Example sentences of "tone that [verb] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so Clara told Clelia , in return , some of her own history , and in telling it , she seemed to find , strangely and more securely than ever a tone that absolved her , a tone that redeemed her past from meanness and humiliations , so that she even found herself able to speak of her own mother without evasion . |
| 2 | Yet there was something in his tone that chilled her even more . |
| 3 | There was a certainty in his tone that surprised her . |
| 4 | ‘ Where are you going , Rose ? ’ he asked in a tone that told her that he knew he had gone too far but she continued on her way . |
| 5 | There was something in the quality of his quiet , confiding tone that made her feel there was an intimacy between them . |
| 6 | ‘ But — but would that mean we should n't have our Pack Meetings each week , Trusty ? ’ she asked in a tone that meant she just could n't believe in such an awful thing happening . |
| 7 | It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later . |
| 8 | ‘ Private detectives , ’ he said in an offhand tone that infuriated her . |
| 9 | There was a tone in his voice that Breeze had never heard before — a tone that startled her , and made her look at him with wide , bewildered eyes . |
| 10 | And so Clara told Clelia , in return , some of her own history , and in telling it , she seemed to find , strangely and more securely than ever a tone that absolved her , a tone that redeemed her past from meanness and humiliations , so that she even found herself able to speak of her own mother without evasion . |