Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had [adv] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had no idea , Leni was certain , that she had even harmed her brother 's career , let alone collapsed it . |
| 2 | She just sat on the stairs eating biscuit after biscuit until , just before midnight , the telephone rang and she heard the voice of the surgeon telling her that the operation was over , that it had been a complete success and that Paul was likely to make a rapid recovery It was after that call that Annette realised that she had steadily munched her way through two and a half packets of biscuits . |
| 3 | When Leo made some small movement , she was suddenly brought back to the present and became mortifyingly aware that she had just emptied her heart to a virtual stranger . |
| 4 | Her arms hugged around herself , she stood in the phone-box for a long time after she 'd replaced the receiver and it seemed quite incomprehensible to her now that she had n't contacted her mother before . |
| 5 | The fact that she had n't seen her prospective husband since she was ten was neither here nor there . |
| 6 | ‘ I said earlier in the year that she had n't reached her peak . |
| 7 | She knew she wore the scarf through a sense of guilt , a gesture to her family to say that she had n't forgotten her religious upbringing . |
| 8 | Defries had made it clear that she had n't abandoned her intention to destroy the heart of the Spinward Corporation , even at the sacrifice of her own life , and Bernice stayed alongside her at least partly to prevent her doing something rash . |
| 9 | She was seized with panic , remembering that she had not seen her own face for so long . |
| 10 | The short answer to that is I think that she had not forfeited her right to be maintained by her husband by being in desertion : she had only suspended her right and not destroyed it . |
| 11 | Relieved that she had not betrayed her real feelings , Sophie concentrated on the morning surgery , which , however , was not very busy . |
| 12 | Hoping desperately that she had not changed her mind , he leaned over and kissed her on the mouth . |
| 13 | The reason , we found , was that she had not changed her self-image . |
| 14 | ‘ Gloucestershire , ’ she saw no harm in telling him , and realised then that she had again forgotten her quest — that interview . |
| 15 | As soon as he was seated at the table she poured and handed wine , and he marked the breadth and strength of the shapely hand that offered the cup , and realised suddenly , noting the blue cloth sleeve of her gown , that she had already shed her mourning . |
| 16 | Feeling the heat of his gaze right through the thin material , she folded her arms protectively , realising only when she saw his mouth curve into a mocking smile that she had merely pushed her breasts upwards , making them clearly visible above the ribbons and lace of the bodice . |
| 17 | ‘ I began to wonder — to suspect — that she had deliberately crashed her car because this man — you — had walked out on her . |
| 18 | And she was bound to confess that the Larks had always made her nervous , that she had always dreaded her visits to their crumbling , chaotic , downright shabby ancestral home , with dogs leaping out at one from every chair and all those things they kept on shooting — pheasant , partridge , grouse , poor little scrawny things — hanging up to rot simply everywhere . |
| 19 | Pressed by the nuns to complete a kettleholder in cross-stitch as a present for her father , she had replied that she had never seen her father holding a kettle and that Daddy had gone away . |
| 20 | As she stared into her mother 's horrified face it came to her how strange it was that she had never liked her mother , because her mother had never liked her . |
| 21 | A friend once told me that she had never told her husband she was Jewish . |
| 22 | For example , at first interview Mrs Kitchener 's daughter expressed a great deal of antagonism to her mother , talked at great length about the difficulties she experienced in caring for her mother and said that she had often told her mother — and other people — that she ought to be in a Home . |
| 23 | We learnt later that they had also advised her neighbours to take out a summons against her for noise nuisance . |
| 24 | Empty house , chagrin perhaps that he had n't heeded her theme , loss of face with the TV company , negligent children ? |
| 25 | A moment later their glances met and , disturbingly , Fabia suddenly experienced a moment of confusion , and forgot for a while that he had not answered her question . |
| 26 | This was n't how she had planned it — not that she had really planned anything , but she had pictured herself , cold and ferocious , confronting him , shocking him with the knowledge that he had virtually killed her brother . |
| 27 | She had no doubt that he had deliberately misunderstood her unfortunate phraseology in an attempt to embarrass her . |
| 28 | Her subsequent unhappy reaction caused him to regret that he had inadvertently damaged her self-esteem by destroying part of her image of self which she presented to the world . |