Example sentences of "that she [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had told him that Brenda was obsessively vegetarian , and that she longed for red meat : would he take her out ? |
| 2 | Now that she knew for certain that she could n't marry him , her first impulse was to call him up and tell him so . |
| 3 | What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum . |
| 4 | The inquest heard that she died from multiple injuries . |
| 5 | She was so furious that she drove with exaggerated care back to Kalkara , in case she crashed into someone in her distracted state . |
| 6 | It roused her violently by its unexpectedness , and she made no protest when his arms went round her and he kissed her with a force and a recklessness that she met with equal need . |
| 7 | She liked her guests to see and hear the efficient way that she dealt with difficult situations . |
| 8 | Did you know that she dealt in stolen goods , arranged thefts and then fenced the goods , did you know she arranged insurance for many of the smaller shopkeepers — her kind of insurance ? |
| 9 | Even though the table excludes those unable to give an appropriate answer on both occasions the answers which were given could mean a variety of different things ; for example , that the respondent really was feeling worried when she said so , or that she thought ‘ worried ’ meant something else , or that she thought the answer meant something else , or that she answered at random . |
| 10 | The very fact that terms like ‘ dissenter ’ and ‘ nonconformist ’ made no sense in America shows the attraction that she held for English Nonconformists : America to them was what England might become . |
| 11 | The court was told that she dabbled in black magic and tried summoning messages from the spirit world by using a ouija board . |