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

No	Sentence
1	In her insouciant assumption of the pleasure she gave others , Caterina was trapped : she expected that overflowing fountain of love , and when it was staunched , the guilt took her in its fist and squeezed .
2	After a few moments of frozen hesitation , she realised that to refuse his offer would only reinforce his current impression that she was a frigid little puritan with hang-ups about physical contact .
3	In therapy , she realised that making almost any change was better than standing still .
4	But then she realized that laid out before her was a flat surface .
5	As Miranda poured her coffee , she realized that checking the share price would now be her first priority every morning .
6	Somehow she doubted that preparing meals for the child and the husband featured very high on the agenda .
7	She found that establishing her own goals based on her needs made studying that much easier and gave a purpose to the activities and assignments she was asked to do on the course .
8	She found that thought warming and rather appealing .
9	Although she was terribly fond of the children she found that working with them was like banging her head against a brick wall .
10	Though his expression was serious she recognised that gleam in his eye .
11	As to direct selling , she believed that seeing off the threat of publishers was even easier : ‘ No publisher can supply all the books a school needs . ’
12	She believed that supplying cannabis to her daughter was morally right in the medical circumstances .
13	Surreptitiously she studied that lean , attractive face , so close to hers , the austere yet passionate mouth above a cleft chin , the brilliant eyes so fascinating in their shape and colour , the clear-cut bone-structure , the strong planes and angles .
14	She imagined that slash through herself .
15	She imagined that to walk that track , and to climb the rough hewn rock around the mouth of the cave , would bring her to the top of the canyon .
16	Cos she reckoned that cured it .
17	Inside she knew she would also be searching for Alain , but she thrust that thought away because there would be nothing there that belonged to her .
18	She decided that thinking in four dimensions was best left to the Doctor .
19	She decided that fingering was doing little for her , except making her more and more randy .
20	More importantly , by giving the impression that the government 's control-room department is neither flustered nor panicky , his confident , self-possessed performance has bolstered the prime minister 's own position just when she needed that support most .
21	She needed that anger , it helped her to cope .
22	Her story was that the morning news placed Burrows near Gainsborough , and she thought that exonerated him .
23	For she thought that to reject his money altogether might hurt him .
24	And yet she knew that swallowing her pride was something that must be done , she would offer Hari Morgan the inducement of her own premises , a free hand in design and the services of experienced boot and shoemakers to work under her direction .
25	She attempted to push him away , and then , as his wonderful mouth gentled over hers , she knew that to push him away was not what she wanted either .
26	She knew that writing his name was never going to get him back , even if they wrote it hundreds of times in the most beautiful book in the world .
27	After the Second World War , the street had changed , and she knew that had brought sadness to her late father .
28	I could tell , but I was n't letting her down too light in case there was anything else she knew that had n't come out yet .
29	As her eyes closed in sleep she knew that had n't been the case at all .
30	But she knew that telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they were did n't change anything for longer than the moment of the lie .