Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she thought , a little aggrieved : I do think Clelia might have told me , how could she assume that I knew her mother 's maiden name ? |
| 2 | I told her at once that I knew her secret , and made her promise not to send or receive any more letters . |
| 3 | It was then that I saw her wild , inhuman face ! |
| 4 | But she avoided my lips , so that I brushed her cheek , and as I tried to find her mouth she said , ‘ No , Kit . |
| 5 | I looked around and I hit her such a bloody fourpenny one that I knocked her flying . |
| 6 | ‘ I wish that I had her guts , ’ I thought . |
| 7 | ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’ |
| 8 | And the idea that I resisted her desire to vamoose from my apartment , that I was unmoved when she burst into tears — how could I , an aficionado of opera , fail to respond to lachrymosity ? — is a ridiculous exaggeration . |
| 9 | If we also assume that my neighbour assumed that I knew these facts about the world , and that I interpreted her words according to the co-operative principle , then we can also see why the way she actually phrased her request is not only true and relevant , but also brief and clear . |
| 10 | That I did in fact think this way , and that her assumptions about my assumptions were in fact correct , is borne out by the fact that I interpreted her words quickly , and that she seemed perfectly satisfied with my interpretation . |
| 11 | When Hellen was transferred to Toronto to continue her documentary film-making career , I found that I missed her cheery presence more than I had expected , despite many activities . |
| 12 | Jean so enjoyed the challenge of her new job that she asked her husband , Peter , then a watch salesman , to help her move the heavy rolls of fabric , put up shelves and pictures and generally bring some order to the store . |
| 13 | What could she say to him except that she felt her life — their life together — slipping away ; that whether she survived or slid wearily from her broken body , there was no longer any prospect of happiness for them ; that he should forget her and make his own world without her ? |
| 14 | Mrs Ware telephoned me five weeks after her husband died saying that she felt her children should be taken into care and she should be hospitalized because she could no longer cope . |
| 15 | He was terrified , and his fear began to obsess her , so that she felt her own body begin to knot up with tension again . |
| 16 | She found herself saying that she felt her father was going to ‘ drop down ’ in some way . |
| 17 | ‘ I read a very good piece by Candida Crewe , in which she said that she felt her life had been made richer by having had step-parents . |
| 18 | I told you that she felt her life was ended . |
| 19 | His voice was deep and soft with memories , so that she felt her heart dip , then beat crazily as she remembered the last time she 'd been involved in his research , when he 'd kissed her that morning . |
| 20 | The flat drawl was so calmly unmoved that she felt her throat dry in panic . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , I have reason to believe that she told her young man I was a history teacher in a modest direct grant school . |
| 22 | Washington insiders believe that she told her husband how she felt and suggested he should use the ‘ excuse ’ of Graves Disease , a condition affecting the heart rhythm which they both suffer from , as a way of standing down from office . |
| 23 | He says that she told her husband , they discussed it and decided not to tell the police . |
| 24 | We would always suggest firmly that she read her paragraph and reluctantly she would do so . |
| 25 | It was from there , on 28 March 1941 , that she took her last walk down to the River Ouse and waded into the water . |
| 26 | And did n't really know anything about rabbits and I know my aunt it 's a sort of family story that she took her doe to the buck and the buck had babies . |
| 27 | South-West Durham Coroner Colin Penna recorded a verdict that she took her own life . |
| 28 | The feel of his warm flesh under her finger gave her such an odd surge of panic that she retracted her hand as if she 'd been burnt . |
| 29 | But Mrs Brundtland left little doubt that she saw her country 's recession deepening if it stayed outside the EC . |
| 30 | It was n't until she was stumbling from the room that she saw her mother . |