Example sentences of "[to-vb] that she [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a dismal yet necessary task , and whilst one can imagine a young woman 's producing such items for herself and her future husband , it is more difficult for us to accept that she probably also fashioned one or two smaller versions at the same time , for infant mortality was high . |
| 2 | Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood . |
| 3 | Aileen Baker was delighted to find that she only needed to borrow 60 per cent of the purchase price of a three-bedroom flat she had her eye on . |
| 4 | I 'll find chives and parsley , ’ she added airily , making an effort to indicate that she also had forgotten the incident upstairs . |
| 5 | Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities . |
| 6 | Margaret was pleased to see that she now had Reg 's full attention . |
| 7 | But by then she was so inwardly tense at the deception which through love and loyalty she had to perform that she barely noticed the grand buildings as she drove up out of the valley to where the town ended and a tarmacked road through woodland began . |
| 8 | In the seconds when Chesarynth was coming to realize that she actually mattered , another white car distorted the draughts with its brake-force . |
| 9 | The fact that she spoke halting Danish and fluent German and held a British passport led him to conclude that she probably knew the island before World War II . |
| 10 | But unknown to me , Lesley had approached the Chairman of Governors to insist that she as senior management ( because Lesley sees herself as senior management ) should be all owed to interview staff . |
| 11 | Eventually Angel came to believe that she probably had killed d'Urberville . |
| 12 | She went to sit on the sofa , and there she dreamed of Johnny , tenderly and with affection ; she thought of the words that he had said , and they made a warm spot , infinitely sweet , deep inside her where it could not be touched ; for just an hour or two , she began to believe that she truly loved him . |
| 13 | Neither of them seemed to realise that she never planned it . |
| 14 | It took Stephanie some time to realise that she always refused what was offered at the time when it was offered , whether out of a curious notion of good manners or out of cussedness Stephanie was never wholly sure . |
| 15 | She slaps her brand new skinhead again and again , as if to check that she really was wild enough to shave all those ratty locks off . |
| 16 | One would like to think that she even found it an advantage to be an ASROG , and that Miss B. and Miss T. , who could take it in their stride , had prepared her to enjoy it . |
| 17 | For Dorothy is still not in focus , and one begins to think that she never will be , even if the correspondence of the Pounds ' later years is some day published . |
| 18 | Jenny did not reappear and Sara began to think that she really had gone for a walk . |
| 19 | The servants used to say that she only cries when a Carew is about to die . |
| 20 | Maggie wanted to say that she only wished to go back , preferably on foot , but by now words were a little difficult to utter . |
| 21 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 22 | She was to say that she always knew his moods . |