Example sentences of "that she came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Webster said that she came into my bedroom several times , fearing I might be in a coma ! |
| 2 | Of course Luiza should n't be paired with the lanky and very young tenor ; they 'd have to replot the run-up to that part so that she came into the ballroom with someone else . |
| 3 | Whatever it is , now the moment 's here that she came for , that she half foresaw , she wo n't tell . |
| 4 | And thus it was , that February evening , that she came to be standing at the top of the monumental sweep of the staircase , under the huge doorway , pausing for a moment , offering tribute to herself and all her gods . |
| 5 | And thus it was that she came to be , that February evening , standing at the top of the tower block staircase , leaning against the wall and panting a little from her climb , pausing for a moment and thinking gloomy thoughts about life and death . |
| 6 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 7 | We know that she came to grief . |
| 8 | the summer that she came to us . |
| 9 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 10 | ‘ I know she came to Oxford and I 'm certain in my own mind that she came to Breakspear College . |
| 11 | However , now that the papers had been reporting the recent news of her husband 's return from Australia — apparently determined to impress his name and tough personality on the City of London — it was obviously about time that she came to a decision about her future . |
| 12 | It was only when she went to America , headlining for the first time , that she came across the curious racial classification with which music there is compartmentalised . |
| 13 | She was of course aware that she came from a Catholic to a barely Protestant country in a state of intense flux and religious upheaval ; her new subjects presented her with a set of pressing confessional and political problems . |
| 14 | But there is still the possibility that she came from the area north-east of the City . ’ |
| 15 | Her teacher was white — indeed , all the teachers were white — and told them with great pride that she came from England . |
| 16 | Later that evening she had told him that she came from Newcastle , that her widowed father had remarried and that she and her stepmother could n't get on . |
| 17 | She told the poor people who had taken her in that the girl was illegitimate , and that she came from a bad family with an evil reputation . |
| 18 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |
| 19 | Rose , for her part , thought that McAllister talked funny , and when Sally-Anne had told her that she came from the United States of America she had stared at her as though she had said that she came from the moon . |
| 20 | Rose , for her part , thought that McAllister talked funny , and when Sally-Anne had told her that she came from the United States of America she had stared at her as though she had said that she came from the moon . |
| 21 | Her sturdy common sense , the downright attitude to life which never ceased to surprise him , the constant loving references to a papa and a mama who sounded remarkably practical themselves , even if they had spoiled their beautiful daughter , informed him that she came from a background very unlike any that Dr Neil had ever encountered . |
| 22 | He did not remember , perhaps , that she came from Trøndelagen and knew about the sea . |
| 23 | There was no other way she could think of , except to show the obscene and pathetic distortion of humanity that she came in peace . |
| 24 | It was at this salon at the age of fifteen and a half , working for a day 's wages of £1 plus tips , that she came in contact with Justin de Villeneuve , the man who suggested she should pose for some photographs and who later was to become her mentor . |