Example sentences of "[that] she [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well yesterday apparently he told her that she had better turn up this morning cos of her excuses . |
| 2 | She made for the new extension , hoping she had imagined that speculative look in her young assistant 's eye , and feeling that she 'd better let him think the Palmer & Pearson file had dropped on her desk while he was absent on Friday . |
| 3 | She looked at his imploring face , and felt a stab of guilt , that he was right , that she 'd better take care … . |
| 4 | An ache that she dared not examine too closely . |
| 5 | Occasionally a cheeky shop girl in town , caring nothing , and with nothing to lose , would face her out , but Clara on these occasions felt such anxiety and associated shame that she dared not rejoice . |
| 6 | On the evidence in the present case I am satisfied that one reason why the plaintiff did so much for the deceased was her belief that , although she was not a blood relative of his , he would leave his estate to her on his death ; but , on the authority of Greasley v Cooke [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1306 , if the evidence was not sufficient to establish this positively , the plaintiff would still succeed on the fourth element in the absence of proof that she did not rely on the deceased 's statements . |
| 7 | Jorden v. Money can be distinguished , because there the promisor made it dear that she did not intend to be legally bound , whereas in the cases to which I refer the proper inference was that the promisor did intend to be bound . |
| 8 | In addition to ending the uncertainty surrounding her preferred successor , the announcement — made on Aquino 's 59th birthday — finally convinced even the most sceptical commentators that her previous statements that she did not intend to seek re-election for a further six-year term were genuine . |
| 9 | Ashley asked , speaking softly so that she did not disturb him . |
| 10 | A newly discovered fifth-century inscription ( recording an alliance between Sparta and a people called the Erxadieis in Aitolia : ML 67 bis ) suggests that Sparta normally had the obligation to help her league allies if they were attacked ( ‘ if anyone marches against the Erxadieis with warlike intent , Sparta is to help with all possible force ’ ) ; that she did not intervene to help Aigina is the measure of her lack of will to fight . |
| 11 | How could one not admire a woman so clear as to her needs that she did not care whose flesh she carved her way through , who did not care whose sleep she shattered in the small hours of the dawn ? |
| 12 | I have always known that she did not care to have me as a friend . ’ |
| 13 | In showing this place to her and wanting to see her walking in it , he was making her a deep gesture of friendship ; she was sorry that she did not care more . |
| 14 | Jehana was trying so hard to demonstrate that she did not care for Alexei 's attentions that he was sure that she felt attracted to him . |
| 15 | The answer is that she did not tell us . |
| 16 | She hoped that she did not appear to others like a worthy cause . |
| 17 | She pleaded that she did not do it and her husband 's inconsistencies and contradictions aroused suspicion . |
| 18 | The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving . |
| 19 | That she did not do so herself was beside the point . |
| 20 | Even though Carrie 's mother suspected something was different with her child , she was too caught up in her own religious world , that she did not do anything about Carrie 's obvious talent . |
| 21 | She knew that she did not love him but , more , she knew that despite his sophistication , he was not enough for her . |
| 22 | Through the long slow hours of darkness he saw her lovely face and forgot that she did not love him . |
| 23 | She found that she was able to think of Johnny dispassionately , and she acknowledged to herself with honesty , and a new clarity of understanding , that she did not love him , nor ever could . |
| 24 | She forgot that she had decided that she did not love Johnny and wanted him out of her life . |
| 25 | Leith began , but , when she was about to declare that she did not love Travis , she suddenly remembered that , in covering for him and Rosemary , she could not be selective . |
| 26 | Then suddenly , while aware she had told him that she did not love Travis , she realised that here was her chance of clouding the issue of who it was that she did love . |
| 27 | Helvin says that their break-up was so amicable that she did not move out of this Primrose Hill house for a year after the split ; simply moved upstairs to another bedroom . |
| 28 | Yes , it was Sam had it back off Miss Harker , ’ she concluded with a confidence that she did not feel . |
| 29 | She then had to visualize walking slowly towards them , knowing that she could stop whenever she wanted to so that she did not feel that she was being compelled to go near these birds . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm a shoemaker , sir , ’ she said , forcing a confidence into her voice that she did not feel . |