Example sentences of "that she [vb past] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So anything I could offer that would be nice , oh she said I do n't know , now , but I 'll tell you when you come this afternoon and so that she told me there was around five or six o'clock and it was too late so I said well I 'll go on Monday morning , but they er were all closed on Monday morning . |
| 2 | Ah , well I was explaining that to er the woman that cleans , you know that she told us we can wash ourself , you know . |
| 3 | It was in vain that she told herself he was a stranger , a man who had probably by now forgotten her . |
| 4 | Dot knew that she had everything she used so much to long for . |
| 5 | She looked forward to his usual visit that evening , but he did not come , and it was Comfort who appeared at half-past nine to remake Julia 's bed and see that she had everything she needed for the night . |
| 6 | He was a strange man , still lonely in spite of taking her for his wife , and kept his own counsel , never discussing his thoughts with her , keeping his troubles deep , and always ensuring that she had whatever she needed . |
| 7 | The jury found that she understood what she was doing but that her signature had been procured by her husband 's influence . |
| 8 | In both cases the creditor had left it to the debtor husband to deal with the surety , his wife , and had done nothing to satisfy itself that she understood what she was doing or to protect her from abuse by the debtor of the influence and reliance that would be likely to be present . |
| 9 | It might be thought that she understood what she was doing , and there was no permanent harm ( cf. boxing where there may be ) . |
| 10 | Mrs. O'Brien said that she believed what her husband told her about the company doing well and having good potential , but she was concerned for her son and felt that it was only for three weeks , and if it would do the trick , she would sign . |
| 11 | Mr. Williams , the bank manager , said in evidence : ‘ before the charge was signed I would have to be satisfied that she knew what she was saying . ’ |
| 12 | The strangest part of the adventure was the feeling that she knew what it was about when , in fact , she did not know . |
| 13 | As for herself , she was uncertain she had ever had any , and yet , for all that , she sometimes joyfully felt that she knew what it was about . |
| 14 | In these moments of gilded sensuality she had the wonderful feeling that she knew everything she needed to know , right here , and right now , right beneath her fingertips . |
| 15 | Again , though , there were some things which she was not well enough acquainted with him to mention — especially now that she knew who her Good Samaritan of yesterday was . |
| 16 | Cos I , I could tell she could place me from somewhere but she could n't remember where , well th I do n't think , she gave the impression that she knew who I was . |
| 17 | It was then that she said something which later I remembered and understood : ‘ I 'm sorry to have to do this to you , dear … |
| 18 | Before she had time to think , she 'd raised her own glass in response and it was only after she 'd sipped her drink that she realised what she 'd done . |
| 19 | She insisted that they were not seen often together at TVL and that she kept what she called her professional distance . |
| 20 | Now she paused so long before answering that she forgot what she was going to say . |
| 21 | The contemporary tumours that Eleanor had been an adulteress made it possible to believe that she preached what she practised . |
| 22 | She apparently told her , contrary to the impression given in the former interview covered by Document B , that she never condoned her daughter 's going away — which she referred to rather dramatically as a ‘ kidnap ’ — that she did everything she could to bring the matter to the authorities at the time , but ‘ was prevented ’ , that she had certainly never agreed to her daughter living with her brother , that her daughter 's health had suffered alarmingly , and that she never told any social worker that she had agreed . |
| 23 | We read that she intended , in Hamlet 's words , to ‘ leave betimes ’ , and that she did what she intended . |
| 24 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |
| 25 | It pleases me that she called me my darling and not my little prodigy as she once did ; this is the best sign yet that I am winning her back . |
| 26 | This had been doubly hurtful , for it meant that she not only did not want to work for and look after him but preferred his lifestyle to her own , and by implication ( for she was a lazy woman ) that meant that she considered what he did not to be work at all , merely a pleasurable means of making a great deal of money . |
| 27 | She hardly liked to admit that she wanted one herself |