Example sentences of "that she [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that she felt up to arguing , she was forced to admit . |
| 2 | Her heart was beating so fast that she felt out of breath . |
| 3 | The idea of school was so soothing that she hung on to it tightly . |
| 4 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 5 | It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 6 | He let it go at that , smiling to himself as he suggested to Iris Sunderby that she go up to her room and put her things together . |
| 7 | It was not for some time , and after some acquaintance , that she got round to thinking that one of the most charming features of Clelia 's room was its sense of prolonged nursery associations . |
| 8 | R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with |
| 9 | Once she tells us that she woke up and then that she prepared breakfast , we assume certain facts : that she got out of bed , for example . |
| 10 | He had such a nice voice that she looked up with a smile , expecting to see a nice , kind face to match . |
| 11 | She hesitated over several , dark , rather unobtrusive garments in one corner , thinking that they looked harmless until two creeping , fog-like hands reached for her and an evil chuckle filled the room , so that she shot back to the room 's centre out of their reach . |
| 12 | It was something of a standing joke that she lived up to her Libran indecisiveness . |
| 13 | ‘ Debbie was born there and we still have a place there , but not the same one that she grew up in . |
| 14 | But there was no answer when she knocked on Louise 's door , nor when she tried another new friend 's door at the far end of the passage , and this was so discouraging that she went back to her own room and cried till her blue eyes wre red-rimmed and swollen . |
| 15 | He strode off and Maggie was so angry that she went back to her room and missed breakfast . |
| 16 | She was all but out of the door on her way to Oxford Street when , incredibly , she found herself shaking , so much so that she went back into the tiny bedroom and lay down . |
| 17 | Occasionally she let slip as much : that she went out with other men , enjoyed the crack , but that was all . |
| 18 | But its brightness was dimming quickly and its shafts withdrawing from the near buildings and then further and further away across the roofs , so that she ran out into it to catch some before it should go beyond her reach . |
| 19 | Or , in fact , that she ran off at all . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Dammit to hell , ’ he cursed , letting her go abruptly so that she fell back on the bed in an untidy heap . |
| 21 | She could feel the moment when he decided to thrust her away from him , abruptly stepping back , the shock of their coming apart striking as swift as a blow , stunning her , so that she fell back against the parapet , her lips swollen by the passion of his taking , a soft anguished breath escaping from between them . |
| 22 | Britain believed that she came out of it very well . |
| 23 | They touch down , and he pushes off again , taking her arm so that she glides up with him in spite of herself . |
| 24 | The diary that she sent off for , for me 's arrived . |
| 25 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |
| 26 | In Sargent [ 1990 ] The Guardian , 3 July , Boreham J at Leeds Crown Court is reported as saying : " You were so negligent as to be reckless as to this woman 's welfare " , by pumping so much oxygen into her during an operation that she swelled up like a Michelin man . |
| 27 | Roman sat on a corner of her desk and looked at her with such a grave expression that she cried out in alarm . |
| 28 | The beginning , a long time ago , was quite clear : sitting up in bed at home , swinging her feet round to the floor , standing up — and a warm flood spilling down her legs so that she cried out in fright . |
| 29 | But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 . |
| 30 | The full impact of it seemed to come from the roof , and was so strong that she jerked up in bed . |