Example sentences of "that she [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Her robe hung open , revealing that she wore only a brief pair of panties .
2 ‘ I think ’ , wrote Baxter , ‘ that she had scarce a pleasanter time in her life than while she was with me there . ’
3 A second later she had fallen to the ground , her hair covering her eyes so that she had only a vague impression of the man bending over her .
4 However , on a Dow-Stoker Returners programme she discovered that she had quite a strong numerical ability , and decided that she would like to work in an accounts department .
5 She knew , with a feeling of detachment , that she attracted quite a few stares herself , primarily from men , and that if she had not had André at her side she would have been in very real danger of having to concoct a few efficient exit lines .
6 Yet it is quite probable that she bears not a single one of the old king 's genes .
7 She failed him as a great ‘ silver ’ power , as a naval power at Trafalgar , and by 1807 her domestic polities were so confused by court intrigue that she appeared scarcely a reliable political ally .
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