Example sentences of "[noun] and [that] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a start , he saw that the girl in black underwear was slumped , dead , across a couch and that she had been strangled with a scarf , which was still knotted around her neck . |
| 2 | She was about to tell him that was his own stupid fault and that she was n't here to wait on him — particularly since he had proved to be so inhospitable . |
| 3 | Cos every time they use it , she reminds them that it 's her telly and that she er could have sold it and got the money . |
| 4 | When Mary came in from work the day after the row she told Mum that she and Albert had had a talk and that she was going to stay with his parents for a bit while Albert sorted out a house and furniture and the paraphernalia of married life . |
| 5 | At 5 p.m. a staff nurse joined Miss T. and her mother and Miss T. told the staff nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she used to be a Jehovah 's Witness and that she still maintained some beliefs . |
| 6 | He concluded that ‘ a mandate is a mandate and that she will derive real strength from having overcome so tough a challenge ’ , a stirring endorsement , weakened only by Thatcher 's withdrawal from the contest at about the time the column reached the chattering classes ' breakfast tables . |
| 7 | It did not cross her mind — and would not , for several years — that Peter could not supply a complete companionship and that she would intermittently always yearn for metaphorical chocolate . |
| 8 | I told her that we already had the tape and that she would have nothing to do but be there and play the role . |
| 9 | But not long after this happy event Fergie became depressed that Andrew would be away in Australia for some months and that she and her baby were being ‘ abandoned ’ . |
| 10 | I assured her there was n't any harm and that she 'd done nothing wrong . |
| 11 | Baroness Blatch , minister of state in the Department for Education , announced that the government had agreed to withdraw its proposal and that she would seek discussions with its critics on a more acceptable formulation of the secretary of state 's responsibilities . |
| 12 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 13 | ‘ I have a document from the orphanage which says I am responsible for Natasha while she is in England and that she will return to Sarajevo for the school term , or when the war ends . |
| 14 | Millie took in at once that Mrs Quinton was a nervous lady and that she was n't very old ; in fact , she looked young . |
| 15 | He had explained it to her , explained that there were great forces in the universe and that she was destined to serve them . |
| 16 | She searched my house and got information from my daughter , telling her that I was sick , that I needed help and that she would n't go to the police . |
| 17 | Your aim should be to see that she does not suffer long periods of loneliness and that she feels so well cared for that she can manage to endure her period of sorrow without too many crutches , until life becomes worth living again . |
| 18 | The poet 's wife tried to avoid going , by saying that it was late for the child and that she would have expected her husband not to be curious . |
| 19 | Had he been hoping for Doreen to arrive and say she was no longer interested in the large Hastings home and that she 'd be willing to live anywhere with him — even to work beside him out in the wilderness ? |
| 20 | Six months later my grandmother told me that I was going to join my parents and that she , too , was emigrating . |
| 21 | He had already consumed more than one bottle of wine on his own , Alyssia managing to sip so slowly through her one glass that she was still stone-cold sober , and fully aware that at this rate her lift home would be out of the question and that she would more likely have to get a taxi . |
| 22 | Rosa thought of the Madonna , and thanked her , thanked her with a welling passion of gratitude such as even she had never felt towards her before that Tommaso had not taken advantage of her total willingness and that she was still intact — no one would be able to say anything against her.They could examine her if they wanted , those witches could paddle inside her to make sure . |
| 23 | It was a seemingly endless eight months before the letter arrived announcing Fiona had qualified for a Gold Award and that she was invited to St James 's Palace in London to receive it . |
| 24 | Alamena , Boz 's wife , is making life difficult for her , telling her she 's not to leave the camp and that she 's too free and easy with everyone . |
| 25 | Then she saw how the Oxo boy on the advertisement hoarding smiled and she realized that they had come a different way by a different route and that she was nearly at Mrs Parvis 's boarding house . |
| 26 | In the latter case the judge thought that the term " services " had been too narrowly construed in the past and that allowance should be made for the fact that a wife and mother does not work set hours and that she is in constant attendance on the home . |
| 27 | Without having to be told , she knew at once two or , rather , three things : the Second Front had begun , John was in the vanguard of operations and that she would never see him again . |
| 28 | She insisted that they were not seen often together at TVL and that she kept what she called her professional distance . |
| 29 | She was constantly promised that there was not going to be a war and that she would soon go back to her family . |
| 30 | She explained that Gran had once been a famous singer and that she played the organ and was teaching Oliver to sing . |