Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help . |
| 2 | Oh , she had a pretty good idea : she only needed to go back to Felix Road or even Nelson Close , where she said she lived , to find out . |
| 3 | There was no tea break but Mr John and a woman , who she thought might have been a chaperone , would go into a little room at the end , where she fancied they had a nip or two . |
| 4 | Or she thought she meant herself . |
| 5 | Primaflora remained standing still , although she knew she had blanched . |
| 6 | She loathed herself for such pettiness , but she was so helplessly without any control over their relationship that pride or all that remained of it demanded that she administer these little pricks to his satisfaction , although she knew she had no hope of succeeding in puncturing it properly . |
| 7 | He had kept his word — although she knew there had been times when he was sorely tempted to ask her the questions that must have played on his mind . |
| 8 | Ace thought of it as some sort of insect , although she knew it had too many legs . |
| 9 | Daisy let Arthur pay for the funeral , although she knew he had no money . |
| 10 | He did not answer , although she knew he had heard her . |
| 11 | Although she felt she had settled down a lot since her last release from prison , she was still having difficulties coping with the day-to-day strain and isolation of being a single parent . |
| 12 | The latter was now staring at the Van Gogh boats and the milky sea and sky through poppy-scarlet lenses , which Frederica thought was perverse , although she wished she had the courage to ask for a moment to put them on , to see all this . |
| 13 | She would just about do , although she wished she had been able to wear high heels . |
| 14 | I thought she 'd be shocked but she was n't , although she said she thought I should try to forget him because it would only mean unhappiness for me . ’ |
| 15 | As far as Simon knew , the late-night callouts were an occasional part of the job that she did n't much like , but said that she felt she had to do . |
| 16 | WHEN Stephanie Cole went to the read-through of the BBC2 film Memento Mori , there were so many famous names present that she felt she 'd stumbled into Who 's Who in the Theatre . |
| 17 | The therapist pointed out to Liz that she seemed to be trying to get away from both the shop and the flat , and Liz then talked about her life with her boyfriend and that she felt she needed to start afresh . |
| 18 | The very reason she had applied to the shipping company for a job was that she felt she needed a complete break , a change of scene . |
| 19 | Not that she saw me teased , but even now I can give her back you know |
| 20 | When I probed a bit , rather reluctantly she told me that she understood he 'd had an ‘ illness ’ , and was a regular out-patient at a local hospital . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've never bothered much about Blanche 's Prowler and that sort of thing — it did n't seem to matter who it was , only that she thought something existed — but you 've stirred something up — ’ |
| 22 | And er half heatedly she decided she ought , she could n't have any more children you know she 'd , I do n't think it was money so much that she thought she 'd got enough and somebody told her about this Slippery Elm , well you could get a Slippery Elm drink , you know you know these milky foods if you 've got a poor tummy , that that can , er she bought a tin of this Slippery Elm drink , and she drunk gallons of it and it was doing her good and she thought er she thought it would n't , she 'd gone wrong you see . |
| 23 | It was on the tip of her tongue to tell him that she thought she 'd seen Amy on Friday night . |
| 24 | Though she told her husband ‘ shrewdly and shortly ’ that she thought she had married beneath her , he proved on the whole a sympathetic and supportive husband in what can not by any standards have been a normal or comfortable married life . |
| 25 | One night as she lay in bed with her husband , she heard ‘ a sound of melody so sweet and delectable , that she thought she had been in paradise ’ . |
| 26 | She caught her breath , a strange little movement in her face betraying the fact that she thought she had been tricked by him . |
| 27 | For dread — the old , quivering dread that she thought she had long left behind her — was settling in her bosom . |
| 28 | She worked throughout this period , but it was here , she says , that she knew she had disassociated herself from the University too much . |
| 29 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 30 | About what Margrida d'Arcos 's opinion of her might be now that she knew she had indulged in apparently frivolous love with her son . |