Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She closed her eyes , leaning back against her remaining pillow as she tried to recall that aspect of her childhood . |
| 2 | She could not tell the human who she was , but she remembered the feeling of affinity ; she tried to indicate that affinity , a finger pointed to holly and to human flesh , but the blank look remained in that fur-wrapped , pale-faced Tallis . |
| 3 | Deliberately she thought of the conversation she 'd overheard that morning . |
| 4 | But assumptions , as she 'd discovered that day , could be dangerous , and Isabelle had never actually stated where she was born . |
| 5 | His words went straight to her heart , and she remembered the private wish she 'd made that day , that Nicolo would tell her he loved her . |
| 6 | Only a few hours later and Fabia was wishing with all she had that she had touched wood when she 'd made that statement . |
| 7 | It was n't the first time she 'd heard that kind of comment . |
| 8 | The cab drove slowly away through the bleak night while Meredith sat without moving , painfully remembering where she 'd heard that phrase before : ‘ Beggar myself ’ . |
| 9 | She 'd been so busy with her own thoughts she 'd forgotten that side of things . |
| 10 | And she 'd had an abortion the night before and she 'd died that day on the Monday . |
| 11 | If she 'd left that house three years ago it would n't have happened . |
| 12 | From that time on , she began to avoid that gesture ( it is not easy to break the habit of gestures altogether ) . |
| 13 | Everything in Fabia cried out as she started to panic that Ven might yet hit on the truth of her love for him . |
| 14 | We invited Debbie to join us but she 'd had an invitation from a girlfriend to spend Christmas in Norway and she decided to take that invitation up . |
| 15 | Perhaps she did buy that picture because it is concerned with loneliness , with " the contemplation of time passing without meaning " , " 1 and moved then , momentarily , hesitantly , towards all the other lost travellers . |
| 16 | According to Aubrey , Madeleine was still unattached , even if she did have that army officer dancing attendance on her . |
| 17 | She did have that allergy in her eyes . |
| 18 | She 'd rather be seen as hopelessly naïve , and she voiced her feelings , suddenly not caring if she did seem that way . |
| 19 | right , she did take that book with her , did n't she ? |
| 20 | What added considerably to this worried mother 's concern was a letter she had received that morning . |
| 21 | White and anxious , she said : Yes , she had given that bag to her daughter , and it had contained such chocolates . |
| 22 | And she knew that she had seen that expression before , and very recently . |
| 23 | She had seen that look of appraisal in men 's eyes before . |
| 24 | Robyn got out of the car and looked through railings across the car park to a brick office block and a tall windowless building behind it , a prospect almost as depressing as the prison she had seen that morning . |
| 25 | Not that she had dressed that way especially for him , she hastily denied . |
| 26 | While we were bad off she had to take that job , my eldest daughter . |
| 27 | Now she had to let that night , her feelings , her certainties about his feelings , her inflamed stirrings of the senses — all be lapped away . |
| 28 | And it was then she had decided that war work or not , her daughter 's excursions with convalescent wounded must stop at once . |
| 29 | She was in flight from it — as she had imagined that woman in the rain in flight . |
| 30 | They were singing ‘ Forty Years On ’ as a duet , which surprised her so much that she stepped backwards and trod on the toe of the cross young man with whom she had collided that afternoon . |