Example sentences of "that she [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was terrified , and his fear began to obsess her , so that she felt her own body begin to knot up with tension again . |
| 5 | She found herself saying that she felt her father was going to ‘ drop down ’ in some way . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | I told you that she felt her life was ended . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The flat drawl was so calmly unmoved that she felt her throat dry in panic . |
| 10 | She had the cheek to say that she felt his wife would n't like it . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , I have reason to believe that she told her young man I was a history teacher in a modest direct grant school . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He says that she told her husband , they discussed it and decided not to tell the police . |
| 14 | We would always suggest firmly that she read her paragraph and reluctantly she would do so . |
| 15 | This development places extra demands upon the infant 's powers of attention and requires that she co-ordinate her behaviour with respect to both the object and the other person . |
| 16 | It was from there , on 28 March 1941 , that she took her last walk down to the River Ouse and waded into the water . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | South-West Durham Coroner Colin Penna recorded a verdict that she took her own life . |
| 19 | When the Rector gravely offered Alexandra his arm to take her in to dinner , Robert 's face fell so utterly that she took his arm as well , and moved lopsidedly from the room between her ill-assorted escorts to the unspeakable anguish of the baby . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And she said that she keeps her dog indoors now because she wo n't You know their big alsatian ? |
| 22 | But Mrs Brundtland left little doubt that she saw her country 's recession deepening if it stayed outside the EC . |
| 23 | It was n't until she was stumbling from the room that she saw her mother . |
| 24 | It was only by chance , returning on the other side , that she saw its brass plate . |
| 25 | When he turned to look at her , the firelight cast shadows across his body , so that she saw his arms not as arms , but as wings … and they will enfold me so strongly and so sweetly that I shall never want to be free … |
| 26 | He leaned down so that she saw his whole face was alight with a slightly satirical amusement . |
| 27 | For a moment she thought that she saw his silhouette against the window , but she could n't be certain . |
| 28 | ‘ … so I suggested that she cut her holiday short . ’ |
| 29 | She was so pleased to hear him laugh that she ignored his words and sat on the floor at his feet . |
| 30 | Alexandra was not entirely sure that she chose her clothes with the magazine in mind . |