Example sentences of "[that] she [adv] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe the reason for this was that she was vindictively happy not to do anything , and it is the opinion of my sergeant here that she probably hated her husband almost as intensely as the murderer himself did . |
| 2 | Joseph Chamberlain , not Sidney Webb , was the man of her dreams ; but though she has been credited with overcoming romantic desire for the sake of her own independence , it is clear that she desperately wanted him to propose , with her eyes set on his becoming prime minister . |
| 3 | When she emerged , she found herself in a small square beside a canal so wide that she immediately realised it must be the Grand Canal itself . |
| 4 | Her desperation was now so great that she momentarily forgot his wound , striking out at him blindly . |
| 5 | Threading her way as diligently as she could through the mass of humanity , it was with a sigh of relief that she eventually found herself back in the vast City Hall square . |
| 6 | She told him that she firmly believed he was missing an experience to be treasured . |
| 7 | What she did n't like , and what very seriously worried her , was the way , after long moments of giving her a cold-eyed stare , Naylor Massingham should suddenly look at her with such a degree of pleasantness that she just knew she was n't going to like what was going through his brain . |
| 8 | She cares for them so much , that she even sold her home to help set up a sanctuary to look after them . |
| 9 | If that she even knew his address . |
| 10 | So firmly did she make it up that she even waved her stout walking stick in the air , and hallooed at Anna . |
| 11 | Sometimes her loathing was so great that she even forgot her new determination . |
| 12 | One would like to think that she even found it an advantage to be an ASROG , and that Miss B. and Miss T. , who could take it in their stride , had prepared her to enjoy it . |
| 13 | And so Clara told Clelia , in return , some of her own history , and in telling it , she seemed to find , strangely and more securely than ever a tone that absolved her , a tone that redeemed her past from meanness and humiliations , so that she even found herself able to speak of her own mother without evasion . |
| 14 | That was the point that she again asked him if he were homosexual . |
| 15 | She got in the canoe so rapidly that she nearly tipped it over . |
| 16 | But in the same column Beatrice complains that she nearly had her apartment burnt down after casually remarking that artists were rarely able to distinguish between their good work and their bad and therefore only critics could decide upon the value of a work . |
| 17 | This time her mouth fell open so fast that she nearly lost her top dentures . |
| 18 | Caroline realised that she was floundering in such a morass of conflicting emotions that she hardly knew what to resent most . |
| 19 | It came so fast that she hardly knew what had happened . |
| 20 | She was so pleased that he was able to talk so frivolously that she hardly distinguished what he was actually saying . |
| 21 | Death — she had so longed for it that she hardly gave it a second thought . |
| 22 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 23 | Tonight it had been her turn to give way , but agreeing to spend an hour in the Clarence with Colin and Yvonne did n't extend to any pretence that she actually enjoyed their company . |
| 24 | There were Harvey Nichols and Harrods to browse through , not that she ever bought anything . |
| 25 | Daphne treated them all with the same disdain , confiding in me that her one true love was still serving on the Western Front — not that she once mentioned his name in my presence . |
| 26 | So slow and patient was the seduction that she almost wished she was bisexual . |
| 27 | In the same moment , she started to come , hips rising so fast that she almost bucked him off . |
| 28 | Ellwood could see that she almost believed him . |
| 29 | She stared at the floor , turning pink and feeling so confused that she almost missed what Mr Hollins was saying . |
| 30 | It was a cool challenge , drawled so quietly that she almost missed it . |