Example sentences of "that she [vb past] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't know what she had meant , only that she felt an uncontrollable urge to thwart him . |
| 2 | He gave her a look of such hatred that she took an involuntary step backwards . |
| 3 | She says that she saw an ad in a newspaper . |
| 4 | On the plane to London , Adam had said that Clare still refused to see her ; he had hinted that she expected an apology . |
| 5 | Diana 's first public engagement as Princess of Wales was , appropriately , a tour of the principality , and it was obvious from the very first day that she had an extraordinary talent . |
| 6 | He discovered that she had an IQ of genius level and announced that she needed firm discipline and intellectual stimulation . |
| 7 | She also realised that she had an advantage over her mother 's generation because she had worked , and was more inclined to go out and do things in her retirement . |
| 8 | She alleged , too , that she had an illegal relationship with her mother . |
| 9 | She felt as if she were back in a milieu which she understood , that she had an indefinable rapport with this tall , shaggy , rather solitary figure , dressed in jeans and an open-necked shirt and , as she had just observed , running-shoes . |
| 10 | For the first time Janine felt that she had an ally , and it made all the difference to her . |
| 11 | In these circumstances it is necessary to ask whether the bank took reasonable steps to try and ensure that she had an adequate comprehension of the effect of the charge . |
| 12 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |
| 13 | It was only after she had fainted at tennis that her father took her to a specialist who found that she had an extra vertebra . |
| 14 | I once heard Dr Starkie lecture , and I 'm glad to report that she had an atrocious French accent ; one of those deliveries full of dame-school confidence and absolutely no ear , swerving between workaday correctness and farcical error , often within the same word . |
| 15 | That she had an old Tom , Mary and Tom . |
| 16 | Sally-Anne had finished putting her things down , and was feeling enormously hungry as well as thirsty — Papa had once said that she had an appetite as indecent as his own , and the wonder was that neither of them ever put any weight on ! |
| 17 | At this point she was aware that she had an audience . |
| 18 | Then he actually made a paper aeroplane so that she had an example in front of her that she can look at to see what she is aiming for . |
| 19 | Now , at the age of twenty-six , she travelled widely , searching out hidden gems , secure in the knowledge that she had an outlet for them with the clientele she had built up . |
| 20 | No , what she found so overwhelmingly infuriating was that when he had enquired tactfully , some might say , whether she was tired , he clearly had been expecting her to say a polite ‘ yes ’ so that he could then suggest that she had an early night . |
| 21 | The most astonishing aspect of the case was not that she had an understandable desire to disport herself in space , but that under the law as it stands a major general had to offer her an abject apology for the recruiting sergeant showing a welcome piece of common sense . |
| 22 | She too was saying that she had an urge to go down with her broom and sweep up the these building works . |
| 23 | Showing the Princess in conference with one of her dress designers did nothing to allay the view that she spent an inordinate amount of money on clothes ; and broadcasting the Prince 's remark that he talked to the flowers in his garden was a bad mistake . |
| 24 | But more astute moves made even before she had established herself as a world star had guaranteed that she collected an above average share of the money her records were making . |