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

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1 Dane had told her she had to stop running from the ghosts in her past , and suddenly she realised that in that , at least , he was right .
2 She knew that in such an obscene position nothing was concealed from view .
3 She knew they had different fathers and she knew that in each case there was only a certain number of possibilities , but beyond that all was obscure .
4 She could not guess why or how , but she knew that in some way he was out to drive a wedge between herself and John .
5 She said that in any case , ‘ she was not given to crying ’ .
6 Increasingly , she wondered if in some unconscious way she had not simulated naivety since the first weeks of her marriage , if she had not — through her uncontrollable selflessness — permitted a skin to grow instead of probing beneath it .
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