Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got rid of that nonsense somewhere down the way before she came to me . |
| 2 | There was no gentleness like Lisa 's fierce love ; and she tried to respond to that while another darker voice called her to unconsciousness and silence . |
| 3 | ‘ No … ! ’ she tried to say against that forceful mouth , but he either did n't hear , or did n't want to hear . |
| 4 | She tried to concentrate on that particular pain . |
| 5 | She 'd argued about that , too . |
| 6 | She said she 'd gone after that house but she 's not in the blasted catchment area though ! |
| 7 | Everything seemed to remind her of him : the jade T-shirt which she 'd worn on that happy day they 'd spent on the beach ; a phrase of music on the radio which they 'd listened to together ; and even baking a chocolate cake for the children had almost broken her up when she 'd remembered how much he 'd enjoyed the one she had made in New York . |
| 8 | She 'd heard of that . |
| 9 | She 'd worked on that , rubbing them hard . |
| 10 | She 'd laughed at that and resisted the urge to cuddle him in front of one of ‘ the lads ’ and had gone . |
| 11 | She 'd learned about that back when she was Jessamyn Amanda and nine-year-olds had been worth a gallon of potable water on the streets of the NoGo . |
| 12 | She seemed to think about that for a moment — how sad it had been — and then started to laugh . |
| 13 | Now she began to wonder about that ; it could n't simply be because she 'd disliked him , since she 'd disliked clients before , but that had n't prevented her from giving them the same professional treatment she gave to everyone . |
| 14 | Using her hands she began paddling in that direction . |
| 15 | She loved to play like that , but she 'd have told me in the end , exploding with laughter at my angry duped expression . |
| 16 | ‘ She kept fiddling with that blasted lighter , ’ moaned St Ives . |
| 17 | She kept thinking of that , of their telling Mrs Blakey in the kitchen and Mrs Blakey throwing her head back and laughing . |
| 18 | No doubt that was due to the ticking off she had received from that strict harridan of a teacher at the small private school in Kensington . |
| 19 | One single man lived in lodgings and his landlady was in the habit of putting in a pudding basin the lunch she had prepared for that day , for him to have warmed up on the morrow . |
| 20 | But she looked down through the glass skylight and recognised in Maggie 's cropped hair and long white body the same contours that she had seen in that other virgin warrior whom she had inspired into battle . |
| 21 | She was as much their victim as the naked flesh she had seen in that bleak vision had been victim to the flail . |
| 22 | Alexander Vass was smiling , that smile she had seen before that totally transformed him . |
| 23 | As I hastened to go upstairs , I happened to encounter Miss Kenton in the back corridor — the scene , of course , of our last disagreement — and it was perhaps this unhappy coincidence that encouraged her to maintain the childish behaviour she had adopted on that previous occasion . |
| 24 | When Anne left them she thought of the first time she had stood on that corner saying goodnight to John . |
| 25 | His supporters were also quick to remind others of her opposition to the principle of referenda in 1975 , circulating copies of speeches she had made at that time . |
| 26 | She had to agree with that . |
| 27 | She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat . |
| 28 | She had helped enthusiastically with the costumes , making for Mary a trailing blue robe of cornflower taffeta , her own Cambridge May Ball dress sheared apart at the seams , lending or donating bright belts and beads to deck out the three kings , one of whom wore a peacock-feathered turban made of the shot-silk stole she had worn with that dance dress . |
| 29 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 30 | Although their protection was n't evident Millie was conscious of it , and there were times when she felt as hemmed in as she had done during that tortured year or more when guarded by the sisters . |