Example sentences of "she [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realised that it had been deliberately left open to add to her humiliation . |
| 2 | She was trembling with anger and tiredness , her legs a little unsteady from the effect of the aquavit , as she realised that it had begun to rain again . |
| 3 | She heard the voice again , over and over , calling her name , and then gradually she realised that it did n't come from the dream and she opened her eyes , staring breathless into the darkness . |
| 4 | She said that some social workers were uneasy about that , and she agreed that it involved trust , but it was also to avoid abandoning the problem to someone else . |
| 5 | When , in 1884 , G. T. Clark [ q.v. ] published his Mediaeval Military Architecture in England , she realized that it contained false assumptions about the origins of the various mounds or mottes scattered over the British Isles . |
| 6 | She realized that it stemmed , not from a noble desire to serve the royal family in general , but from a somewhat ignoble desire to see Edward in particular . |
| 7 | Lucy also saw the plan Doreen had in mind , but she doubted that it had much to do with married couples in search of outdoor adventure . |
| 8 | When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid . |
| 9 | Taking up an oil-can she went out and towards the old outbuildings , to the door next to the one leading into the barn and , moving it , she found that it had n't been oiled . |
| 10 | But , much to her surprise , when the bread was baked and she took it out , she found that it had turned to a beautiful large loaf of the finest wheat flour . |
| 11 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 12 | Sinking down on her bed , she found that it took her quite some time to get herself more of one piece . |
| 13 | On opening it , she found that it contained a note from Ben . |
| 14 | When Wendy opened hers , she found that it consisted entirely of crispbread and realised that she would be able to eat only during the applause — Harrison Birtwhistle 's music had not yet been written . |
| 15 | She learnt that it had been developed in the 1920s by a German physician , Dr Max Gerson . |
| 16 | Whether she realized that the French alliance of 1548 was exceedingly fragile , entered into faute de mieux , or whether she assumed that it had a solidity which almost three centuries might have been expected to give it , is not clear . |
| 17 | She came when it suited her , when she could spare the time from her other work , but she always popped in on Monday afternoons to make a start on the ironing . |
| 18 | It was not a style that she had affected before , but she decided that it suited her better than the severe chignon had ever done . |
| 19 | She 'd put a fifty-pound note in it and so she thought that it had been stolen . |
| 20 | That was wiser than she knew since it deflected her aunt from the shock of the announcement and gave her something to pursue . |
| 21 | Now , she knew that it had not been a hallucination , it had been real . |
| 22 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 23 | She knew that it had not gone unremarked … |
| 24 | On the previous Tuesday , she knew that it had been , in Johnny 's time , the 15th of August . |
| 25 | Even though she had only had time to glimpse the devastation that had been wrought , she knew that it had been a professional job , carried out by men who would leave no trace behind them . |
| 26 | Her Finals were approaching , and she had no idea of what she should do next , and indeed did not dare to think about the future for she knew that it offered her little in the way of readily acceptable projects . |
| 27 | Clara regarded her own development with unreserved satisfaction , for she knew that it promised well . |
| 28 | A cool little breeze was blowing , and she shivered as it ran playfully over her heated skin and ruffled the long strands of her silvery hair so that it spilled like spun gold down her back , tangling with the lace . |
| 29 | She says that she screamed when it happened , she did n't know what to do . |
| 30 | When the frame was unfolded and set up she saw that it contained two photographs — one of a good-looking white-haired clergyman wearing a biretta , and the other of a ‘ sweet-faced ’ woman , her slender hand fondling the large cameo brooch at the throat of her dark dress . |