Example sentences of "[vb past] that she [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others .
2 He stretched out a hand to Merrill , and she found that she needed it to escape the embrace of the thick , downy cushions .
3 But she added that she feared it would not be possible to impose planning controls below the low-water mark , where the drilling rigs would be established .
4 Bessie Parkes more prudently replied that she thought it was " undeniable " that it would bring lower wages but " it was only fair to let women have a fair share in the competition " .
5 When they came up the grassy track that led to the headland , out of the wood that clothed the side of the valley where the village was , the girl was delighted and her mother relieved that she liked it .
6 But a remnant of caution urged that she tone it down , after all , Lucy …
7 Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part .
8 That was the easiest thing she had ever done , but Sean was the type who thought that she enjoyed it .
9 As she pulled the dress over my head she said that she thought it would still fit her , that she could see the hole at the neckline where my grandmother had pinned a pearl brooch as something old , that the classic line never dated .
10 But then you see , she said that she thought it was too many so she put it
11 from Pilkingtons and there 's little , she said you would n't notice it but there 's little like , little things on and when he did the grouting yesterday she said that she said it was awful , she did n't like it at all so she told him this morning
12 ‘ I said that she believed it , ’ she persisted furiously .
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