Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] that [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | She 'd loved that dress , felt so grown up in it ! |
2 | She knew what was to come ; she had seen that look in her friend 's eyes too many times these past few months . |
3 | She had discovered that mixing them with whisky heightened their effect , and my beautiful , fiery Mother became a zombie . |
4 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
5 | Something she had said that had reminded him of it ; something she had said about it ? |
6 | But on the whole there was a simplicity and directness about the way she had written that had pleased him , and occasional bits of unintended humour that had made him laugh , though the way she had written about her family — her grandmother in particular , had made him think her unobservant . |
7 | She had forgotten that slip she had made ; she might have known that he would pick her up on it sooner or later . |
8 | She had a little smile on her face because she had won that round easily and it gave her a great deal of satisfaction . |
9 | Dropping to her knees , as if she could no longer stand on her trembling legs , and heedless of the new peach gown and the pretty fawn pelisse she had bought that covered it , Theda set down her candle on the floor with quivering fingers , and covered her face with her hands . |