Example sentences of "that she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was when the novelty had worn off , when the days grew short , when earlier and earlier the curtains were drawn against the dark silence outside , that she became restless . |
| 2 | All except one , who had worked herself up into such a frenzy of excitement , that she became quite terrified and galloped straight into a fence — which fortunately was made of pine rails that collapsed harmlessly under the assault . |
| 3 | When that happened , however , there would at least be the compensation that she became the first of them to have her power formally acknowledged with the title of regent . |
| 4 | A one-time Italian band singer , Donald Forcillo-Rose , came out of the woodwork in October 1980 to claim that he and June were lovers when she was just sixteen and he was twenty-six , and that she became pregnant . |
| 5 | She needed a little experience here in the provinces first , of course , just enough to give her finesse and confidence , not too much so that she became jaded , and then … |
| 6 | I suppose she was so grateful that she became one of his flock . |
| 7 | After all , it had n't really been her fault that she became mixed up in Jack 's business affairs . |
| 8 | So vivid was her imagination that she became adept at having conversations with him in which he was always making her laugh , always being to her the sort of person she longed to have as a life companion . |
| 9 | Slowly Sara began to see why it was that her mother was so proud of her nationality , for there was something about these simple Portuguese mariners that inspired confidence and trust , so that she became increasingly sure that her decision to leave home and marry João had been well judged . |
| 10 | ‘ No , ’ answered Raffaella and then went on to tell Julia with no self-consciousness at all that she became a prostitute in Rome , where the dollar-rich American soldiers were prepared to pay a small fortune to a good-looking , elegant girl . |
| 11 | It was there in the summer of 1980 that she became a serious candidate to be the Prince 's bride . |
| 12 | Twice she made the kind of excuse that people made at cocktail parties when they wanted to extricate themselves from a conversation and move on to talk with another guest , but five minutes later he was back at her side again , bending closer and closer towards her so that she became unpleasantly aware of the stale , alcoholic aura of his breath . |
| 13 | He took such a long time to answer that she became convinced that he had n't . |
| 14 | Except that she became with child , and Robert — her husband , you must know , who was a brute with a terrible temper ! — refused to acknowledge it as his own . |
| 15 | Another woman returning from feira ( market ) tells you that she became dizzy , confused and ‘ nervous ’ at the price of meat . |
| 16 | It was just that she became — tiresome , really , she was so dinging . |
| 17 | It was because of that meagre income that she became incensed at her tutor , Maurice Greiffenhagen , who had a habit of sitting down at his students ' drawings and paintings and finishing them off . |
| 18 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 19 | Sheldon had become much attached to her during his time at the Lock Hospital and it is said that she asked him to embalm her body after her death , which he did . |
| 20 | The parents would never give Joanne anything ( from a list of non-essentials ) that she asked for . |
| 21 | It was only after they had returned to the living room that she asked the question as she poured tea . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was unfortunate that she asked . |
| 23 | By now , he was ready to do anything that she asked . |
| 24 | Jean so enjoyed the challenge of her new job that she asked her husband , Peter , then a watch salesman , to help her move the heavy rolls of fabric , put up shelves and pictures and generally bring some order to the store . |
| 25 | She did nothing much about it — Eismark was still just somebody in shipping , not a politician — and it was only when he came onto the Secretariat that she asked for money to do some more work about it . ’ |
| 26 | Although Great Britain and Ireland was being hammered on this occasion Jane felt so tight and tense at lunchtime on the second day that she asked if she could stand down . |
| 27 | She stretched her legs under the table , feeling the same satisfaction that she felt when she woke that morning . |
| 28 | Phoebe loathed housekeeping so profoundly that she felt guilty about it and always did it with a disciplined and joyless rigour , expecting everyone else to do so too . |
| 29 | One more guilty secret that Maggie felt obliged to keep from everyone was the deep fear and disgust that she felt at the thought of sexuality . |
| 30 | The tension was such that she felt sudden relief as they went out of the small room into the air . |