Example sentences of "[vb past] that she [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going to Libya in 1988 , Jousiffe — her name is English , possibly of French origin and not Middle Eastern in spite of its sound — found that she suffered from the negative influence she had absorbed and thought : ‘ I wo n't enjoy this . |
| 2 | Some years later , when her health and strength failed her , she found that she had to ; but when that day came , she packed her courage as well as her clothes into her suitcase . |
| 3 | They all agreed that she fell off the bridge . |
| 4 | Then her anger erupted , her hand flashed upwards and she had delivered a stinging slap to his left cheek before she even realised that she intended to . |
| 5 | The Irish star , who as a child was battered by her mother , revealed that she went to a psychiatrist to sort out her problems . |
| 6 | Referring to her disgraced son-in-law as ‘ Mr Mellor ’ , she added that she knew of his decision to resign ‘ some time ago ’ . |
| 7 | When pressed to give her views on Fatima , the daughter of the prophet Mohamad ( whose birthday is Women 's Day in Iran ) she praised Fatima but added that she belonged to 14 centuries ago . |
| 8 | By his order dated 5 August 1991 the judge directed that she recover on her counterclaim the sum of £24,751.59 together with interest for unlawful eviction , general damages and consequential loss . |
| 9 | She recalled that she had at the time been a little put out by the prince 's interest in Joan — but now the important thing was to persuade Joan to join in the festivities and bring her a first-hand report . |
| 10 | I just said ‘ Yes ? ’ and as I dropped the pen she 'd handed me back into her bag , I noticed that she carried at least two fat rolls of ten-pound notes secured with circular gold clips shaped like salamanders , or maybe alligators . |
| 11 | After a week , Val came back , tearful and shaky , and declared that she meant at least to earn her living , and would take a course in shorthand-typing . |
| 12 | Lady Eden once remarked that she felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through her drawing room . |
| 13 | ‘ You remarked that she looks as if she were asleep . |
| 14 | Over the next couple of days she discovered that she had to be careful not to think about Luke Scott . |
| 15 | Paige pushed the thought away ; until the day dawned that she had to she refused to contemplate it . |
| 16 | He theorized that she went into a shop and lashed out a bob or two on something like a tin of baked beans . |
| 17 | The inquest heard that she died from multiple injuries . |
| 18 | She appeared to have forgotten about my not going to the funeral but that was before she started to lose the steps to the attic , so to speak , so it just meant that she chose to not mention it . |
| 19 | Her strong competitive streak also meant that she had to be the most outrageous , the most rebellious and the most indisciplined girl in school . |
| 20 | Sometimes she dreamed that she stood in the dock of some great court , accused of terrible crimes , at others that she was having to use all her skill to free Anthony of a capital charge and failing . |
| 21 | She was so overcome by what she saw that she burst into tears . |
| 22 | Phyllisia too , rejected Edith , her only friend , like her father would have done if he saw that she dressed like a ‘ Ragamuffin ’ . |
| 23 | Julia made no effort to talk then , because her throat hurt so much , but later , over dinner , she felt that she had at least to try . |
| 24 | She also stressed that she wanted to be parented within a family . |
| 25 | It had been bad enough lying to Piers , leaving him because she knew that she had to , however much she disliked it , but to while away her time here , doing nothing but mulling over past events , was a recipe for misery . |
| 26 | Somehow he knew that she felt in need of comfort that weekend — even that provided by the man she had most cause to hate . |
| 27 | But he knew that she stared at him , and felt rather than saw the hostility there . |
| 28 | Then I thought that she lived in the cottage — Maria looked after her , perhaps ; or perhaps this room that was to be mine for the week-end was normally hers . |
| 29 | She had hated the pity she thought that she saw in her mama and papa 's eyes , and when her papa had suggested that she might like to spend a year in London with her Uncle Orrin , be presented at court , meet his old friend the Prince of Wales , now King Edward VII , again , she had agreed with alacrity — she , who had hated being parted from her mama and papa . |
| 30 | McEnroe insisted that she stay at home and look after Kevin , six , Sean , five , and one-year-old Emily . |