Example sentences of "that she [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | It was then that she told me about the hysterectomy . ’ |
2 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
3 | Not that she had anything against the vicar personally , though it had been hard to forgive his refusal of her request for an ‘ Animals ’ Sunday' to which people might bring their pets to be blessed . |
4 | Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale . |
5 | She denied that she knew anything about the power of attorney . |
6 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
7 | She went with Breeze to call upon Mrs Rossitter , who was so charmed with her voice that she engaged her on the spot to read to her for two hours every day . |
8 | She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart . |
9 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
10 | Expertly his hands began their slow , feverish exploration of her bare skin , tormenting as they sought to inflame her further and further so that she forgot everything but the pleasure he could bring her . |
11 | Mrs Mohammed-Holgate was the temporary lodger whom the police arrested when , many months after the burglary , the original owner of the valuables thought that she recognized her from the description given by the shop owner of the person from whom she had bought the jewellery . |
12 | Might it have happened that she met a horse drawn set on its way to day , and that she squeezed herself against the tunnel wall in a vain attempt to let it by without harm to herself ? |
13 | The severity of her head injuries — when found she had lost 75 per cent of her blood and remained unconscious for almost six weeks — meant that she remembered nothing of the attack . |