Example sentences of "[noun] that she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret . |
| 2 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 3 | His reply was so matter-of-fact , so lacking in emotion that she found it hard to believe . |
| 4 | In this sense , the definition of standards and routines can be seen as a defensive process : the housewife is defending herself against the allegation that she does nothing at all . |
| 5 | A passing labourer directed her , and it was in this anxious , preoccupied state of mind that she made her first appearance in Overclyst . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it . |
| 7 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 8 | Isabel lay very still , her muscles so rigid with tension that she doubted she could have moved anyway . |
| 9 | It was as a pioneer woman journalist that she earned her most lasting renown , sometimes using the pseudonym ‘ Filomena ’ . |
| 10 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , wife of the Ambassador to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople , was so impressed with the results of this folk practice by the Sultan 's Greek subjects that she had her children treated and introduced fashionable society to its advantages in 1721 ; as much for the protection of complexion as for the preservation of health . |
| 11 | It had been a long time since she had had to stop herself simply blowing away an enemy that she found herself unable to either maim or restrain . |
| 12 | Not bad , she thought with a fierce kind of glee that she knew she did n't dare to show . |
| 13 | It was only when the colours gave way to plain gold before subsiding into diminishing fountains of silver that she realised she had moved closer to Rune , seeking instinctive protection against the sharp noise of the exploding rockets and that he had gathered her to his strong male body , pinning her to his side by the power of his arm , his hand firmly pressed against her waist . |
| 14 | If you do give your heroine this skill you will have to some extent to prove to your readers that she had it . |
| 15 | Franca had her pride , and part of making her situation endurable must be the fiction that she endured it , if not cheerfully , at least stoically . |
| 16 | Sure enough , Marc quirked his brow and asked , ‘ You intend to stick to this story that she knew nothing of your financial prospects ? ’ |
| 17 | And did n't really know anything about rabbits and I know my aunt it 's a sort of family story that she took her doe to the buck and the buck had babies . |
| 18 | For dread — the old , quivering dread that she thought she had long left behind her — was settling in her bosom . |
| 19 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |
| 20 | I feel sorry for the little girl and I suggest to the writer that she consoles her daughter by telling her that the vile custom of killing wild animals for fun is on the way out , that almost all british people feel as she does , and are determined to end such cruelty , and that she can help to bring about its end by supporting the League Against Cruel Sports and talking about the work they do to her schoolfriends . |
| 21 | His ring sparkled on her finger , lit by the flames of a fire in the grate ; Paul had the fancy that she turned her fingers deliberately , enjoying the ring 's brilliance and the evidence it gave of prosperity and caste . |
| 22 | He smiled and there was no triumph , only genuine pleasure that she had accepted his offer , and Ruth knew in her heart that she had nothing to fear from this man . |
| 23 | Now children am I right in thinking that when Mrs came in and took some lessons with you when I was on a course that she taught you how to count up to thirty ? |
| 24 | Occasionally , he took his hand off the gear lever and reached out for hers , and sometimes he glanced towards her with a look so full of tenderness that she felt she could weep for joy . |
| 25 | But she was filled with such tenderness that she cradled his head as he lay against her breasts and whispered , ‘ I 'm sorry , my darling , I 'm sorry … ’ |
| 26 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 27 | In the case of Letitia , who had married an Irish baronet , Sir Thomas Wyse , her refusal to accept the Emperor 's decision that she confine herself to being Lady Wyse , dropping all imperial pretensions by calling herself Bonaparte Wyse , led to her being expelled from France . |
| 28 | South-West Durham Coroner Colin Penna recorded a verdict that she took her own life . |
| 29 | Recording a verdict that she killed herself , Mr. Williams said : ‘ She was an affectionate girl , and a girl who needed affection . |
| 30 | He recorded a verdict that she killed herself . |