Example sentences of "[noun sg] that she [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as she finished with the remainder of yesterday 's mail that she glanced through the window in time to see Silas walking towards the stables . |
| 2 | I wanted to show the break that she made under the pressure which could not be ignored or left without a response . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Neither did he , for the moment , recognise her own diffidence as an indication that she felt in the same way about him . |
| 5 | Zeno 's snapshot was Lori in the instant that she leaped from the low branch . |
| 6 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 7 | One said : ‘ By saying what she has said , one can only draw the conclusion that she turned to the Queen and the Duke because her marriage is in trouble and she is desperately unhappy . |
| 8 | After tea that day they all gathered in the kitchen and Mum brought out two great big bags full of dry brown stuff that she bought in the flower shop . |
| 9 | Except that it was n't her name that she carved into the yielding stone , but her sister 's . |
| 10 | Not even Jonathan , she thought suddenly , ever really saw anything but the smooth , exquisite façade that she presented to the outside world . |
| 11 | Beverley spends two days a week running the company — an arrangement that she negotiated with the University . |
| 12 | She told one foreign reporter that she knew of the rumours and laughed them off , saying , ‘ If my relationship with the General Staff makes me a secret agent , maybe I am ! ’ |
| 13 | In desperation she slammed the stop-cock open and precious oxygen knifed outwards in an icy cloud that she aimed at the farthest point . |
| 14 | On this particular occasion , having picked up her baby daughter , the mother was in such a haste to reach the safety of the shelter that she tripped on the stone steps leading down into its dark interior . |
| 15 | There is little doubt that she pushed for the creation of the Zollverein , imposing trade boycotts if states were unwilling to join . |
| 16 | But there is still the possibility that she came from the area north-east of the City . ’ |
| 17 | Finally , there is the question of the extent to which Catholic values influenced the definition of this post and the debate about the appointment of this particular teacher , given her values and the feminist perspective that she brought to the school — a situation that also occurred in the appointment of another teacher but in a different way . |
| 18 | By the time she arrived , still wrestling with this dramatic rearrangement of the stars in the family constellation , she had the beginnings of a bad headache , and it was only as she turned into the drive and saw the lights and heard voices and music spilling from the house that she thought about the party that was still , clearly , very much in progress . |
| 19 | Julia was so far out of her usual self-control that she whimpered at the prick of the needle . |