Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [that] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moody thinks that ‘ the final stanza may allude to a variant of Ariadne 's tale , which has it that she did not die of a broken heart but was loved by Bacchus ’ . |
| 2 | Indeed , legend has it that she was one of its founding members and was its High Priestess . |
| 3 | In the days of the Raj , British passengers on the Rajputana State Railway received enviable attention : this handbook is a personalized itinerary for Miss Baring and warns her that she may be kept awake by one train driver 's ‘ unpleasant whistle ’ . |
| 4 | At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart . |
| 5 | State Trooper McNamara reassures her that she has nothing to worry about because there are police there already . |
| 6 | It pleases me that she called me my darling and not my little prodigy as she once did ; this is the best sign yet that I am winning her back . |
| 7 | Mrs Barnet tells me that she expects her husband when she sees him . |
| 8 | Mrs Ross tells me that she later discovered that several years earlier near Paisley signal box two trains had collided with loss of life . |
| 9 | My informant tells me that she feels sure that the earlier event is still ‘ earthbound ’ and repeated the action . |
| 10 | LSE graduate Lesley Satchell tells me that she took a teaspoonful of oil to her arthritic grandmother Mrs Wyn Butler . |
| 11 | Indeed at times it appears that she thinks that this liberation progresses from age to age ( though in correspondence she tells me that she thinks that the conclusion to history may well be that we annihilate ourselves ) . |
| 12 | ‘ And your aunt tells me that she spent the whole evening in her room . |
| 13 | She tells me that she is not naturally brave or independent . |
| 14 | I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ . |
| 15 | Well she tells me that she 's going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring er dun put er Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job . |
| 16 | Well , she tells me that she is going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring , er , Don put her , Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job , he wo n't get a job , he wo n't work , and she said to Lee what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back , once they were properly divorced take Pete back just as a lover and I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea , I said then your not at his mercy because anybody who 's at Pete 's mercy will suffer , his got a very nasty streak , his got a nasty snide way of putting things . |
| 17 | But Margot , but Margot tells me that she 's loaded . |
| 18 | Erm , the the other things is a little while ago she was erm , er , er you know , giving me bills like for about five or six pounds once for cleaning materials , and I queried this , because it 's quite a lot of money and erm , so she tells me that she buys expensive erm bleach and she uses a bottle of that a week , well she only comes in three times , and I said well , that 's very extravagant I said and told her what , but since I told her that . |
| 19 | Another woman returning from feira ( market ) tells you that she became dizzy , confused and ‘ nervous ’ at the price of meat . |
| 20 | What can the orthodox practitioner do if a patient tells him that she has never been well since her husband died some ten years ago ( grief reaction ) or since the dreadful fright she experienced when she had a car crash many years ago ? |
| 21 | ‘ He 's asking her if she has brought the need-fire and she tells him that she has . |
| 22 | He still finds her extremely beautiful and she practically apologises to Pip for all the suffering that she put him through and tells him that she hopes they will still be friends ‘ apart ’ . |
| 23 | Once Stella has returned Blanche tells her that she has been raped by her husband . |
| 24 | During the brief journey to Brewer Street , Denice tells us that she enjoyed the film , particularly the surreal portrait of the afterlife . |
| 25 | Like Julian , who tells us that she wrestled for years with the problem of sin , Luther and St Teresa both struggled for some twenty years with a paralysing sense of their own sinfulness . |
| 26 | Once she tells us that she woke up and then that she prepared breakfast , we assume certain facts : that she got out of bed , for example . |
| 27 | When she tells us that she left for work , we assume that she has dressed for the outside world . |
| 28 | She tells us that she had studied scripture from childhood , and had been drawn to the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation at the age of fifteen , in 1636 . |
| 29 | Informs us that she has managed to buy a piano with her savings . ’ |