Example sentences of "[v-ing] that she [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so excited to be returning that she was up before dawn and ready for the journey south long before the arrival of the taxi that was to take them to Berwick for the train to King 's Cross . |
| 2 | The procedure continues for weeks with the man unable to tell the girl that he still buys the ticket even though he no longer has a car , and the girl not wanting to hurt his feelings by revealing that she is just taking a short cut , walking through the car park on her way to W. H. Smith . |
| 3 | She consistently refused any offers of help with cooking and cleaning or transport to the hospital , maintaining that she was quite capable of managing for herself . |
| 4 | He stood for a moment longer , looking at her , unable to speak , seeing that she was so beautiful it was hurtful to him , thinking that in other circumstances he would be unmanned by such beauty , except that he was not unmanned , that was the very last thing … |
| 5 | He seemed incapable of accepting that she was very lonely . |
| 6 | Realising that she was n't following him , he came back , his whole manner suddenly , quite brutally antagonistic . |
| 7 | Peter Noonan has been patiently waiting in the wings for six years , and finally , whether it was seeing Terry so happy , realising that she was n't getting any younger , or the fact that I told her I was thinking of getting married , sh — ’ |
| 8 | Realising that she was too slight to lift him , Sarah was desperate . |
| 9 | ( Elizabeth Wilson recorded once realising that she was more than usually anxious about the question of what to wear when she was going to talk to a feminist group . ) |
| 10 | Fabia ended the call realising that she was quite looking forward to stretching her legs with Azor . |
| 11 | We did her the favour of pretending that she was not talking about her own lack of brains . |
| 12 | Perhaps in her company you fade psychologically — you are so used to believing that she is more attractive that you cease to believe in your own abilities . |
| 13 | ‘ Some other time , ’ he said , clearly believing that she was only stalling . |
| 14 | Had he emphasised the ‘ you ’ , implying that she was n't worth lying to , or had she simply imagined the insult ? |
| 15 | Ignoring the heavy irony of his voice , and deciding that she was just too weary to rise to the bait , Laura merely shrugged her shoulders . |
| 16 | Merrill returned , wishing that she were n't quite so transparent . |
| 17 | She justifies her response by saying that she is merely ‘ … trying to protect him from the rest of the class ; you know , children ( my emphasis ) can be so cruel ’ . |
| 18 | She refused to collect any welfare benefits , saying that she was n't going to have DHSS snoopers visiting the caravan to see if she and Neil were sleeping together . |
| 19 | He finished his letter by saying that she was still close to him and that he wanked about her a lot . |
| 20 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |
| 21 | They talked about a project together with director Hal Ashby , who was trying to raise finance for a film based upon a remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( which Nicholson later made with Jessica Lange ) , but MGM pulled out because they did not think Michelle Phillips was a big enough name , not apparently appreciating that she was once a starring member of a world-famous singing quartet . |
| 22 | We do occasionally get calls from people who 've dialled a number listed in one of the ads only to find that it 's wrong — an old lady in Dunfirmline insisting that she 's definitely not selling a Malmsteen Strat — or perhaps giving the ‘ unobtainable ’ tone on a number which does n't exist . |
| 23 | Mr when he gave evidence , assessed the parent 's contribution as quote absolutely amazing really , not just what they did to help the nurses but also in insisting that she was n't stupid , she just could n't talk they made it clear to the nurses and doctors that she could understand and we were n't to treat her like a vegetable . |
| 24 | Dr always insisting that she was n't campaigning for the legalization of cannabis . |
| 25 | He comforted himself by assuming that she was just a mother-figure to the young man and there could n't possibly be any sex in it . |
| 26 | Can he , after the row is made up and she has something for herself , be relinquished back to his car , knowing that she is not as greedy as he feared ? |
| 27 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 28 | " So are you keeping up your prayers to St Anthony ? " she would ask at the end of each interview , to which Sara would dutifully reply , " Yes , mother-in-law , " while knowing that she was not . |
| 29 | But like all such moments it came to an end , yet not before she had the satisfaction of knowing that she was not the only one affected . |
| 30 | Then , knowing that she was safely tucked up in her own bed , she would go through the mental exercise as she had done under hypnosis and imagine herself entering that cupboard under the stairs . |