Example sentences of "that she [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | MARY BAILEY revealed that she had kept an Oscar that was terrified by earthworms . |
2 | Penelope wished now that she had worn a dress or suit instead of the elegant tartan trews , but they had seemed the only way to make Rupert Stonebird notice her . |
3 | ‘ Would n't it be lovely if Terry was one of them ? ’ a colleague said , but Sarah said quietly that she had received a letter from him and knew when he would arrive . |
4 | Kit hugged herself with pleasure at the thought that she had raised a son who would be an engineer . |
5 | Down on the steps , Marie had decided that she had made a mistake . |
6 | She was beginning to feel that she had made a mistake , and allowed herself to be exploited . |
7 | I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too . |
8 | She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning . |
9 | A girl lunged over the grid , screaming that she had made a mistake , fingers just missing the disappearing chips . |
10 | But Albert was so sure that she had made a Will … |
11 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
12 | And , although she was rapidly coming to the conclusion that she had made a fool of herself all down the line , she still did n't quite know how . |
13 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
14 | It did not stop her knowing that she had made an idiot of herself and upset Harriet Shakespeare , who had enough trouble without that . |
15 | She knew that she had made an impression on Nicky , simply by the way he had looked at her when he and his mother had said goodbye . |
16 | As women do , she probably knew that she had made an impression on him on the two or three occasions they had met at Muthaiga . |
17 | No doubt he exaggerated ( such was his wont where his conscience was concerned ) ; yet the only news she had received from Em herself had not been happy ; and now — to learn that she had suffered a miscarriage in that desert place at such a time of year , and that she had not felt able to share the grief of it with her own affectionate sister … |
18 | Twiggy 's health came into the spotlight recently , with at least one tabloid paper suggesting in banner headlines that she had undergone an operation to save her life . |
19 | Though occasionally , like now , Betty 's family commitments — she had a husband and a three-year-old son — meant that she had to cancel a date . |
20 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
21 | Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind . |
22 | It left her so weak that she had to put a hand out to the table before she could sit down . |
23 | These words are well past her point of failure in the Schonell Test ( that is , ten consecutive errors ) , and so it is possible that she had reached a level of frustration : feeling that all the words were too difficult she ceased to think carefully about whether what she was writing down was likely , and simply put down anything that came to mind . |
24 | It was true that she had missed a period , but that could mean anything or nothing . |
25 | It seemed that she had had a row with her man and that he had left . |
26 | June Rogers reported that she had had a meeting with parents interested in improving the play area at the Sun Hill recreation ground . |
27 | In a £500,000 damages action at the Court of Session , she had said that she had had a collapse after being injected with anaesthetic drugs in the operating theatre . |
28 | Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise . |
29 | It seemed to her that she had had an insight of vivid and terrible power and that something should now change . |
30 | She had been studying for her A levels however when , after discovering that she had smuggled a pining and off-his-food spaniel up to her bedroom to sleep one night , her father had put some of her own recent doubts into words . |