Example sentences of "that she [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Neither did he , for the moment , recognise her own diffidence as an indication that she felt in the same way about him .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Zeno 's snapshot was Lori in the instant that she leaped from the low branch .
5 Sabatini had sympathy for her , admitting that she went through the same ordeal before winning the US Open in 1990 .
6 So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 This was her way of thanks — the only way , perhaps , that she knew in the pitiful misery of her life .
11 After completing her survey she ensured that she left without the concrete socks .
12 Not even Jonathan , she thought suddenly , ever really saw anything but the smooth , exquisite façade that she presented to the outside world .
13 Without consideration he ripped the tape from her skin so that she winced with the searing pain .
14 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 .
15 It was only later that she switched to the Laban Centre and started dance training .
16 In desperation she slammed the stop-cock open and precious oxygen knifed outwards in an icy cloud that she aimed at the farthest point .
17 That was her style in the Falklands and it remained her style in a number of the confrontations that she faced over the next years .
18 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 .
19 Except that it was n't her name that she carved into the yielding stone , but her sister 's .
20 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 .
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