Example sentences of "she [vb past] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment Lucy had thought that it was Jeanette McArdle , but then she realised that it was n't . |
| 2 | She realized that it was not shame that made it cower , but further fear . |
| 3 | She reported that it was well written and the product of an expert . |
| 4 | She doubted if it was anywhere near the truth , but clearly it made Miss Beard happy . |
| 5 | When she got there she found that it was rather full , but being a regular churchgoer she did not mind going up to the front where there were plenty of empty pews . |
| 6 | For now she found that it was there , an entity — not quite picture , not quite story — demanding sense and shape : expression . |
| 7 | ‘ Hmmh ! ’ she murmured when it was over . |
| 8 | She vowed if it was humanly possible , no other patient would suffer a similar fate through lack of a suitable donor . |
| 9 | She had lined her pencil-box with pond-weed ready to receive the creature , but she discovered that it was not easy to get the newt out of the hat and into the pencil-box . |
| 10 | It was as if that was the only emotion Jack allowed himself , the only time he let down his guard , and she sensed that it was almost involuntary and if he could have prevented it he would have done . |
| 11 | She prayed that it was so , but she would never know . |
| 12 | She decided that it was probably just another disorientating effect of withdrawal . |
| 13 | But now ’ she thought that it was not that , but something worse ; Rachel , who had always known things , did not know them properly any more . |
| 14 | She walked down Chestnut Drive , and as she picked a leaf off a privet hedge here , and ran her hand along a row of railings there , she thought that it was not so bad after all , and that she would tell them about it : they always said , when accused of indifference , that they were interested , so she would jolly well try to make them show a bit of their interest . |
| 15 | At first Grainne thought it was that power was stealing over them , and then she thought that it was not power but strength , only that did not seem quite right either . |
| 16 | While they waited in the room , which was furnished like a nursing home , with the child reading a comic on the bed and eating a bag of shortbread biscuits , she thought that it was as well to be next door to the railway station in case she had to get away quickly . |
| 17 | Yet whenever she considered this possibility , properly thought it through , she knew that it was not even a starter . |
| 18 | She knew that it was n't desire for the acquisition of knowledge that drove him , but the programmed need to find the bomb . |
| 19 | Oh only a couple of weeks , no they were standing in the common room and she knew he was a virgin right and they were still going out and she knew he was a virgin when they first started going out and Rox goes oh so are you a virgin then erm erm James and he goes no and she was still going out with him and she knew that it was n't with her , obviously , and , and Roxy goes oh who was it then and he goes oh just two , two birds I met in erm Portugal and |
| 20 | Emily had read a lot of magazines , she knew that it was perfectly possible for a girl with Nan 's looks to rise to be the highest in the land . |
| 21 | It was then she understood that it was not too late to stay . |
| 22 | Through her tears , Constance began to tell the dreadful story — and , hearing it with her aunt 's ears , she saw that it was indeed dreadful . |
| 23 | Glancing at the big old wall-clock , she saw that it was still only eight-thirty . |
| 24 | Looking around the bedroom , she saw that it was almost exactly as it had been in the photograph , although now there was a book open and face downwards on the patchwork quilt . |
| 25 | It 's thought Becky Blandford 's hat came off as she fell and it 's not certain whether it had a chin strap , like the one she 's wearing here . |
| 26 | She felt that it was up to her now to protect her mother : Mama , do come to the House of Commons with me . |
| 27 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |
| 28 | That she felt that it was really something D P actually signed off .. |
| 29 | A little too late , she remembered that it was n't a good idea to goad Julius 's temper into life . |
| 30 | Then she remembered that it was only a selection of the poems he had been reading and she did not need to speculate further , for — much to her surprise — he began to read |