Example sentences of "[that] she [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headmistress had tried to insist that she go on a racial awareness course , she who had taught children of different races for over twenty years . |
| 2 | Or was it simply that she looked like a large , mobile bag of laundry ? |
| 3 | During the holiday her arm felt so lifeless that she went to a local Swiss hospital for an X-ray . |
| 4 | Over a period of about eighteen months , her father hit her mother to such an extent that she went into a Battered Wives Home five times , taking her two daughters with her each time . |
| 5 | She told the poor people who had taken her in that the girl was illegitimate , and that she came from a bad family with an evil reputation . |
| 6 | I am afraid that her reply was not as sympathetic as the contribution that she made as a Back Bencher when talking about Florence Smith . |
| 7 | This is her second book , slimmer but by no means slighter ; complex computer stuff that she turns into a fun thriller . |
| 8 | She winced , the force of his brutal remark piercing through her like a sharp knife , the suggestion of other women hurting so badly that she realised with a sick sensation that she was jealous . |
| 9 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 10 | Mary Leapor also knows that she lives in a dirty world . |
| 11 | Looking simplistically at her behaviour at home it might have been assumed that she conformed to a typical stereotype of an AD sufferer . |
| 12 | Her heart was thumping so loudly that she wondered for a fleeting second whether Scott could hear it . |
| 13 | It was not every night , she reflected , that she dined with a secret agent . |
| 14 | But her cause was badly damaged in 1985 , the day before she was to sit next to the Prince of Wales at a dinner in Florida , when it was revealed that she posed as a nude model in magazines and appeared in pornographic films in the late 1960s . |
| 15 | No one could have been more attentive than Mrs Gaskell to that interior ; one feels that she writes with a precise remembered image in her mind . |