Example sentences of "that she [vb past] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not done this deliberately ; she was not even aware that she had done it . |
| 2 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 3 | And Lily felt at once , as so often now , that she had done it wrong . |
| 4 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |
| 5 | Reason had grown wings and flown out of the window , but she knew that she had to recapture it or else give in to him , and live to regret her weakness . |
| 6 | ‘ He is not a clever man , ’ her friend said and Dorothea recalled that she had said it before , anxiously , determined that Dorothea should understand but , nevertheless , accept . |
| 7 | She felt the shudder within him , felt a pride and an elation that she had caused it , then could think of nothing other than the exquisite sensations shooting through her body , radiating to every part of it and suffusing her with an unstoppable arousal . |
| 8 | Well she may be better now , I do n't know anything about it except dad heard that she had had it , or was being treated for it . |
| 9 | Because the buyer did not claim to reject the car until September , it was held that she had accepted it and that therefore she was entitled only to damages . |
| 10 | ‘ May I still have the interview with you which you promised ? ’ she asked straight out — and thought for a few seconds , as he looked sternly at her , that she had blown it , and that he had taken the strongest exception to her reminding him of his promise . |
| 11 | She was the most efficient secretary he had ever had and it irked him that she had made it clear that , if and when he moved , she would wish to stay at Larksoken . |
| 12 | And that she had made it perfectly clear that , to her , fidelity and trust meant more than just nothing — meant everything , in fact . |
| 13 | Now that she had to leave it , the cellar was suddenly a friendly place . |
| 14 | Not that she had seen it so at the time . |
| 15 | All night long she had lain awake , worrying about what had happened and wishing with the benefit of hindsight that she had handled it better , but nothing could change what had gone on . |
| 16 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 17 | She did n't want involvement with any man ; it was simply a cruel twist of fate that she had got it , and there was no way that she was going to expose her vulnerability to him . |
| 18 | Oh , why on earth had n't Luke told her that she had got it all wrong ? |
| 19 | Fabia echoed , and hoped as light dawned on her that she had got it right , ‘ You 're saying that Mr Gajdusek is going to Prague ? ’ |
| 20 | She just replied that she had got it from the cupboard . ’ |
| 21 | The offender had a dispute with the victim as a result of the sale by her of his car : the offender claimed that she had sold it for less than it was worth , and had not paid over to him his proper share in the proceeds of the sale . |
| 22 | They had all been staunch Congregationalists , and Mary occasionally felt sad that she had left it all behind in childhood . |
| 23 | Jane suspected that she had brought it on herself . |
| 24 | Now and again there was a light in his eyes , a far-off look , that was so appealing to her senses that she had to break it to ease her own pain . |
| 25 | But she pretended to herself that she had not seen it , or that she had misinterpreted it . |
| 26 | She occasionally did style her hair that way and , since she had never so much as dreamt of meeting Ven when she 'd purchased her black dress , no one could suggest that she had bought it with him in mind . |
| 27 | The staff nurse said that she had thought it strange that this statement should have been volunteered ‘ out of the blue ’ moments after her mother had arrived . |
| 28 | Said I can guarantee that you 'll have it in a week or so said that she got to have it |
| 29 | Charity glanced at the clock as she poured and announced that she 'd missed it , Peregrine asking if it mattered a hoot anyway , the wireless these day being so hopelessly uninformative , with nothing more important to impart than news of patrol activity on the Maginot Line . |
| 30 | But then she felt the sudden tension of the others , and knew that she 'd pushed it too far . |