Example sentences of "[that] she [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This made her think suddenly of the pain which Neil Cochrane must have endured , so that she felt pity for him , after all . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd just like to look , ’ he said , and the picture he conjured up was so vivid that she felt heat rising to her face . |
| 3 | Her throat felt dry and constricted , while her heart was beating so violently that she felt Fen must be able to hear its pounding . |
| 4 | It may well be that she considers China to be as much of a long-term complication for the West as for herself : too capricious to make a dependable ally for NATO , too ambitious to fit into America 's design for the Pacific , too shrewd to challenge vital Soviet interests . |
| 5 | Her only concession to the occasion was that she wore silk , a green silk trouser-suit with the shirt open and a black camisole top beneath it . |
| 6 | You know that she read archeology by correspondence when she was at finishing school . |
| 7 | It was then that she read Angela Kunze 's manifesto , written in blue on a long ribbon of paper above her head where she rests against the wall : ‘ I am fasting to cleanse myself of fear and hopelessness , hate and violence , impatience and the lust for novelty . |
| 8 | It was not so much that she took things from the house — though his racial fear of the poorhouse or famine was deep — but that she left the house at all . |
| 9 | Nevertheless it was as an outwardly devoted wife that she took charge of Darnley 's transfer from Glasgow to Edinburgh , where she lodged him not in Holyrood , in case he infected the infant prince , but in a house belonging to the Canon of Holyrood . |
| 10 | They say in the village that she took Miguel 's soul with her . ’ |
| 11 | Rincewind hurriedly recalled that a dryad was so linked to her tree that she suffered wounds in sympathy |
| 12 | And it was then that she saw Christie Goldsborough coming towards her along the path , his spectacular , fur-lined driving-cape swinging loose around his shoulders , his feet encased in the finest quality leather , his carriage — a shiny , high-perch sporting phaeton — waiting for him just there , in the road beyond the church wall , whenever he had a mind to take the reins in his gloved hands and go dashing off to drink champagne and eat bride-cake at Frizingley Hall . |
| 13 | It was as Ashley stepped away from the cot that she saw Vitor . |
| 14 | ‘ Mrs Walker thinks that she saw Ruth in Woolworth 's . ’ |
| 15 | It was there that she saw women working alongside the men , lifting the heavy-looking mouldings , reeking of hot resin , from the machines , and stacking them on trolleys . |
| 16 | But the luxurious tropical oasis that was the Hamiltons ' house , and the fact that she saw Tom every day and had become friends with him , had led her to drop her guard without fully realising that she had done so , and now she was utterly vulnerable to him . |
| 17 | Now that she saw Rupert again he was rather less interesting than she had remembered — a little older , slightly inhibited in his conversation , and unresponsive to her semi-flirtatious looks and remarks in a way that puzzled her . |
| 18 | For her part Thatcher reiterated her support for rapid admission of the new East European democracies to the EC ( many observers suggested that she saw enlargement as a way of halting moves towards EC political and monetary union ) . |
| 19 | It was n't until Ronni stood up at the shore 's edge that she saw Guido standing watching her , bare feet planted in the sand . |
| 20 | I have been over her story several times and she is quite positive that she saw Monsieur Erdle walking towards the belvedere at about half past nine , although she is unable to state the precise hour . |
| 21 | It was only then that she saw Sandra , standing concealed in the shadow of the eaves . |
| 22 | A teacher in the Transylvanian city of Cluj told the Guardian that she saw corpses lying in the streets after troops opened fire on demonstrators . |
| 23 | Dhanraj began by stating unequivocally that she saw film-making as a tool for socio-political challenge ( she would not go so far as to say change ) and that documentary was best suited to this purpose . |
| 24 | Left alone she was so docile that she ignored Frankie completely , but in the company of the ferocious Rosie she , too , became a dangerous animal . |
| 25 | It is no accident that she chose Friday the 13th to resign , writes Tony Samstag . |
| 26 | Similarly , for the teenage girl from a strongly Catholic family it might be particularly important that she avoid pregnancy in a relationship with a boy to whom she felt sure she would not like to be married . |
| 27 | Devoy hinted that she expected Jackman to be her successor , by adding : ‘ She can have it [ the title ] after me . ’ |
| 28 | Often in the past he had tried to keep her in bed in the morning , but always she had pushed off his sleep-drugged advances with a brusque reminder that she had work to do , stubbornly shutting her mind to the tenderness of a few hours before . |
| 29 | Did you also know that she had connections with the Dublin and London criminal underworlds ? |
| 30 | The problem with this was that although Dawn was interested in the chick , once she was airborne she also realised that she had freedom and that 's very attractive , too ! |