Example sentences of "that she [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was there in the summer of 1980 that she became a serious candidate to be the Prince 's bride . |
| 2 | But Lucy 's blue eyes were so hurt that she felt a strong pang of shame . |
| 3 | One cup of tea and half a custard tart later it dawned on her that she felt a remarkable glow of well-being , for someone in her particular dilemma . |
| 4 | He said , ‘ Perhaps I have a salvation too , ’ and his voice was so low and his look so piercing that she felt a sudden clutch of fear , just as she had in the studio . |
| 5 | Outside , running the water into the misshapen saucepan , Sally-Anne found the stench indescribable , so much so that she began a desperate burst of coughing to prevent herself from vomiting . |
| 6 | In the early morning light he could see that she wore a black cape over a dark red dress . |
| 7 | Her gimmick was that she wore a different pair of glasses every day and somehow they all seemed to suit her . |
| 8 | He believed that she pressed a clenched fist against the 2in deep knife wound during the three-mile journey in her killer 's car from the telephone to the embankment at Twyning , Gloucestershire . |
| 9 | It was on horseback that she suffered a broken arm which has made her anxious about riding ever since . |
| 10 | While Thatcher made clear in a speech at a dinner in Havel 's honour that she saw a continued need for NATO and the presence of US troops in Europe , Havel stated in a press conference during his visit that it was " unfortunate to keep on insisting on NATO " , as the European situation was changing rapidly , and he made clear his preference for a common security system subsuming both NATO and the Warsaw Pact . |
| 11 | It was then that she saw a soft glow of light in Helen 's bedroom . |
| 12 | Linda Agran , a film executive , told me that she chose a female gynaecologist , Wendy Love , to do her hysterectomy because she believed in positive discrimination . |
| 13 | The House of Lords eventually upheld her right , recognising that she had a genuine interest , but providers of information ( particularly the BMA ) and social services staff were extremely uneasy about the apparent danger to confidentiality of client files . |
| 14 | Knowing that she had a long day in front of her , Laura decided to follow her friend 's good example . |
| 15 | Being a mere apprentice was boring and carried no cachet , and Lydia was dauntedly aware that she had a long way to go before she achieved the skills and ease of perfection . |
| 16 | The prize for the winner , was to share her next dinner , and ensure that she had a good time . |
| 17 | It could now become evident that she had a good figure . |
| 18 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 19 | The tabloids seemed hell-bent on knocking Diana off the pedestal they had put her on , determined to prove , or invent if necessary , that she had a roving eye . |
| 20 | The upshot was that she had a rocky route through the rest of childhood and adolescence while I slipstreamed smoothly behind . |
| 21 | The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer . |
| 22 | She did not want to tell Connor that she had a private plan in mind ; it was such a very long shot , and might come to nothing . |
| 23 | Although immersed in church and women 's group activities , nothing was known about her private circumstances except that she had a mysterious set of distant relations in Blairgowrie . |
| 24 | Her temper was caused by the fact that she had a terrible suspicion that what they said was true . |
| 25 | I had the feeling on reading it that a dam had just burst , and that she had a great deal more to say . |
| 26 | The manners which Topaz had been taught at the convent were good enough as a basis for acceptable behaviour , but she soon discovered that she had a great deal more to learn , and would also have to adopt a whole new set of values . |
| 27 | The little reporter realized suddenly that she had a real story for her editor and went pale with fear as she remembered that lady 's ruthless slashing up of her last offering , the report of an insignificant wedding . |
| 28 | However , Diana discovered that she had a natural aptitude for this work . |
| 29 | When many women would have been devastated , the 50-year-old took the news that she had a malignant breast tumour in her stride . |
| 30 | Dr Bean-Bayog said the charge that she had a sexual relationship with Lozano was ‘ outlandish ’ . |