Example sentences of "that she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 One more guilty secret that Maggie felt obliged to keep from everyone was the deep fear and disgust that she felt at the thought of sexuality .
2 Neither did he , for the moment , recognise her own diffidence as an indication that she felt in the same way about him .
3 On this particular occasion , having picked up her baby daughter , the mother was in such a haste to reach the safety of the shelter that she tripped on the stone steps leading down into its dark interior .
4 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 .
5 For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise .
6 The heron profile that she saw through the grille .
7 He played with his children and then suggested that she go to the nearby Windmill Inn for some beer , as travelling had parched his throat .
8 ‘ They were n't like you when I was at school , ’ had been his amused reaction when she had told him that she taught in the village .
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 The one that she had at the pool she threw on the swimming pool floor in disgust cos I put her back in the carrycot thing Yeah Ev Evelyn was saying oh will I , she said will you see me back er she said will I see you back in in the twos group ?
11 No doubt the jury would have been interested to hear that the victim had convictions for offences of dishonesty , and conceivably even more impressed ( though in law they would be wrong to be ) to learn that she had in the past tried to stab a policeman .
12 The chief US negotiator , Carla Hills ( the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations ) , said on April 6 that she hoped in the near future ( i ) for an amendment of Japan 's Large Retail Store Act , which currently made it difficult start up new retail outlets ; and ( ii ) a restructuring of Japan 's Patent Office , which was accused of taking an average 37 months to approve new products for the Japanese market , and thus of effectively hampering the import of new products .
13 Well , perhaps one could believe that , but not- ’ Her voice dropped further now and her head came towards Peggy , saying , ‘ Not that you never bathed her , never had bathed her , and that she got in the bath with her father every night .
14 She complained of too little to do now that she lived in the village as companion to an elderly lady .
15 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 .
16 At last her opportunity arose when Collin Brooks , a friend of both Eliot and her own family , suggested that she apply for the post of Eliot 's secretary which had fallen vacant .
17 Zeno 's snapshot was Lori in the instant that she leaped from the low branch .
18 Sabatini had sympathy for her , admitting that she went through the same ordeal before winning the US Open in 1990 .
19 But she made certain that my sister who was six years younger , she made certain that she went to the county school .
20 I would like to think that she died still being floated by the giant kite , that she went round the world and rose higher as she died of starvation and dehydration and so grew less weighty still , to become , eventually , a tiny skeleton riding the jetstreams of the planet ; a sort of Flying Dutchwoman .
21 They all agreed that she fell off the bridge .
22 Well , the main theory was that she fell into the river on one of her walks .
23 So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them .
24 ANIMAL rights campaigner Vicki Moore was so upset by cruelty to cows and bulls during the festivities at Candelada , near Avila , Spain , that she wrote to the Prime Minister about it .
25 His reply so angered Mrs Ellerton , who has an interest in local history , that she wrote to the publishers in Shropshire .
26 Of course Luiza should n't be paired with the lanky and very young tenor ; they 'd have to replot the run-up to that part so that she came into the ballroom with someone else .
27 Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 .
28 It was only when she went to America , headlining for the first time , that she came across the curious racial classification with which music there is compartmentalised .
29 But there is still the possibility that she came from the area north-east of the City . ’
30 Rose , for her part , thought that McAllister talked funny , and when Sally-Anne had told her that she came from the United States of America she had stared at her as though she had said that she came from the moon .
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