Example sentences of "that she [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He was terrified , and his fear began to obsess her , so that she felt her own body begin to knot up with tension again .
2 So furious was she , in fact , that she felt it wiser not to stay in the same room with him .
3 ‘ Anyway , I have reason to believe that she told her young man I was a history teacher in a modest direct grant school .
4 Eleanor Darcy made coffee , using a frugal quantity of powder and low-fat milk , too late for Valerie to murmur that she took hers black .
5 It was from there , on 28 March 1941 , that she took her last walk down to the River Ouse and waded into the water .
6 South-West Durham Coroner Colin Penna recorded a verdict that she took her own life .
7 He leaned down so that she saw his whole face was alight with a slightly satirical amusement .
8 Eventually Linda gave it up and admitted that Marilyn Duxbody was not present but added , with overtones of hysteria , that she expected her any minute .
9 No , she went on a Commonwealth tour , but it was in South Africa that she had her new success , and she stayed on there .
10 I 'm especially pleased Tracy chose the Evert Cup for her comeback and that she had her first success here . ’
11 Carolyn could see that she had her right hand clasped around the fingers of her left , and was squeezing so tightly that the finger ends were white and bloodless .
12 Gratitude that she had her errant responses firmly under control was flooding through her .
13 Then , with a final glance in the mirror , reassured that she had her wayward emotions once more under control , she left her tiny sanctuary .
14 For the best part of an hour Brazil produced a dainty dish to set before the Queen of the Netherlands , who may have felt that she had something better to do than sit out a sparring match in driving rain .
15 She sighed with relief , but the look in the SS officers ' eyes warned her that she had something worse in mind .
16 If he felt that she had something genuine to give , then perhaps she should go ahead and give it .
17 He took up a sleeping-bag , unzipping it so that she had something dry to sit on .
18 Even those who had never met her could tell from her letters and articles that she had something special ; an eye for the kind of colourful details people would remember .
19 Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear .
20 As the years stumbled by she found that she had nothing much to say to anybody .
21 She had dressed with extra care that morning and knew that she looked her best in the slim-fitting navy suit with a spotless white blouse , but it was disconcerting to be subjected to such a scrutiny .
22 It was a fair enough question , and when it came to being fair Fabia endorsed that she owed him this particular explanation .
23 She was beset by the realization that she desired nothing more than to go to the Hall as Anne Mowbray 's companion .
24 And in the moment that she laid herself open to dying she heard the whispery voices of the wild beasts in the wilderness :
25 And if , like us , you 've never heard of her , we should tell you that she plays his 14-year-old daughter in a romantic piece of ooh-la-la entitled My Father The Hero .
26 It was probably from her brother , a fellow of the Royal Society and of the College of Physicians , that she acquired her medical knowledge .
27 A passing labourer directed her , and it was in this anxious , preoccupied state of mind that she made her first appearance in Overclyst .
28 ‘ Aye , ‘ t is more than time that she made herself useful .
29 So he would accept that she thought him good , whatever she meant by it , and he at once felt a curious sense of relief and surprise within himself .
30 Thrift apologizes , whingeing , for the poisoned sausage , reminding Alix that she ate it twenty years ago , when she had no money and needed the sausage .
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