Example sentences of "[adv] [that] she [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for sustenance , but so that she had something on which to focus her attention while she thought about her response to him . |
| 2 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 3 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 4 | Expertly his hands began their slow , feverish exploration of her bare skin , tormenting as they sought to inflame her further and further so that she forgot everything but the pleasure he could bring her . |
| 5 | Not that she knew anything about washing . |
| 6 | ( Not that she had anything against Greenpeace . |
| 7 | Not that she had anything against him . |
| 8 | Not that she had anything against the vicar personally , though it had been hard to forgive his refusal of her request for an ‘ Animals ’ Sunday' to which people might bring their pets to be blessed . |
| 9 | He did n't love her , of course , not that she expected him to , but he had n't been backward in the lovemaking department , had he ? |
| 10 | And it is not that she knows me to be bad or weak , or you either , but her conventional mind could not grasp that a thing so often impure , can be made absolutely and perfectly pure . |
| 11 | The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there , and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek . |
| 12 | It was two months later that she told me of her problem and the discomfort it had previously caused her . |
| 13 | Ellen was sure now that she had him for her own and most likely thought it a fair return for her investment of time and trouble . |
| 14 | She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart . |
| 15 | It was n't that she had anything against him personally ; he was a charming and clever man , dedicated to his school , an entrepreneur who was using the fruits of his success to fulfil a lifetime 's dream — and good luck to him , she thought . |
| 16 | It was n't that she wanted him to be here with her . |
| 17 | It was then that she told me about the hysterectomy . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Nature-lover , ’ he teased , and she knew then that she held him in some quite high regard . |
| 19 | Observing Irina in her advancing years , it is only occasionally that she reminds me of my mother or Aunt Anna — a look , a gesture , a sudden exclamation . |