Example sentences of "[Wh det] she [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just says to Mrs Sneddon that she needed a new battery for her hearing aid and that a daimen-icker in a thrave didny mean whit she thought it did ! |
| 2 | They had recently watched an old Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film on the television in which she thought she saw the source of his fantasy . |
| 3 | The feel of him , the taste of him , was like a drug , one which she believed she had kicked , but which , she was now discovering , continued to exert a ruthless grip . |
| 4 | It was as if he were a sheet of paper torn into many little pieces which she felt she had to cover entirely with her hand , but could not , however hard she tried , because the wind always blew a few of the pieces from between her fingers or from the edge of her palm . |
| 5 | There was a touch of desperation in her reply which she knew he heard , but surprisingly he made no attempt to mock her , or force her into giving him any more reasons . |
| 6 | That 's torn it , thought Lydia , swallowing the smile , extinguishing the sexuality which she knew she had caused to flicker about her like burning brandy round the Christmas pudding , and adopting instead a workmanlike , country-walking air . |
| 7 | Her mother had a genuine affection for humanity in the mass , which she knew she lacked . |
| 8 | The aspirin bottle was empty , as was the silver-papered , singly wrapped , Panadol square that usually held twelve tablets , but in which she knew there had been only three , for she herself had taken two that afternoon . |
| 9 | At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share . |
| 10 | Her government began with a huge surrender , the quite unexpected settlement in which she acquiesced which ended the long-running saga of British relations with the former Southern Rhodesia , now renamed Zimbabwe . |
| 11 | There was no sign of her raft , the line of which she realised she had cut . |
| 12 | I had a letter from her this morning in which she said she had a bronchial chill and hoped that I fared better . |
| 13 | Sophie Swales was found to have in her possession 1s.1d and Jane Lawrence 3d. , which she said she had borrowed from Sophie Swales . |
| 14 | They found Bowler screaming she had stabbed her husband and produced a knife from the kitchen which she said she had used . |
| 15 | Her racially prejudiced views did n't help the matter , but it was what she was thinking rather than what she said which added flame to the fire of her anger . |
| 16 | She then told me what she said she had already told the police and that there was no harm in telling me , to wit that Froggy had given her nearly two thousand quid to do up the kitchen and bathroom . ’ |
| 17 | What she said she did with her tutors at crisis times was not deliberately engineer tears , which is quite a difficult thing to do , but not hold them back . |
| 18 | Even now she felt sorry for him , unable to fix at the front of her mind the full extent of what she believed he had done . |
| 19 | Had he said what she thought he 'd said ? |
| 20 | At least that was what she thought he said , but she could n't be absolutely sure as he turned on his heel and walked away , leaving her standing in the darkness of her cabin . |
| 21 | Because what she thought she felt was what she actually did feel and she said it , loud and clear and everyone else could go and fuck themselves . |
| 22 | Penny says a close friend recently asked her to sum up what she thought she 'd done for the Princess of Wales . |
| 23 | But she would n't tell anyone what she thought she 'd seen , least of all Alan . |
| 24 | Melanie wondered what she thought she had said . |
| 25 | Joanne sensed that this was not quite true as she was aware that there were children within her classes who had not learned what she thought she had taught them . |
| 26 | Show her what she thought she wanted . |
| 27 | ‘ Sláinte , ’ she echoed , and hoped it meant what she thought it meant . |
| 28 | It is hard to imagine the glamorous Deborah Moggach impersonating a decrepit roué , but that is what she says she did while writing The Ex-Wives ( £14.99 ) , coming from Heinemann on 29th April . |
| 29 | ‘ I can see it upsets you , ’ he said softly , and she was afraid to look at him , afraid to see again what she imagined she 'd seen in his eyes . |
| 30 | Sarah was consciously getting her confidence , telling her what she knew she wanted to hear . |