Example sentences of "[that] she [verb] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His hand curled around the back of her neck , slipping under the heavy weight of her hair , and she shuddered violently , her whole body so tense that she felt she would shatter into a thousand tiny pieces . |
| 2 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |
| 3 | Resenting my making decisions that she felt she ought to make . |
| 4 | She told me that she felt she could do this , and proceeded to do so . |
| 5 | Her own awareness of him was so strong that she felt she could have tracked him anywhere , just by the dizzying sensation of his presence . |
| 6 | Occasionally , he took his hand off the gear lever and reached out for hers , and sometimes he glanced towards her with a look so full of tenderness that she felt she could weep for joy . |
| 7 | Only later had it occurred to him to wonder whether he should feel alarmed by Charlotte 's anxious tone or flattered that she felt she could turn to him for advice . |
| 8 | She was so ashamed of not remembering what had happened that she felt she must compensate him in some way , so she kissed his mouth and stroked his cheek . |
| 9 | What Eleanor did tell him however , was that she was about to go on holiday but that she hoped he would come to a meal in her flat when she returned . |
| 10 | Her pen shot across the page , making symbols that she hoped she could decipher later on . |
| 11 | Liban turned in her direction with a levelled spear , and it was only then that she understood she must escape . |
| 12 | She took the memory of it upstairs to bed with her , but all the time that she wrote she could see him sitting there as he had been when he had first lit the lamp , his face full of an old pain . |
| 13 | And , anyway , she was n't so deluded that she thought they might make a life together . |
| 14 | Julia put the desolation that suddenly thrust itself into her mind down to her cold and said that she thought she ought to go bed . |
| 15 | And they talked to her , most politely : the Martin man asked her when she was doing her Finals , and she told him , and he asked her what she was going to do then , and she said that she thought she would do a teacher 's training course . |
| 16 | He put his hands on her shoulders , towering over her , his powerful body so compelling that she thought she would fall if he let her go . |
| 17 | An endless falling through time and space , and ecstasy so intense that she thought she would die . |
| 18 | He was looking at her with such tenderness and love that she thought she would faint from sheer happiness . |
| 19 | For some reason , this letter so unnerved her that she thought she must rush down to the sea at once , and run the thudding in her head quite out of it . |
| 20 | Every motion sent her senses reeling , deeper and deeper into the furnace they had entered together , until at last , as she soared to a height of such intensity of feeling that she thought she must burst , something exploded in her brain , and she was awash with the dizzying sensation of all-consuming love . |
| 21 | Piers turned around to face her , and for a split second his glance swept over her with appreciation , but the moment was gone so quickly that she thought she must have imagined it . |
| 22 | She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad . |
| 23 | ‘ Well ? ’ he barked , clearly not ecstatic that she thought she could lay down conditions . |
| 24 | The hand under hers clenched on the settee cushion , his face went red , and his eyes flashed such vindictive rage for a moment that she thought he would hit her , then he controlled himself , sitting silently by her on the settee , until she felt his hand gradually relax . |
| 25 | Ruth 's heart began to thump so loudly that she thought he must hear it . |
| 26 | Luce sat perfectly still , her eyes on his face , her heart beating so loudly that she thought he must hear . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret . |
| 29 | Heart beating , she waited to hear the voice that she knew she must hear . |
| 30 | She tossed her head defiantly , and just for a moment saw a flicker of something in his eyes before it was gone so fast that she knew she must have imagined it . |