Example sentences of "[that] she had [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deliberately , he refrained from remarking that she had called him by his Christian name for the first time . |
| 2 | Unaware that she had called him by name for the first time , she halted , still some feet away , gazing at him uncertainly . |
| 3 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 4 | He saw and understood that she had prepared herself for him . |
| 5 | Sarah told Maureen that she had received one by the same post . |
| 6 | And suddenly the emotions that went tearing through her were so terrifying , so cataclysmic , that she had to thrust them from her . |
| 7 | Lunch was served in a banqueting hall of extravagant dimensions and grandeur , and Folly ate ravenously , suddenly aware that she had eaten nothing since her lunch the day before . |
| 8 | She wished suddenly that she had met him under different circumstances : not as Jenny 's boy friend ; not as her fellow beneficiary in Aunt Alicia 's will . |
| 9 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |
| 10 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |
| 11 | In front of the fire she kept a dark tab rug that she had made herself from scraps of different-coloured material . |
| 12 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 13 | One lady positively adored her little Chihuahua , Poco , for 15 years , but the time came when he was persistently ill and she knew that she had to save him from further suffering . |
| 14 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 15 | Lee felt a wave of self-pity in response , so that she had to brace herself with pride . |
| 16 | Fenna loved Maggie , and knowing that all was lost and love had departed , that she had betrayed their long friendship , that she had asserted herself over his mastery , he howled and , dropping his shoulder , hurled her out of her safe nest and into the immensity of space . |
| 17 | Whether or not she was saved , it was a fact that she had saved him from a bleak scepticism . |
| 18 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 19 | She just replied that she had got it from the cupboard . ’ |
| 20 | The offender had a dispute with the victim as a result of the sale by her of his car : the offender claimed that she had sold it for less than it was worth , and had not paid over to him his proper share in the proceeds of the sale . |
| 21 | Edging away from him , she felt her legs collide with the low shelving , and realised with a jolting shock that she had backed herself into a corner . |
| 22 | Feeling a need suddenly for warmth and companionship , she turned , meaning to retrace her steps to where Fen sat , apparently engrossed now that she had left him in peace . |
| 23 | ‘ When she arrived at his flat one night and told him that she had left me after admitting everything , he was furious . |
| 24 | She then wished that she had greeted her with less solicitude for she would now have to hear how her aunt was . |
| 25 | Jane suspected that she had brought it on herself . |
| 26 | He pushed through the swing doors and was gone , leaving her close to tears and frantically worried that she had upset him for ever . |
| 27 | Sybille was an exception , but Laura liked to believe that she had persuaded her at least to cut down . |
| 28 | Her dreams were so vivid while the poem shimmered on her desk — signed , sealed , undelivered — that she had to catch herself from grabbing Lucy 's hands , kissing her right out in the street , holding her close at the end of each day , saying , come home , darling ; grabbing her and flinging her to the floor , ripping her clothes off , sinking into her breasts , fucking her like a sheet of flame . |
| 29 | She occasionally did style her hair that way and , since she had never so much as dreamt of meeting Ven when she 'd purchased her black dress , no one could suggest that she had bought it with him in mind . |
| 30 | As his palm cupped their heaviness , almost possessively , squeezing , caressing , make her blood leap , Lisa was suddenly overcome by a longing so intense that she had to restrain herself from falling on her knees and begging him to make love to her right there on the beach . |