that we both looked towards her and saw that she was threatening both of us with one of Wavebreaker 's heavy-duty fire extinguishers that she had snatched from its rack at the head of the main companionway . |