Example sentences of "that [subord] she [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was thinking instead that once she got to university she would never need to see him again . |
| 2 | In carefully structured interviews on the concept of God with three and four-year old children she found that if she began by asking them to distinguish between objects which were man-made and ones which were natural and then to speculate about origins in each case , a majority of the responses referred to the natural objects being made by God or an unknown power ( almost half and half responses on this ) . |
| 3 | She says that if she went into schools and said she was going to talk abouty physics , kids would be bored . |
| 4 | It occurred to him that if she belonged to Gary , there was nothing to stop him taking a sort of family ownership too . |
| 5 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 6 | Her emotional upsets were beginning to take their toll , and she knew that if she thought about the hopelessness of her love for Silas she 'd begin to weep . |
| 7 | His tender , almost lazy exploration of her body swelled her love till she felt that if she died at this very moment she would have lived her life to the full . |
| 8 | ‘ Caroline made it clear that if she died before her husband then we would be made guardians , ’ said her sister Meriel Rosser . |
| 9 | And besides , she knew that if she waited till morning she would simply toss and turn all night . |
| 10 | Perhaps I should have been frank with her , admitted honestly that I did n't love her and that if she insisted on marrying me she would be condemning both of us to a joyless union . |
| 11 | To complete the welcome , she had — on Aunt Bridget 's advice — paid particular attention to her own appearance , making sure that if she smelt at all , it was a dried of lavender . |
| 12 | She had felt disappointment waiting to pounce , but swiftly he had assured her it was a magic egg , that if she washed with it carefully it would hatch . |
| 13 | Everybody else was in France , and she was afraid that if she stayed at home she might fall in love with some disabled veteran and marry him . |
| 14 | ‘ Papa , tell Belle Maman that if she looks at the baby like that , I shall get only her hat in the picture … ’ |
| 15 | She knows what I 've got yet she is convinced that if she looks after me I 'll get better . |
| 16 | She wanted to leave Alain 's mother with the very best impression and she knew perfectly well that if she sat with Alain there would be only brooding silence . |
| 17 | At five , Maura knew that if she wanted to be a part of their games she had to sit and watch quietly , otherwise they would sneak out of the garden leaving her alone . |
| 18 | She knows only too well that if she finishes in front of McColgan , she is also likely to be the winner of the race . |
| 19 | It was conceivable , she supposed , that if she remained in the village she might see him from time to time , and if she was lucky , she thought bleakly , he might even speak to her . |
| 20 | Or take the man who threatens a woman that unless she submits to intercourse , he will drive to the next town 50 miles away , buy a gun and return and shoot her and her children . |
| 21 | Councillors in Harrow , North London , wo n't allow that because she lives outside the school 's catchment area . |
| 22 | Pauline Golightly , 24 , of Vernon Gardens , Harrowgate Hill , says that since she moved into the house last October her Nissan Sunny has been vandalised four times . |
| 23 | The selection provides ample evidence that since she retired for health reasons from her full-time post as curator of the DLI Museum in Durham , Nerys has obviously been enjoying herself enormously . |
| 24 | How ironic that while she dreamed of becoming pregnant and bearing a child , her friend could think only of getting rid of hers . |
| 25 | She tells me that when she came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1910 and met her husband Abe Moses , she could only speak Yiddish . |
| 26 | Benny did n't know that Peggy Pine was an old friend of Mother Francis , that they had been girls years ago and that when she came to the convent she called Mother Francis Bunty . |
| 27 | I remember that when she came to the House she was , like her leader , a passionate supporter of CND . |
| 28 | And so it did n't really make sense that when she lay in bed half an hour later , with images of the evening playing themselves chaotically in her mind , her mood was rather blue and wistful . |
| 29 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 30 | She tells us that when she met with one of her sons ‘ against his will ’ , they quarrelled , because she , ‘ some deal moved with sharpness of spirit ’ , insisted on telling him to flee the perils of this world ; the young man , doubtless angry at his mother 's squandering of his inheritance , ‘ sharply answering back ’ . |