Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd said then that Alice must have it . |
| 2 | She 'd heard since that he 'd left the health service and gone abroad to work … and now not only was he back , but she was expected to work with him . |
| 3 | She 'd realized recently that she did n't like herself much . |
| 4 | She 'd thought before that he seemed used to power , and looking at him now only served to strengthen that feeling . |
| 5 | No , she liked to hint obliquely that no one 's pleasure or comfort was obtainable without some sacrifice on her part . |
| 6 | She liked to think later that the dream was in some sort prophetic . |
| 7 | She did notice too that Moran was more carelessly dressed than she remembered and had n't shaved for at least a day . |
| 8 | Belinda had stumbled upon him one day several months ago when he was alone in a little-used store-room at the far end of the ward , and she had seen immediately that he was near to breaking down . |
| 9 | When he was alive , if she had to go somewhere that might not be safe , Tom went with her . |
| 10 | And could it only be two days since she had realised fully that she loved him ? |
| 11 | She had noticed before that the man whom she 'd dubbed Cousin Naylor had a penchant for answering only such queries as he considered he would . |
| 12 | She had hinted darkly that Wilson herself must be to blame , that she must have been weak , must not have written plain enough and as she had been instructed . |
| 13 | She had said just that to Miss Fairgrieves on her first day as governess . |
| 14 | She made Terry try it on , take it off , changed something else , and finally , at gone midnight , she had done all that she could do , and only then did she allow Terry to look at herself in the mirror . |
| 15 | ‘ This is not some countries , ’ retorted my mother , perhaps wondering again whether the money she had spent so that I might learn French and a little grace had been utterly wasted , for I had learned only superstition and discontent . |
| 16 | Anne found it difficult to like Hetty , although she had to admit honestly that it was partly because she was not Sarah . |
| 17 | Theda had reached down to clasp her trembling fingers lightly about the cold wrist lying on the coverlet , but she had known already that there was no pulse to be discerned . |
| 18 | There were things the men never spoke of to Angie ; and she had known instinctively that Eric 's job was something she and he would never openly discuss . |
| 19 | Later that Christmas Gabriel had drunk a bottle of rum watching a pirate film on the television , and she had known then that , really , it was all over . |
| 20 | Few men living in Leicester were not , Theda reflected , for in her former life she had learned early that this was the best hunting country in England . |
| 21 | She had learned only that she must leave the company soon , Mr Frobisher not being at all disposed to cross swords with Laurence . |
| 22 | She had screamed so that her mother came . |
| 23 | In passing she had mentioned once that she missed the fox terrier , Rex , they had had many years ago as children . |
| 24 | Would her mother 's actions destroy the only friendship she had left now that her father was dead ? |
| 25 | This was the first time she had admitted openly that all was not well ; and I was forced to reassure her , for otherwise she might find herself in sympathy with me , she might come to my side , and this was unthinkable , for to be understood by her was a prospect beyond endurance . |
| 26 | She had looked twice that when she had limped into her cousin Mandy 's apartment in Vernon , in the Okanagan Valley , burnt out , exhausted , disillusioned and emotional . |
| 27 | But she wanted to experience again that lovely swooning feeling only he seemed able to invoke . |