Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered from time to time what sort of a life she led in that remote cottage with her writer friend , how far it had satisfied her . |
| 2 | She belonged to that great majority of intelligent human beings who think of a book as something with which to beguile the hours of solitude of an evening . |
| 3 | She 's got all these photos she took with that new camera — all jumbled up in an envelope — and she was saying she ought to put them into something . |
| 4 | ‘ Such a pity she took to that unfortunate boy Saul Quatt , instead of that good-looking young officer that was quartered here that year . ’ |
| 5 | She thought of that small compact body with absolute hatred . |
| 6 | She thought of that queer white face she had seen , and a little shudder passed through her . |
| 7 | She could of course , she thought with that sudden burst of adolescent enthusiasm , not live . |
| 8 | She stared into that tough face and her first thought was , Do you ? |
| 9 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 10 | It was odd , she thought , how if one was alone , one leant to things , inanimate things ; trees , streams , flowers ; felt they expressed one ; felt they became one ; felt they knew one , in a sense were one ; felt an irrational tenderness thus ( she looked at that long steady light ) as for oneself' . |
| 11 | She looked at that lean , dark face , so like Michele 's , and wondered what had disturbed her . |
| 12 | Did you see you with that gas that advert she did with that poor woman ! |
| 13 | She ran for her life , never seeing the figure detach itself from the wall , as she did in that far off childhood nightmare . |
| 14 | She had on that special queasy-bright look women like her put on for girls of my age . |
| 15 | Renewed tears flowing , dirty hands in dirty pockets , she ran from that terrible , disloyal little hen — ran as fast as she could to find Anderson , with his promise of comfort and sound advice . |
| 16 | Like she said to that new girl take your time learn it , get to know it properly she said you learn what was it ? |
| 17 | She suggested in that shoddy little newspaper interview that I 'd broken up her marriage … but let's not talk of it , Gregory , please . |