Example sentences of "she [vb past] that [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She whispered that Klaus told her she must take the message from me after I 'd read it . |
| 2 | If she admitted that Ryan smoked her parents would probably break them up and she did n't want that . |
| 3 | Our porn challenges the received myths about our love-making , as Gillian Rodgerson pointed out when she argued that lesbians need to produce their own because ‘ then the myth that all lesbian sex is two women lounging around waiting for a man to join them , might finally be exploded . ’ |
| 4 | Alyssia narrowed her eyes , wondering whether this was an unexpected wisecrack from the other woman , but she realised that Nicole had merely taken her literally and was now rummaging in her bag for the tablets . |
| 5 | And almost immediately after that she realised that Julius had moved much closer . |
| 6 | She realised that Urquhart had neither the grace nor sensitivity to apologise and she wondered whether it was due to shyness or boorishness . |
| 7 | Now , in the long-house , she realized that Scathach had been fully aware of the special pain she felt . |
| 8 | On testing foods , she found that wheat brought her stiff joints back , while milk and cheese produced a migraine within a few hours . |
| 9 | She found that Margaret carried everywhere with her a writing pad and a felt-tipped pen . |
| 10 | She found that Belov had laid out her own clothes as she slept ; she 'd lost weight , she noticed as she dressed , and she had n't really had much to lose . |
| 11 | When at last she put the receiver down and went into the kitchen she found that Edward had unpacked the shopping . |
| 12 | In a study of over 1,000 second-time mothers who had one baby by Caesarean section , she found that 37% chose another Caesar . |
| 13 | Mum was pleased as punch when she found that Mary had bought us new clothes , but she was not so pleased when Mary told her she could n't see them until the day of the wedding and took them straight up and locked them in her trunk . |
| 14 | Some of her happiest hours were passed in making these costumes and she found that time flew by — it seemed she had barely started before her mother was calling for her to have her bath and go to bed . |
| 15 | Amy , 42 , took a different tack when she found that Joe had been leading a double life for 18 months , holed up with a ravishing ex-model 15 years her junior while she believed he was ‘ opening up new markets ’ in Middle Europe . |
| 16 | She learnt that Gamal had gone with some friends to an island off the coast of Florida , so she told the person who answered the telephone to get hold of him immediately at any cost and tell him to call his mother on a matter of the greatest urgency . |
| 17 | Like Finn , she believed that Lydia had now relented , mistaking her lack of interest for compliance , which led to further misunderstandings at bedtime when Lydia told Finn that he was to sleep in the tiny room where she kept the oil lamps which was furnished with a camp bed and sleeping-bag . |
| 18 | She believed that girls needed a fair dose of daily and vigorous exercise . |
| 19 | Irina had cooked dinner ; she noticed that Volkov refused wine . |
| 20 | She noticed that Doreen had a quiet smile playing about her thin lips , while the expression on Silas 's face was entirely inscrutable . |
| 21 | It must be explained that Kay Dick had published an article in which she stated that Ivy descended from Bishop Burnet and a Compton heiress from Wiltshire : ‘ the place was sold ’ , apparently in her grandfather 's time , according to this account . |
| 22 | Rachaela felt utter helplessness , as she was meant to feel , and as she guessed that Anna saw . |
| 23 | Significantly , when Esther , Leonard 's sister , introduced Jennifer Warnes to him , she commented that Layton had been ‘ like a father to Leonard . ’ |
| 24 | During the call she discovered that Gamal had gone with some of his friends to an island on the coast of Florida . |
| 25 | She discovered that Ella had a sister at Staines , and on the rare occasions she visited her she went on the railway . |
| 26 | And these questions pursued her , buzzing like mosquitoes , as she walked up Marylebone High Street with her briefcase , as she crossed the Edgware Road , as she joined the conference group for sherry in the Westminster Suite , as she discovered that Edgar had rightly warned her that conversing with Japanese was not easy , as she ate her indifferent luncheon of Maryland chicken , as she listened to Professor Yamamoto speak on Spenser 's reinterpretation of Freud 's interpretation of folie à deux in the classic case of Orphan Eva and her mother , as she delivered her own paper , as she attempted desperately to follow the ensuing discussion , of which she could grasp only one word in ten : all through this crazy jumble of non-language and misunderstanding , of erudition and impenetrable obscurity , of meaningless signs and uninterpretable eye contact , the mosquitoes buzzed and nipped and drew blood . |
| 27 | In the taxi she discovered that Ace had won the Spanish Grand Prix , but only just . |
| 28 | She ordered that Canning receive proper medical attention . |
| 29 | She assured the women she addressed that suffragists did not want them to give up ‘ one jot or tittle of your womanliness , your love for children , your care for the sick , your gentleness , your self-control , your obedience to conscience and duty ’ . |
| 30 | She sensed that Edna had long given up hope of Celia herself having any children . |