Example sentences of "[noun sg] she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the dragon had flighted across the market place of Antioch , and Margaret had found herself swept up between the huge teeth , she had laughed like a child at the brief glance she had had of the panic around her ; she had laughed from the pure unexpectedness of her escape and at the terrified way the mighty Olybrius had nearly swallowed his moustaches . |
| 2 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
| 3 | She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas . |
| 4 | But she gripped her hands together to help herself bear the wailing glory of the music which was a lament for all lost and gone , loved things , an expression of a grief she had thought too deep to express . |
| 5 | It was as if in that short distance from the Upper East Side she had crossed a magic dividing line into another country . |
| 6 | Every one of the European allies by whose side she had fought against Nazi Germany for the previous two years was now defeated and occupied . |
| 7 | Boldness was the only card she had . |
| 8 | At the centre of a triangle of twenty-two cards , within a rectilinear arch constructed from the rest , lay the single card she had consciously chosen to represent herself . |
| 9 | Feeling restless once her hair was dried , she donned a shirt and a pair of trousers and nipped down to the foyer to post the card she had written to her parents . |
| 10 | But he had a problem : the card she had so rapidly thrust into his hand was her business card , no home address , just Belmodes , Mouncy Street , which he knew but where he did not want to wait to visit . |
| 11 | Some discernment she had , however , for had she not made most complimentary remarks about his filets de sole Murat ? |
| 12 | She thought of a tired analogy she had often heard , people in a crowded train compared to sardines in a tin . |
| 13 | Of all things most precious to her , it was the wedding ring she had received from Nader . |
| 14 | She felt even worse when she saw Stephen 's girlfriend in church , flourishing the engagement ring she had persuaded him to give her before he left to organise a factory in Newcastle for his firm . |
| 15 | Another example of Portia 's dishonesty is shown when she tests Bassanio with the ring she had just given to him . |
| 16 | When I looked in your bedroom she had him in there with her and he 'd left his camera downstairs . |
| 17 | She ran up the stairs and into the bedroom she had shared with Jack . |
| 18 | Before she knew it Daisy was upstairs in the tidiest bedroom she had ever seen . |
| 19 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 20 | He called to her when she was half-way up the open stairway to the bedroom she had shared with Francis ; Francis 's bedroom . |
| 21 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |
| 22 | Snatching an old raincoat from the hallstand she had plunged out into the rain . |
| 23 | It was the first show of emotion she had made and it did more to make Wexford believe her story than all the documentary evidence she had furnished him with . |
| 24 | ‘ You little slut ! ’ he had said through clenched teeth , his face ugly with fury — and some other emotion she had not then recognized . |
| 25 | And if the only deep emotion she had ever seen in him had been on the day of Ben Braithwaite 's engagement to Magda Tannenbaum , then she felt no right and no reason to be astonished at that . |
| 26 | The only emotion she had ever truly felt for him was love . |
| 27 | It was Paul 's obsessive jealousy which had diseased and finally destroyed her feelings for him , even though it was an emotion she had never fully understood — until now . |
| 28 | Through that illusion she had walked with blessed speed , and out beyond it into a world of other possibilities . |
| 29 | Here on this sea-scoured coast she had at last found a place which she was content to call home . |
| 30 | Perdita listened to her mother grinding gears and going on and on and on about how marvellously Perdita had played and how it had been the proudest moment of her life , and how everyone from Rupert to Brigadier Canford said what a great future she had and Drew this and Drew that . |