Example sentences of "that she had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ladies ’ verse' became a phrase of scorn ; anthologies ceased to include any , readers forgot its existence , and Elizabeth Barrett Browning was able to complain that she had no poetic grandmothers . |
| 2 | She was only half aware that Rachel was heavily subsidising her rent , because she was living in a part of London and a sort of house so different from her friends that she had no easy comparisons . |
| 3 | The Galiaras were told that all the trouble was caused by the fact that she had no entry certificate , but that does not explain the inhuman treatment she received . |
| 4 | The adjudicator concluded that Mr Hussain 's application was for a short-term stay and dismissed the appeal after hearing evidence from Miss Rafique that she had no intention of living in Pakistan . |
| 5 | Did she not understand that she had no need to fight me , to defend herself from me ? |
| 6 | ‘ This woman , ’ the judge would say , ‘ is so depraved , so much the slave of her own passions , that she had no hesitation in bludgeoning to death the father of her child on Christmas Eve . ’ |
| 7 | She could feel Jackie watching her as she took a step forward , but she resisted the temptation to glance back , thrusting herself away from him , one step after another , angrily trying to justify her uncharacteristic behaviour and telling herself that she had no need to justify it . |
| 8 | When a girl whom I knew only as Meriel remarked , as we were washing up the cocoa-cups , that she was ‘ brought up in a bog ’ , and I commented naïvely that she had no trace of Irish accent , the unassuming daughter of the Earl of Meath merely smiled . |
| 9 | He asked to see Laura , but was told that she had no wish to see him . |
| 10 | Susan said that she had no intention of letting him into her life ; she did not trust him or his relationships with women , ‘ from what I observed of him , and I do n't think he felt very secure with me because of my straightforwardness ’ . |
| 11 | Lack of eye contact from his mother when he was talking about his day gave John Grant the firm message that she had no interest . |
| 12 | I was surprised , for I knew that she had no relatives in England at all . |
| 13 | I am afraid that she had no success with me but I remember our chanting of ‘ Rowned and rowned — up and dowwnn — rowned and rowned . ’ |
| 14 | She looked at Gay , who was an only child too , but who had nobody to give her a good time , and then her glance travelled to Breeze , who had just admitted in her light-hearted fashion that she had no idea of what the future would hold for her . |
| 15 | He had let himself fall in with her will , and had not seen that she had no will , but was calling , alone , for a friend . |
| 16 | After the cottage had been bought the Canadian 's wife had heard graphic accounts of spilt brains and blood-spattered walls and had declared that she had no intention of living there in summer or at any other time . |
| 17 | But surely the woman could see that she had no future with Alex . |
| 18 | In answer to Tamar 's claims that she had no clothes suitable for a visit to the capital , Stephen persuaded her to wait until they arrived and then she would be able to buy something . |
| 19 | After a couple of false starts , Maxine was actually able to relax relatively well and she found that she had no problems about imagining a pleasant scene in her mind provided the visualization was guided by me . |
| 20 | In some ways she was happy that she had no conscious memory of the details , but unless she was able to recall them she knew that there would be no case for the young man to answer and he would go free . |
| 21 | She grew up believing that she had no right to be alive , let alone deserved any happiness . |
| 22 | ‘ Because he believed that Charles just is n't going to make it — and the sovereign 's relationship with her heir has always been difficult — Prince Philip urged her to assert that she had no intention of stepping down from the throne , that she must and will remain for the duration . ’ |
| 23 | They have allegedly been swayed by news that Tyson 's accuser , beauty queen Desiree Washington , is negotiating book and film deals having previously stated that she had no plans to make money out of her experience . |
| 24 | A policeman assured her that she had no need to worry as her husband would soon be home as would the others . |
| 25 | It was due to take place the last week in August and Mrs Bennett who , since the death of her husband , had lived with her married daughter , had promised to ‘ see it through ’ , as she put it ; but she had also made it quite clear that she had no desire to stay on permanently , as Celia had hoped . |
| 26 | Isobel sighed , remembering many an argument on child care which she had lost , being invariably defeated by the rejoinder that she had no children and , therefore , knew nothing about them . |
| 27 | She could quite happily spend a few days here , just remembering her own childhood : the train set , the beautifully designed doll 's house , the football game … it made her sad that she had no children of her own so that she could cling on to that childhood that she so often missed . |
| 28 | In the second place , it is clear that she had no idea what effect her remark would or could have had on me . |
| 29 | She knew that she had no reason to feel ashamed . |
| 30 | So what was stopping him from going to her and telling her that she had no need to worry ? |