Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was only when the colours gave way to plain gold before subsiding into diminishing fountains of silver that she realised she had moved closer to Rune , seeking instinctive protection against the sharp noise of the exploding rockets and that he had gathered her to his strong male body , pinning her to his side by the power of his arm , his hand firmly pressed against her waist . |
| 3 | A passing labourer directed her , and it was in this anxious , preoccupied state of mind that she made her first appearance in Overclyst . |
| 4 | Not bad , she thought with a fierce kind of glee that she knew she did n't dare to show . |
| 5 | Another woman who had already had her baby was in such fits of laughter that she split her stitches . |
| 6 | The feel of his warm flesh under her finger gave her such an odd surge of panic that she retracted her hand as if she 'd been burnt . |
| 7 | The night before she had had calmly ‘ booked out ’ a personal protection weapon after , it is understood , telling a senior member of staff that she feared she was under surveillance from paramilitaries . |
| 8 | It was with a considerable sense of agitation that she found herself opposite room number four . |
| 9 | ‘ Will you be going to Somerset too ? ’ she asked and it was with a sense of relief that she saw him shake his head . |
| 10 | So , when Saturday dawned , it was with a feeling of release that she threw her wetsuit into the car and drove to the sailing club . |
| 11 | Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light . |
| 12 | Isabel lay very still , her muscles so rigid with tension that she doubted she could have moved anyway . |
| 13 | She felt very conscious of his presence , and it was with relief that she completed her task and sat back in the chair . |
| 14 | His reply was so matter-of-fact , so lacking in emotion that she found it hard to believe . |
| 15 | It was last year in Denmark that she reached her lowest ebb . |
| 16 | It was n't until Juliet was sent to lunch that she remembered her rendezvous with David at three o'clock . |
| 17 | It was with a slight shock of coming back to reality that she remembered her resolution to visit Miss Grimes on her way home that evening , as part of her contribution to Christmas goodwill , a sort of ‘ good turn ’ done to somebody for whom one felt no affection . |
| 18 | During Head of the Family 's stage run , Sarah Long 's agent , Adza Vincent , watched a performance and was so impressed with the promise shown by Crawford that she put him on her books . |