Example sentences of "she [vb past] that she " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , she admitted that she had felt very miserable for 3 or 4 months . |
| 2 | Disconcerted , she admitted that she 'd only done this once before , that , in all honesty , I could probably do it equally well on my own . |
| 3 | The night before her operation Mrs Fellows was prescribed a sedative to help her relax and sleep because she admitted that she felt very nervous . |
| 4 | Encouraged , she admitted that she had been entrusted with their last £2000 , and had bought a houseboat , in point of fact , the barge Grace . |
| 5 | Reluctantly she admitted that she wanted to see him all the time . |
| 6 | After all the waiting for him he was here so unexpectedly , and she admitted that she simply wanted to look at him . |
| 7 | In spite of her rage with him she admitted that she found him just about perfect to look at . |
| 8 | She admitted that she had been thrilled at the idea of being alone with him , but all he was going to do was be stiffly silent . |
| 9 | But now she admitted that she 'd simply been unaffected by them . |
| 10 | ‘ When I tackled Didi about it she admitted that she 'd taken it upon herself to bribe one of the hotel chambermaids , a girl she knew , to do both . |
| 11 | In 1988 , at a particularly lively , contentious and near-violent writers ' conference in Budapest , Angela and I listened one quiet afternoon to the omnipresent Susan Sontag as she revealed that she had devoured ( her cliche ) the great classics of English literature soon after discarding her diapers . |
| 12 | She revealed that she first learnt of the threatened closure while her daughter was fighting for life . |
| 13 | Certainly Joanne Menzies appeared not to recognize him , although he 'd rather regretted choosing the character of Detective-Sergeant McWhirter of Scotland Yard when she revealed that she 'd been brought up near the Kyles of Bute . |
| 14 | His own queen , whom Surere had revered so deeply , when she requested that she be buried not in the new City of the Horizon , but near her old home , in the Valley of the Dead across the river from the Southern Capital , had been granted her wish , though it had hurt Akhenaten deeply . |
| 15 | This was the first case in Tanzania of its kind : she argued that she was dismissed because of her sex . |
| 16 | When she realised that she was pregnant , her one clear emotion was that he should not know . |
| 17 | She could remember though the time when she realised that she must , for love of them both , never let them know that she was aware of it . |
| 18 | She realised that she still had fifteen minutes before the meeting was due to start and on an impulse she rang Paul . |
| 19 | After a moment she realised that she would have to change ; there was no way she was going out to meet Hermione in her mother 's elderly and considerably over-large tracksuit . |
| 20 | She realised that she had not eaten properly in twenty-four hours . |
| 21 | After about twenty minutes , walking and fishing , she realised that she was hopelessly lost . |
| 22 | It was only when she realised that she had n't used the unarmed combat that was by now second nature to her , but was struggling in a manner that was instinctive , that she stopped . |
| 23 | When Ruth saw Willie she realised that she need not have worried about him . |
| 24 | Yet when she came to think about this further , she realised that she was nowhere near understanding Brian . |
| 25 | She realised that she had imposed on Miss Hatherby 's kindness and she blushed for her lack of consideration . |
| 26 | She realised that she had become increasingly frustrated and dissatisfied with her life with Nicky … maybe even with Surrey … perhaps even with Maison de Levantière . |
| 27 | Yet she realised that she also had a strong need for security . |
| 28 | Sean was the first man who ever made love to her , and Ruth had thought she loved him too , but it was not a happy marriage and when Sean was killed in France , just before the Armistice was signed , she realised that she had been denying her true feelings for years . |
| 29 | She realised that she would have to take the initiative , or she 'd be sitting there forever . |
| 30 | And then to her suppressed rage she realised that she was crying . |