Example sentences of "[that] she [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She is adamant that under no circumstances would she consent to further use of a nasogastric tube , whether or not she was drugged to such a degree that she felt little discomfort as it was pushed down into her stomach . |
2 | The tension was such that she felt sudden relief as they went out of the small room into the air . |
3 | It was only sometimes , in the warm dusks , that she felt this life was not perfect , not as full to her as it seemed . |
4 | These remained and the following sequence over a month all proved ineffective although she commented that she felt 20 years younger : Lachesis LM3 , stopping the remedy , Lachesis 200 , Syphilinum LM1 and returning to Lachesis LM3 . |
5 | I mean the one is a classic one when she knew it was Scottish based that she passed any correspondence on |
6 | Now that she took another look at it , it was a rather insignificant sort of nose on which any pair of spectacles might be expected to slip . |
7 | grandma er said when she went to China and that she saw these bogeys on the back of bikes that they were carrying |
8 | Surely we do not wish to deny that she saw these hazards despite her being unable to tell us anything about what she saw . |
9 | erm arguing and er they was going on about this because if Mrs went to a farm and then said that she saw some hens there that did n't look particularly fit erm and said they 'd got to be culled and if the farmer thought otherwise then we got into all sorts of tangles because we knew nothing about poultry . |
10 | She bit her lip and knew that she deserved such punishment . |
11 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
12 | One is that the not guilty verdict was brought on the understanding that she sought medical help in a psychiatric hospital , and that poor Jane finished her days in Broadmoor . |
13 | ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name . |
14 | In the reign of Canute , an aristocratic woman called Godiva attending a vigil of prayer to St Etheldreda in Ely , was so kindled in her love towards the Ely monks , because of the ‘ beauty of the place and of their devotion ’ , that she granted three estates to the monastery . |
15 | If he had guessed that she had prior knowledge , he was not prepared to say so . |
16 | Sally found that she had good abilities in this area . |
17 | I was moved to see that she had absolute faith in my goodwill , for she took the bag without glancing at the contents . |
18 | His voice sounded so matter-of-fact that she had little difficulty in ignoring the more flattering words . |
19 | Maria Iñes was dumpy and talkative ; Maria Teresa was dark and very like João , though not quite so good looking , and Maria de Graça was taller , plainer , and so intent upon winning herself a place in Heaven that she had little conversation for anyone apart from Padre Jorge , an oily man with plump little hands and a great anxiety to be first to agree with Dom João in everything he said . |
20 | He threw the handkerchief carelessly into a laundry basket , then before she knew what was happening , he was kissing the tips of her fingers , then her palms , then drawing her hands towards him so that she had little choice but to slide her arms around him and receive his kiss . |
21 | Just before leaving the consulting room she knew that she had one thing left to do and it was important . |
22 | He noticed that she had one button of her blouse more than usual undone . |
23 | Rosie said , ‘ Er — um — ’ and Shelley guessed that she had other plans for Saturday . |
24 | How dared he think it , let alone say it , that she had other men to settle her bills ? |
25 | Prince Charles , a man who by his own admission fell in love easily , pressed his suit even though his advisers told him that she had other boyfriends . |
26 | She boasted that she had two bedrooms and a bathroom , which had been constructed from a third bedroom . |
27 | yeah , they 'll be , and she 's always moaning driving Sue up the wall , why should I keep him blah , blah , blah , blah , doing nothing , we sit and look at each other and Sue said for Christ sake she said you 're twenty years old , not forty , she 'd been bad on and off again , throat , well she had the shoulder , throat er she thought she had , oh the diabetes was one were n't it , diabetes one , they thought she had , thought that she had glandular fever but she has n't and er , so Sue said to her well are you looking after yourself and she said yes I am , Sue said well I du n no she never seems to be , cos she 's never been well has she really ? |
28 | Not that she had many choices . |
29 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
30 | He made sure that she had ample money . |