Example sentences of "thing that [verb] she " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Alcohol and the smell of cauliflowers were the only two things that worried her .
2	Things that took her back to when she was young .
3	Things that filled her with joy and drew her into the everyday lives of the two people she had loved for so many lonely years .
4	She will really stare at things that interest her .
5	Marian talked over with him some of the things that troubled her .
6	He had asked her to talk to him about the things that troubled her , but she could not .
7	Her safety-valve , the thing that prevented her from going round the bend , was the fun of devising and dishing out these splendid punishments , and the lovely thing was that they seemed to work , at any rate for short periods .
8	The second thing that struck her was on a different plane , but was another restriction .
9	The first thing that struck her was the cold .
10	He was the powerful one , in terms of being a Cabinet minister , and that was the main thing that attracted her . ’
11	Another thing that drew her was what was called the ‘ power house ’ .
12	It was a force that she tried to hide away tidily , as her mother would have done , because it was a dark and hideous thing that shook her violently .
13	It was enough to daunt most people , but she once told me that the only thing that dismayed her was sorting out their incredible mass of luggage , making sure that the right things went by the right route and that nothing was left behind .
14	You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone .
15	The only thing that held her together was her skin .
16	That was another thing that annoyed her about the child : she always had to find something nice to say .

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