Example sentences of "[that] she [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going to Libya in 1988 , Jousiffe — her name is English , possibly of French origin and not Middle Eastern in spite of its sound — found that she suffered from the negative influence she had absorbed and thought : ‘ I wo n't enjoy this . |
| 2 | The chief US negotiator , Carla Hills ( the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations ) , said on April 6 that she hoped in the near future ( i ) for an amendment of Japan 's Large Retail Store Act , which currently made it difficult start up new retail outlets ; and ( ii ) a restructuring of Japan 's Patent Office , which was accused of taking an average 37 months to approve new products for the Japanese market , and thus of effectively hampering the import of new products . |
| 3 | Or was it simply that she looked like a large , mobile bag of laundry ? |
| 4 | She put the hairbrush down and began to pull hideous faces in the glass , pulling the corners of her eyes down with her forefingers and squashing her nose up with her thumbs so that she looked like an insane pug dog . |
| 5 | Zeno 's snapshot was Lori in the instant that she leaped from the low branch . |
| 6 | During the holiday her arm felt so lifeless that she went to a local Swiss hospital for an X-ray . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ANIMAL rights campaigner Vicki Moore was so upset by cruelty to cows and bulls during the festivities at Candelada , near Avila , Spain , that she wrote to the Prime Minister about it . |
| 9 | It was only when she went to America , headlining for the first time , that she came across the curious racial classification with which music there is compartmentalised . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 13 | This was her way of thanks — the only way , perhaps , that she knew in the pitiful misery of her life . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After completing her survey she ensured that she left without the concrete socks . |
| 17 | Not even Jonathan , she thought suddenly , ever really saw anything but the smooth , exquisite façade that she presented to the outside world . |
| 18 | Looking simplistically at her behaviour at home it might have been assumed that she conformed to a typical stereotype of an AD sufferer . |
| 19 | Without consideration he ripped the tape from her skin so that she winced with the searing pain . |
| 20 | Her heart was thumping so loudly that she wondered for a fleeting second whether Scott could hear it . |
| 21 | And there was scarcely a shirt to be found that did not have the high necks and ruffles that she favoured in the early days . |
| 22 | It was only later that she switched to the Laban Centre and started dance training . |
| 23 | It was not every night , she reflected , that she dined with a secret agent . |
| 24 | Besides the commitment in Korea , the United States made a firm treaty with Japan in 1951 to ensure that she remained in the Western camp . |
| 25 | Except that it was n't her name that she carved into the yielding stone , but her sister 's . |
| 26 | In the early 1980s , because of her past connection with the military establishment , intellectuals tended to shun her and rumours had it that she worked for the Chinese KGB , the Ministry of State Security . |
| 27 | 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 . |