Example sentences of "that she [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | So furious was she , in fact , that she felt it wiser not to stay in the same room with him . |
| 2 | Not that she read it ; it was just easier to bury her face in its glossy pages than to have to endure Nicolo 's stony-faced silence . |
| 3 | Franca had her pride , and part of making her situation endurable must be the fiction that she endured it , if not cheerfully , at least stoically . |
| 4 | It was when she turned away from the window that she saw it . |
| 5 | ‘ Not that she deserved it , the naughty girl . ’ |
| 6 | Those letters would be bound to point out to Gina how badly she 'd treated him , telling her to reform and to save her marriage if they were religious , or else saying that she deserved it if he got someone else . |
| 7 | He banged his cup down on its saucer , so hard that she expected it to shatter . |
| 8 | If you do give your heroine this skill you will have to some extent to prove to your readers that she had it . |
| 9 | She 'd been longing for peace and quiet so that she could get on with her carving , and , now that she had it , was standing here like a loon ! |
| 10 | She recognized then that she desired it so — that she would , if she could , make it so . |
| 11 | That she achieved it just when the company was set for major expansion , was an accident of timing that Bernard was determined to exploit to the full . |
| 12 | ‘ She had a very detailed knowledge of Enya 's music , and it was obvious that she plays it a lot . ’ |
| 13 | The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there , and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek . |
| 14 | Arabel was once quoted as being terrified by a performance of Tchaikovsky 's Pathétique Symphony in Berlin so intense that she thought it would kill you . |
| 15 | Bessie Parkes more prudently replied that she thought it was " undeniable " that it would bring lower wages but " it was only fair to let women have a fair share in the competition " . |
| 16 | As she pulled the dress over my head she said that she thought it would still fit her , that she could see the hole at the neckline where my grandmother had pinned a pearl brooch as something old , that the classic line never dated . |
| 17 | She relayed several more messages , conveying by her voice that she thought it was time he appeared in his office . |
| 18 | She did n't attach any importance to it at the time and it was only when she heard we were interested in anyone who had seen Garland between Saturday and Wednesday that she thought it worth mentioning . ’ |
| 19 | I said , she 's alright , but it was n't the ordeal that she thought it was going to be . |
| 20 | But then you see , she said that she thought it was too many so she put it |
| 21 | She told us that she made some toast , but not that she ate it . |
| 22 | Thrift apologizes , whingeing , for the poisoned sausage , reminding Alix that she ate it twenty years ago , when she had no money and needed the sausage . |
| 23 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 24 | ‘ I said that she believed it , ’ she persisted furiously . |
| 25 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 26 | Wilson knew she was being patronised if not mocked outright , but no trace of expression crossed her face and it gave her satisfaction that she knew it did not . |
| 27 | It was not that she was parsimonious or disapproving of alcohol , simply that she knew it had adverse side-effects on Liza and , not being much of a drinker herself , she only kept a small supply in the house . |
| 28 | The strange thing was that she knew it was Ernest 's bell , the bell she had tactfully told him would be unsuitable for the kind of school he had in mind . |
| 29 | DAALNY HAD discarded at once her anger and her pleading as soon as the choice was made , and made in such a fashion that she knew it could not be changed . |
| 30 | She tried to smile , attempting to indicate that she knew it was n't his fault , that he had n't known what he was doing . |