Example sentences of "that she found " in BNC.

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1 It was in the pain that she found their love and tested it and found it so true that the bond would never break .
2 She found him attentive , intelligent , even charming , but with a distinct sense of separateness and pride that she found refreshingly unlike any of the other local men she had known .
3 She had to admit that she found swimming ‘ a bit boring really ’ but there was the possibility of shared recreation .
4 The answer she gave was not that she did n't know Mr Lawson 's stated reason for resigning , but that she found it incomprehensible .
5 She still , at this point , disliked the songs and it was n't until she was in the studio and involved that she found a passionate core to the music and began to revel in it .
6 It was after a tiff , when Charley went to sea , that she found employment in Devonport 's ‘ Royal Hotel ’ .
7 And he knew that she found his pacifism stupid .
8 Elizabeth 's travels now took her to Corsica , and she almost hesitated to tell me that she found Calvi more beautiful than Greece .
9 She did not go into details : that she found herself so physically revolted by the process that she had begun to retch , nor despite being warned that all new mothers had a fit of the blues after giving birth , she had been crying most of that day .
10 Tessa wrote to say that she found the shop which is tucked away behind ‘ Wheels 'n' Things ’ , a motor spares shop , quite by accident .
11 ‘ Miss Wharton , who with a young boy discovered the bodies , says that she found it unlocked . ’
12 Emilia reveals that she found the handkerchief ( ‘ Villainous whore ! ’ and ‘ Filth ’ , he calls her ) , and with her dying breath — that most crucial of all utterances to Renaissance beliefs — proclaims her integrity : ‘ So come my soul to bliss , as I speak true ; /So speaking as I think , alas , I die ’ ( V.ii.253f . ) .
13 Judy Bathurst studied art as a student at Leeds University , but it was not until ten years ago , when she went to live in Tuscany , that she found both the time and the inspiration to develop her talent .
14 She could not have said that she found him dull , because she did not know it , and was conscious only of her own failure , and her misery at her own personal inadequacy quite drowned any sensation of boredom .
15 And after no matter what contortions , it was upon Northam Station that she found herself , and with a ticket for Paris in her purse .
16 The hall into which she stepped was not a hall at all , but a large and very high room , with doors leading off it in most directions , and it was so full of unexpected things that she found it hard to know where to look first .
17 She was made of a strong enough fibre to cope with ideas to which she had already become accustomed , like murder and rape ; it was novelty that she found hard to accept .
18 It was not that the family did not make her comfortable or spare any expense to see that she had the clothes and servants she needed , but rather that she found their way of life , their attitudes , their conversation , humour , tastes and ideas completely alien to everything she was used to .
19 It had been a long time since she had had to stop herself simply blowing away an enemy that she found herself unable to either maim or restrain .
20 Her biggest regret was that she found it necessary to keep its existence from David .
21 It seems clear that she found some difficulty in arriving at an assessment of her feelings in relation to me .
22 It was when Kattina 's fierce tongue finally reached the sensitive folds of her slit that she found herself panting .
23 Even in the fifties my mother was still so relieved they were not poor anymore that she found spending money reassuring .
24 But Lydia had discovered , to her own surprise , that she found the matter too significant to quarrel about in a childish way .
25 He was laughing as he said this , but Cassie was not entirely sure that she found the idea particularly funny .
26 Mala did point out that she found elements of the message suspicious .
27 For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state .
28 Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy .
29 Maybe that was one of the things that she found so endearing .
30 The scenario had such an element of truth about it that she found herself embroidering details .
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