Example sentences of "[that] she [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Not that she saw me teased , but even now I can give her back you know |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was on the tip of her tongue to tell him that she thought she 'd seen Amy on Friday night . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | She caught her breath , a strange little movement in her face betraying the fact that she thought she had been tricked by him . |
| 13 | For dread — the old , quivering dread that she thought she had long left behind her — was settling in her bosom . |
| 14 | She worked throughout this period , but it was here , she says , that she knew she had disassociated herself from the University too much . |
| 15 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Temptation was even more dangerously irresistible now that she knew she loved him . |
| 18 | Not bad , she thought with a fierce kind of glee that she knew she did n't dare to show . |
| 19 | It was not that she was parsimonious or disapproving of alcohol , simply that she knew it had adverse side-effects on Liza and , not being much of a drinker herself , she only kept a small supply in the house . |
| 20 | Wilson knew she was being patronised if not mocked outright , but no trace of expression crossed her face and it gave her satisfaction that she knew it did not . |
| 21 | Parul Courtney told the court that she knew he had made love to other women , but added : ‘ My husband is not the first person to have an affair , nor the last . ’ |
| 22 | He was coming so fast that she knew he had not seen her and she had to brake sharply , frowning with exasperation . |
| 23 | I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised , her action in not leaving a note seeming poor thanks now that she knew he had only been trying to protect her from himself when he 'd called her clinging . |
| 24 | She scolded him then , in her cheerful way that she knew he did n't mind . |
| 25 | I felt that she had read my mind , that she knew I had contemplated transgressing the roof taboo . |
| 26 | Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law was similar to , though less antagonistic than , Mrs Kitchener 's daughter , in that she said she found looking after her mother-in-law a strain , that it was time-consuming , and putting a strain on her marriage ; she and her mother-in-law had never got on very well , and she ‘ would like to get her into a Home , ’ . |
| 27 | Her heart seemed to go climbing up inside her chest , but it was n't till Jake 's hand clamped over her mouth again that she realized she 'd been about to scream . |
| 28 | It was n't until the launch had vanished around the tip of Vittoriosa , and the soaring golden bulk of Fort St Angelo , that she realised he had n't told her what time he expected her at Casa Sciorto tomorrow evening . |
| 29 | It was only then , when her heart leaped alarmingly and her pulse quickened in immediate response , that she realised she 'd been half expecting he would n't keep the date . |
| 30 | She said with a shock that she realised she had grown up among the men on her father 's farm without seeing them as people you could conceivably fancy . |