Example sentences of "she [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not trust the count even though she admitted that he had a strange effect on her . |
| 2 | She had snapped at him again , and this time , remarkably , she admitted that he had n't deserved it . |
| 3 | However , she admitted that she had felt very miserable for 3 or 4 months . |
| 4 | Disconcerted , she admitted that she 'd only done this once before , that , in all honesty , I could probably do it equally well on my own . |
| 5 | The night before her operation Mrs Fellows was prescribed a sedative to help her relax and sleep because she admitted that she felt very nervous . |
| 6 | Encouraged , she admitted that she had been entrusted with their last £2000 , and had bought a houseboat , in point of fact , the barge Grace . |
| 7 | Reluctantly she admitted that she wanted to see him all the time . |
| 8 | After all the waiting for him he was here so unexpectedly , and she admitted that she simply wanted to look at him . |
| 9 | In spite of her rage with him she admitted that she found him just about perfect to look at . |
| 10 | She admitted that she had been thrilled at the idea of being alone with him , but all he was going to do was be stiffly silent . |
| 11 | But now she admitted that she 'd simply been unaffected by them . |
| 12 | ‘ When I tackled Didi about it she admitted that she 'd taken it upon herself to bribe one of the hotel chambermaids , a girl she knew , to do both . |
| 13 | After all , Mr Wormwood was a successful motor-car dealer so she presumed that he was a fairly intelligent man himself . |
| 14 | She revealed that he had not been taking anti-depressant tablets prescribed by a doctor . |
| 15 | In 1988 , at a particularly lively , contentious and near-violent writers ' conference in Budapest , Angela and I listened one quiet afternoon to the omnipresent Susan Sontag as she revealed that she had devoured ( her cliche ) the great classics of English literature soon after discarding her diapers . |
| 16 | She revealed that she first learnt of the threatened closure while her daughter was fighting for life . |
| 17 | Certainly Joanne Menzies appeared not to recognize him , although he 'd rather regretted choosing the character of Detective-Sergeant McWhirter of Scotland Yard when she revealed that she 'd been brought up near the Kyles of Bute . |
| 18 | She read that your life 's work is finding who you are and then being it . |
| 19 | I paid every attention to her during a long sickness and , a short time before her death , she requested that I should make a mummy of her body , and keep her beside me — I have kept my word . ’ |
| 20 | His own queen , whom Surere had revered so deeply , when she requested that she be buried not in the new City of the Horizon , but near her old home , in the Valley of the Dead across the river from the Southern Capital , had been granted her wish , though it had hurt Akhenaten deeply . |
| 21 | What I did not realise at the time , but discovered later , was that Mrs Singh had no idea that transfer next September had been suggested — she expected that it would happen straight away . |
| 22 | Finally they relented when she argued that they were simply wasting their money . |
| 23 | Acknowledging that it would appear unjust to pay higher allowances out of taxation to the middle classes , she argued that it would only be possible if the higher allowances were paid for by the income groups or occupations which benefitted from them . |
| 24 | He refused , whereupon she argued that he was impeding and delaying justice by cavillaciones et diffugia ( ‘ quibbling objections and subterfuges ’ ) , and aimed to dispossess her not only of Bigorre , but of her vicomté of Marsan as well . |
| 25 | This was the first case in Tanzania of its kind : she argued that she was dismissed because of her sex . |
| 26 | The only dish she made that we could tolerate was syrup tart , which we praised extravagantly , with the result that it became our unhealthy staple diet . |
| 27 | Not that she cared that they were going to be spending so much time together , she reminded herself hastily . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps she realised that something like that would make it easier for her to be found . ’ |
| 29 | She realised that what was being said about Michael must be true . |
| 30 | Now , when he allowed her so much of his time , she realised that what she had felt before was but a poor shade of the real thing . |