Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] [verb] she " in BNC.

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1 Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret .
2 Ruth did not have to finish what she had begun to say ; she saw from the look in their eyes that they understood her .
3 It was a bitter irony that he condemned her for loving a man who was out of reach .
4 The staff talked only banalities at her , until she could have screamed with irritation , and try as she might to ignore it , there was no doubt in her mind that they disliked her , these crisp women in their crisp uniforms .
5 ‘ 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 .
6 Isabel lay very still , her muscles so rigid with tension that she doubted she could have moved anyway .
7 When he did n't move or give any indication that he knew she was there at all — although he must have heard the car draw up and , unless he was deaf , the car door slam — she marched across to him .
8 Secondly were Mrs White 's brother and sister-in-law who were reported earlier as saying at second interview that they thought she should remain at home ‘ if things keep as they 're going now , and she gets the services she 's getting ’ .
9 Not bad , she thought with a fierce kind of glee that she knew she did n't dare to show .
10 Ricky was so furious with Perdita for deliberately sabotaging her scholarship that he gave her the sack .
11 I was n't sure if this was a reproach that he deserted her the rest of the year .
12 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 .
13 The pittance that he allowed her to keep herself and his two children could not make much of a dent in Tawell 's more than robust bank account .
14 Nigel told Eleanor that he despised her for making a pass at him .
15 You go to a friend , or if you have n't got one there are people who specialize in it , and then you get them to marry her on condition that they divorce her immediately afterwards .
16 Taxi driver Alan Macdonald was so enraged by Linda 's story that he drove her straight to the Daily Mirror .
17 For dread — the old , quivering dread that she thought she had long left behind her — was settling in her bosom .
18 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 .
19 As you can see , sir , this lady is quite a redoubtable lady and it was with great difficulty that we persuaded her to await the outcome of this enquiry before insisting on seeing you personally , sir . ’
20 She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her .
21 Fru Møller , who resented the embargo on her taste within the house , and frequently complained of the frustration she endured at having to maintain the past in all its detail , enjoyed the discipline the White Garden imposed , the contacts that it brought her in the gardening world , and the admiration its unusual beauty reflected upon her .
22 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 .
23 Was Daff pleased with that watch that you got her ?
24 And receiver 's and that wa , when they sold off all the business , cos they , they then pay out the money that they owed her back .
25 It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long .
26 Pauline , who always had back problems , felt so sorry for the little mare that she took her over from Jackie .
27 She signed the forms that he brought her to sign , even though the name on them was n't always her own , and then Belov slipped them into a file under a stack of others and took them away again .
28 It was in May that I met her , on a return visit to Cley .
29 She looked so pornographic in her gimmicks that I wanted her to take them off again , or better , much better , push bits of them aside .
30 In the end , it 's on that rainy promenade that I see her .
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