Example sentences of "[that] she [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Even so , most of it was so pointedly on target that she began to leave some of her cynicism aside .
2 JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK .
3 She decided that she had done enough research ; it was time to start detailed plotting of her novel .
4 Her family believed she should be ‘ in a home ’ but she did not : though just a little forgetful , with the help of an interdisciplinary team she showed that she had kept enough living skills to get home again .
5 He was about to tell her not to trouble herself , when he saw that she had turned half away from him , revealing the curve of a breast beneath her shawl .
6 It was plain that she had said all she was going to say .
7 Not that she had said that to Dr. Saxby .
8 I guessed now that she had met this other man during her widowhood .
9 He , the laibon , was not so sad because he believed that she had caused many upsets .
10 But she made up her mind , did n't she , that she had to publish this book under a man 's name ?
11 After fifteen minutes or so , Julia thought that she had grasped most of the story .
12 She half-smiled , and one knew that she had decided this was the end . ’
13 She was drawn unquestionably to the appearance of things , though she was aware that she had as yet much ground to cover , and that she had followed many a false trail ; she remembered with particular regret the quantities of eyeshadow which she had once thought desirable , and the pendant earrings of the same epoch .
14 Julia was not at all sure that she had followed all the details of the story , and did not believe everything she had been told , but she did accept that Raffaella was genuinely afraid .
15 With the light of morning she just could n't allow herself to believe , as she fully had last night after his phone call , that she had blown all chance of an interview , and Fabia sipped her coffee and wondered — how ?
16 There was a terrible urge within her to just run away and hide , curl up into a tiny ball and forget that she had made such a stupid , stupid mistake by allowing herself to fall in love with someone as ruthless and cold as Luke Denner .
17 The landlord was aware of the fact that she had made that application but , notwithstanding that , on 4 December 1989 he applied for execution .
18 She told us that she had made several visits to the London Zoo and so was familiar with the appearance of modern apes .
19 She tore across the dealing room , then up three flights of stairs , screaming that she had closed Sir Willie , and that she had made several thousand pounds in that one day .
20 The director of The Long Roads , Tristram Powell , agrees that less equalled more in that performance : ‘ I was aware that she had played all these glamorous parts , and I had to get her to trust me and do much less than she was used to .
21 It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit .
22 Sources close to the princess were also upset by stories that she had suffered another bout of bulimia nervosa , the binge-eating disorder .
23 And she knew that she had seen that expression before , and very recently .
24 By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time .
25 One of the girls , the plump one with the freckles and the missing front tooth , looked very plain and dowdy now that she had lost all her pretty blonde curls .
26 She did n't know whether it was from the night that she had overheard his conversation with her mother in the bedroom , or when she saw him fling that shovel at the young man who , she knew , could have felled him with one blow , that she had lost all respect for him .
27 Sarah Fuller had complained that she had lost some money .
28 ‘ She confirmed a newspaper report that she had moved all her things out of Highgrove .
29 It was hard that she had to choose such an arrogant , disdainful man to fall in love with .
30 He knew that she had been the owner of a house in which murder had been effected ; he knew that she had inherited this house from her uncle , Ted Mosse , an old man who was himself worth investigating .
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