Example sentences of "[vb past] she [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 2 | Then something , a movement to her right , caused her to turn that way . |
| 3 | ‘ I told her to check that seal . ’ |
| 4 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 5 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 6 | Well , when she , when it was , but now another man wishing to exist approaches that man , did she say that man was the intellect ? |
| 7 | Where did she know that name from ? |
| 8 | Not only did she have that reporter to cope with in the morning , but if those rumours about the Russians planning to dump some of their copper stocks on the London market were true … ? |
| 9 | Where did she find that dress ? |
| 10 | ‘ Where did she get that idea ? ’ |
| 11 | Where had she heard that pearl of wisdom ? |