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

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1 Fabia , not wanting him to think that she hung on his every word , turned away .
2 When Lou got in the car , the bulky jacket that she wore over her washed denim skirt got in the way of her seat belt and her movements as she struggled to fasten the buckle were jerky and nervous .
3 Already known to have a weakness for a pretty face , it was understandable that she worried now he chose to teach attractive young girls .
4 He had chosen to ignore the fact that she took out her frustrations on Carla .
5 But now as she stood looking at herself in a full length looking glass , she could see that she had indeed what the magazines described as the perfect figure , firm round breasts , a narrow flat waist , good hips , a small posterior , and long slender legs which were greatly enhanced by the silk stockings the assistant had carefully rolled on to them .
6 She stifled the inevitable tears of self-pity , only too aware that she had only herself to blame …
7 Suddenly Isabel was no longer floating , she was falling instead , the sensation so swift and unexpected that she flung up her hands to save herself , and found them clinging to the source of the heat above her .
8 There were those , of course , who 'd say that she 'd only herself to blame .
9 It was n't that she cared how she looked , she told herself .
10 ‘ Benedict ! ’ she cried , and did not know that she stretched out her arms to him .
11 There are scenes in variety , but connected by an interesting theme and one that she made particularly her own , the self-deceiver .
12 She ran up the path and knocked at the door , her whole body seized by such a trembling excitement that she thought perhaps she was going to faint .
13 She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it .
14 So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her .
15 She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it .
16 She began to feel that she knew where she was , a little : and after a while she too began to talk .
17 He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends .
18 She thought she knew herself very well , but faced with God she realized that she knew virtually nothing .
19 When they did converse , she said little and mostly listened ; it had only recently struck Angelica that she knew almost nothing more about Alina now than she had at the end of that first day .
20 It was only when she sat down that she realized why there were several spaces : her section of the carriage contained a group of unruly Italian teenagers who were obviously well beyond the control of the two middle-aged nuns accompanying them .
21 He grinned down at her and it was only then that she realised just what she had said .
22 References to Sir Thomas Hoby are , perhaps deceptively , formal , though Margaret was strong-minded enough to resist until 1632 his request that she make over her Hackness and other properties to him and his heirs .
23 For those who find Sue 's perfect BBC voice refined and soothing , it is a shock to learn that she ironed out her Black Country accent while studying modern languages at Bristol University .
24 She is looking for a dress for me and she is waiting to comb my hair , and she has the look on her face that she has when she guts the chickens .
25 She is far more likely to obey the rules if you discuss them with her , so that she knows why you make them .
26 end of the island as polar bears ; indeed , the sight of one was so surprising that she picked up her skirts and , with the younger children around her , fled towards the safety of her mother 's kitchen .
27 He sounded so fiercely protective that she wondered sadly what it would be like to have a man care for her as much as Roman cared for Berenice .
28 It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long .
29 Incredibly , it was not until she pushed open the kitchen door that she remembered just what day it was and what they were all supposed to be doing .
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