Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She assured him that his apprehensions about her travelling late at night were quite unfounded : she and her sisters had been allowed to travel about unaccompanied in Southport and London since the age of twelve or thirteen . |
| 2 | She told me that her fiancé had been killed in the war . |
| 3 | She broke down when she told me that her little boy ( now six years old ) had asked every year to be taken to see Father Christmas in a nearby store , and every year she had had to disappoint him . |
| 4 | She told me that her parents had been kind and loving and that , when her two younger brothers were born after the war , she had got on with them quite well apart from the normal childish disagreements . |
| 5 | She told me that her other maid went mad in the spring . |
| 6 | ( It was at this time , I think , that she told me that her own mother , means-tested in the late twenties , had won the sympathy of the relieving officer , who ignored the presence of the saleable piano because she kept a clean house , with a cloth on the table . ) |
| 7 | When I tried to say something , she told me that my turn would come up later , and there was a strict order for speaking . |
| 8 | ‘ She told me that my father is very fond of you . ’ |
| 9 | Well she she told me that your M E type symptoms had got a lot worse and I said that 's we had at That 's what I chatted with her about the other day but |
| 10 | So many and so extraordinary were the stories she told me that our trip around his tiny château lasted for more than an hour and a half , with not a boring moment . |
| 11 | On that occasion , the plaintiff asked her if she thought that Mr. Perot would increase the offer : she told him that her feeling was that he would not , but that certainly there was nothing to prevent the plaintiff from making a counter-offer . |
| 12 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 13 | She told us that her sister had lost her home and all that it contained in the December tragedy , and was still in hospital . |
| 14 | ‘ Thank you , ’ Theda said , aware as she took it that her fingers quivered . |