Example sentences of "[noun] [that] she " in BNC.

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1 Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret .
2 Er as you can see , the wrist action that she does is very difficult erm stressful , we do it many times a day .
3 Of the celebrated Miss Flora , Johnson wrote to Mrs Thrale that she ‘ dresses her head very high , and has manners so ladylike , I wish her headdress was lower ’ .
4 I glanced at Lili thinking that she must know and would somehow reveal what was disturbing him .
5 But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder .
6 And it were n't hurting him at all but it was making her feel sick thinking that she was hurting him like .
7 I 've thumped it into your ears that she 's mine and she 'll remain mine .
8 But verily , for that lawless coronation that she made , she shall be most firmly enclosed in a dwelling of stone and iron , made like a crown , and at Berwick be hung up in the open air , that she may be given , in life and after death , for a gazing-stock and an everlasting scorn to those who pass by . ’
9 But one look at the lacklustre picture presented by the normally spirited Harriet convinced Meredith that she was not even aware the protesters were there , let alone that she had approached so close .
10 It would have been just like her to take a method like this to exact a petty revenge for their disagreements , landing Folly with a pile of unwanted stock that she could n't refuse without souring relations with her supplier .
11 One of the Great Danes was simultaneously clambering into my lap , trying to get all four legs fitted into the available footage , under the delusion that she was some other size .
12 Her eyes strayed to the card that she still held in her hand and she almost started as she saw , written in plain bold print , a name that had featured with such regularity recently in the headlines of the business section of the local newspaper that she could not fail to recognise it .
13 That night she was woken by the most terrible screams that she had ever heard .
14 It was a continuation of her misguided perception that she was a world power and had to protect her Commonwealth and maintain an independent presence in the world .
15 She kept telling Ivan that she had to leave , and he kept telling her that he was a great lover although his prick was only six inches long .
16 The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance .
17 She stuffed the postcard under her pillow and then smoothed the covers that she 'd refused to straighten before school .
18 The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be .
19 It was a force that she tried to hide away tidily , as her mother would have done , because it was a dark and hideous thing that shook her violently .
20 When he released her it was with such force that she almost fell to the floor .
21 All the while , Piers hovered in the background , not saying a word , like some dark , dangerous force that she could turn her back on but could n't quite manage to ignore .
22 He came to vibrant life , grasping her arms with such force that she cried out .
23 It was a foolish thing to do , she knew that a fraction of a second too late ; he cannoned into her with such force that she fell heavily to the ground .
24 Abruptly , the sensations she 'd felt that night in St Lucia , when they 'd come so close to making love , engulfed her with such force that she felt weak at the knees .
25 The methods that she uses erm , and I think this needs to be done well before a disaster , unfortunately so often people only react at times like this and I think it 's such a pity that they do n't do it beforehand , but it 's working on basic assertiveness skills , communications skills like giving a language for feelings , erm building up support for each other , plus the creative work — getting things down
26 It is to facilitate the translation of the dramas of sub-conversation and activity below the surface of consciousness that she abandons the conventions of linear narrative , normal chronology , plot and characterization .
27 He looked vaguely at her , and quickly and intently at his watch ; but at least he had returned to the consciousness that she was present .
28 A bedroom that she had known for at least ten of her seventeen years .
29 Maybe , I thought , Ash would be so turned on by the sounds of frantic coupling emanating from Gav and Aunt Janice in the bedroom that she 'd tear my clothes off .
30 One last kiss , then Kate was left alone in the small bedroom that she used when she came home .
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