Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] that [verb] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many , priests too , who would wipe out in a day all the familiar things about Mother Church that endear her to us all , even the precepts and practices that are the reason she has survived for all these nineteen hundred years . |
| 2 | It was a clear silver flame that hollowed her with its hunger . |
| 3 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 4 | My mother would visit on Speech Day and Sports Day , wearing a Jaeger-style home-made camel coat and a pillbox hat , or her green velvet coat that made her look , I thought , like the Queen . |
| 5 | Of course , having always possessed an interest in astrology , she knew that it was her Arien opposition that made her react so whenever she was under threat . |
| 6 | Best of all Miss Martineau writes with a wry humour — of the karaoke bar that bans her as a foreigner and then welcomes her lest her Japanese host lose face ; of the popularity of sado-masochistic pornography , but without pubic hair ; of the burglar who first took his shoes off . |
| 7 | Harriet made a grunting sound that meant she 'd given in under protest and Jess did n't wait for any other sign . |
| 8 | Not for the first time she cursed the lack of experience wth men that left her with no clue as to how to interpret what happened between them . |
| 9 | It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later . |
| 10 | It 's my friend Linda that knows her . |
| 11 | In recent months the presidential asset has been the subject of some distinctly unflattering news articles , including a long Vanity Fair magazine story that painted her as an autocrat angry with her husband and out of touch with her family . |
| 12 | Clenching her teeth she pulled the door behind her , heard the sharp click of the Yale lock that shut her out . |
| 13 | The walls were brick lined and the floor covered with dull tiles set in a herringbone pattern that reminded her of a Roman villa she had once seen near the South Coast . |
| 14 | They gave her some astonishing Ophir crystal that made her feel three metres tall and very sharp . |
| 15 | Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison . |
| 16 | He seemed only mildly surprised when she asked him , in the appalling police jargon that made her cringe , to accompany her to the local police station . |
| 17 | MRS Leona Helmsley , the hotel queen dethroned earlier this year by a New York court that convicted her as a tax cheat , was yesterday sentenced to four years ' imprisonment and fined $7 million ( £4.5 million ) . |
| 18 | It was sheer , blind gut instinct that made her go to the porter 's lodge and lie . |
| 19 | Something — that same gut instinct that made her get his address alerted her . |
| 20 | A forager learns many things about a food source that aid her in the future , including its colour , shape , odour , location , nearby landmarks , time of nectar production , how to approach , land , enter , and reach the nectar , and so on . |
| 21 | Building on the TV success that rocketed her to overnight fame , she is set to make TWO movies and is launching a promising pop career . |
| 22 | Lady Grubb had fallen easily into the habit of behaving to her children as if she were some doggedly snobbish godmother , inviting them home every few months to look into their marriage prospects and treating the occasion as if it were a country weekend that put her to a lot of trouble , though her house was actually in the middle of London and fully staffed with unhappy au-pair girls . |
| 23 | As she entered the most dynamic period of her career , Kylie took stock of the success — and tried to analyse the curious chemistry of the TV series that set her on the road to it . |
| 24 | What was it about Luke Hunter that reduced her to such gibbering incoherence ? |