Example sentences of "that she had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If he had guessed that she had prior knowledge , he was not prepared to say so . |
2 | Sally found that she had good abilities in this area . |
3 | I was moved to see that she had absolute faith in my goodwill , for she took the bag without glancing at the contents . |
4 | His voice sounded so matter-of-fact that she had little difficulty in ignoring the more flattering words . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Just before leaving the consulting room she knew that she had one thing left to do and it was important . |
8 | He noticed that she had one button of her blouse more than usual undone . |
9 | Rosie said , ‘ Er — um — ’ and Shelley guessed that she had other plans for Saturday . |
10 | How dared he think it , let alone say it , that she had other men to settle her bills ? |
11 | 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 . |
12 | She boasted that she had two bedrooms and a bathroom , which had been constructed from a third bedroom . |
13 | 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 ? |
14 | Not that she had many choices . |
15 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
16 | He made sure that she had ample money . |
17 | The tests showed that she had inoperable lung cancer . |
18 | Shortly before he died , Mary had noticed that she had great difficulty swallowing food , had gone to her doctor and he had organized X-rays and tests at the local hospital . |
19 | Jo loathed her blobby nose , her receding chin , her long body , her short legs , her droopy ass , her fat thighs , her white skin that absolutely refused to tan and her brown hair which frizzed and which her mother would n't even let her frost ; she accepted that she would never look like Faye Dunaway , never be a Prom Queen and that most of her body was a total disaster area , but she knew with absolute certainty that she had great tits . |
20 | Once or twice people put their heads round the door and asked her if the Meditation proof was up yet , or whether she knew ‘ that she had four inches less than usual on page twelve . |
21 | She took out her wallet and found that she had six pounds and ten shillings which she placed on the chair by his bed ; ‘ Will that be enough to be going on with ? ’ she asked . |
22 | After the Act she might have believed that she had reasonable grounds for making her demand and that her threat was a proper means of reinforcing the demand . |
23 | She had not troubled to dress , despite , or perhaps because of , the fact that she had male visitors . |
24 | Her mother was surprised that Sarah was not with her but Anne explained that she had important work to finish . |
25 | For an hour or so Fabia wandered around the area which the dramatist Goethe had once called ‘ a paradise on earth ’ , and began to wish that she had more holiday than she had in which to explore more fully . |
26 | Although Anne Boleyn gave birth to Princess Elizabeth at Greenwich , in September 1533 , there was no son forthcoming and Henry VIII became convinced that she had another lover , so he had her beheaded on 19th . |
27 | And erm , it s it seems to be an entirely er rational position for any public politician , for instance , Mrs Thatcher before the seventy-nine election , denying that she had any plans to double V A T , or Mr Major denying some of the plans for raising taxes that we 've come up with , or indeed denying plans to privatise the forestry commission . |
28 | He did n't mind telling her in no uncertain terms to keep her distance from him , not that she had any inclination to do anything else , but obviously felt no compulsion to obey those rules when applied to himself . |
29 | She was trying hard to deny to herself that she had any feelings for him . |
30 | This was no credit to her own piety — but what was the use of pretending that she had any piety left ? |