Example sentences of "[that] she [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The art shop in Covent Garden was the largest she could think of offhand , and the minute she walked in she knew that she had done the right thing . |
2 | When Liz 's twin baby girls were born Laura was convinced that she had done the right thing in keeping the full extent of her father 's illness and the subsequent disastrous financial mess from her cousin . |
3 | People marvelled at the way Lilly Foley ran such an elegant home when she had five rugby-playing lads to deal with , and marvelled even more that she had kept the handsome John Foley at her side . |
4 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
5 | She saw immediately that she had said the wrong thing . |
6 | Again she knew at once that she had said the wrong thing . |
7 | The few moments that Merrill spent in front of the mirror told her that she had made the right decision to wear the black dress which exposed one bare shoulder . |
8 | She felt that she had given the whole thing away , that the Hare-woman 's eyes would be able to read all her thoughts from her face and that single word . |
9 | Well , to hell with you , sweetheart , she railed , and , her pride once more up in arms , a certainty in her head that she had seen the last of Ven for that night , she rocketed from her bed , took a shower , and got dressed . |
10 | The fact was that she had lost the six square inches of canvas allocated for the kettleholder when it was first given out to the class . |
11 | She had been so deeply involved with her own emotions that she had lost the imaginative sense that is necessary if you are to see other people as independent entities , locked in their private worlds . |
12 | He looked at Nell , and saw that she had reached the same conclusion . |
13 | Miss Tucker had made a statement to the police admitting that she had hit the alleged victim , Mr. Reiche , with a baseball bat . |
14 | She acknowledged that she had a bad temper but recently she had felt so angry that she had hit the younger child repeatedly around the head and shoulders , bruising him . |
15 | For a moment she regretted that she had forfeited the supreme triumph of thrusting the diary entries in front of his face . |
16 | I knew the police would think that she had killed the little boy . |
17 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
18 | Not willing to admit that she had had the same idea , Sophie said cautiously , ‘ Dawn was n't available to help him with the monkey . |
19 | Nine ladies dancing he decided perhaps that she had ordered the extra milk in case they got thirsty . |
20 | Carole 's first , irrational thought was that she had entered the wrong room . |
21 | Now that she had taken the first steps , she was not so much afraid . |
22 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
23 | The recent spell of warm weather was holding and Julie Murchison was feeling good in spite of the fact that she had spent the last hour in her Mother 's sick room . |
24 | Once they reached the canal bank , however , Robbie had no doubt that she 'd done the right thing . |
25 | When most of the dancers had set off for home , and Lucy had given Josie reason to assume that she 'd done the same , she sat in one of the empty offices for a while and then returned to the wardrobe department . |
26 | Maybe the fact that she 'd remained the only one had rankled with him too . |
27 | Laura had never had any doubts that she 'd made the right decision . |
28 | ‘ What stuff do you do ? ’ she asked , hoping that she 'd got the correct slang . |