Example sentences of "that she [verb] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had rarely enjoyed herself so much as she was now doing , seated in Dr Neil 's kitchen , dressed like a skivvy and eating a huge meal , rather than languidly nibbling at it , as she would have done at one of Aunt Nella 's ‘ At Homes ’ . |
| 2 | Unaware that she had even done it , Maura opened her legs wide . |
| 3 | She had no idea , Leni was certain , that she had even harmed her brother 's career , let alone collapsed it . |
| 4 | It had simply been fun , the sort of fun she had with her women friends , except that she had also desired him , and he her . |
| 5 | The equally obvious fact that she had clearly felt he 'd married well beneath him — and into a family of which she had already disapproved — was something that Laura had n't known how to deal with . |
| 6 | For a moment she was afraid that David was going to ask her what on earth she was talking about and tell her that she had completely misunderstood his elliptical declaration , but he did not . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In Faye 's first painting , she had turned out so wraithlike and ethereal that she had secretly weighed herself on Faye 's bathroom scales to make sure she still came in at fifty-three kilograms . |
| 9 | I could tell by her voice that she had just said something which she believed , and I was surprised , because I had somehow thought her too clever really to believe anything . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Looking back , it seemed to Freddie that she had simply wanted him and him alone — as he had wanted her . |
| 12 | And it was no wonder that she had n't touched his lips with hers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |
| 15 | She 'd been so engrossed that she had n't heard him come in . |
| 16 | Because , so gradually that she had n't noticed it , the blue had faded from her sight . |
| 17 | ‘ He did n't try to flirt with me the whole time , ’ she defended , and half wished then that she had n't said anything about lunchtime . |
| 18 | She entered her room , but , as reality started to creep in , she suddenly realised that she had n't said anything more to him about that interview . |
| 19 | The fact that she had n't seen her prospective husband since she was ten was neither here nor there . |
| 20 | However they accepted that Mrs. Buttigieg is a regular and long-time customer and that she had n't seen their notice . |
| 21 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 22 | Having driven herself to meet Travis to obviate Naylor Massingham knowing that she had n't heeded his ‘ … in your interests not to see him again' warning , Leith discovered that she need not have bothered . |
| 23 | He was pretty sure that she had n't recognised him . |
| 24 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 25 | His change of tactics had been so cunningly disguised that she had n't realised what was happening . |
| 26 | I told her + she said that she had n't realised it was so bad . |
| 27 | ‘ I said earlier in the year that she had n't reached her peak . |
| 28 | It had seemed right in that split second ; now she wished with all her heart that she had n't done it . |
| 29 | She had thought she was tense last night , but now it struck her that she had n't known what tension was then because she had n't known what Luke could do to her . |
| 30 | Mildred spent a lot of time by the pond telling the frog-magician that she had n't forgotten him and that she would get him out if it was the last thing she did . |