Example sentences of "she had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm glad she had the presence of mind to help you . |
| 2 | She touched his shoulder as she had the day before . |
| 3 | She with , it 's true , Janey 's help , cooked , served , washed up , cleaned , drove us here , there and everywhere , the doctor , school , the dentist , up to London for nerve-racking bouts of clothes shopping , she had the Nigels to stay , and laughed at the J ills at the garage and I 'd 've died if she 'd found out about Paul . |
| 4 | She livened things up considerably , but then she had the most interesting part — by turns urgent , sinister and weird , against the clarinet 's rather bland melodiousness and the pianist 's all-purpose provision of harmony and counterpoint . |
| 5 | She had the same kind of eyes , a real pinned kind of look . |
| 6 | She was flying , just within the still pocket of air , but enough to know that she had the power . |
| 7 | And at the same moment she had the shattering thought that perhaps she had imagined the whole thing . |
| 8 | Although she had never had any secretarial training , she had the nerve to apply for one of the most eagerly sought-after positions in Europe . |
| 9 | She had the same colour hair , all yellow and curly , and she walked in just the same way , sort of little bouncing steps . |
| 10 | She had never been pushed academically , although there is no doubt she had the intelligence to have done far better than she ever did . |
| 11 | Controversy may have raged round the royal head of Marina Ogilvy but she had the good sense to choose a dress she could wear after her baby was born |
| 12 | She had the majority support of her staff , but decided to leave , to ensure that the position of her husband Jose Azeredo Perdigao would not be jeopardised as the Foundation 's director . |
| 13 | Any fool can buy a blue-chip index ; Aunt Agatha could do it for herself , if she had the money and a stockbroker . |
| 14 | She had the feeling that it wanted to reach some sort of understanding with her , to tell her something in its rough , mute animal way . |
| 15 | By the time Christopher had peeled all the apples , she had the oven heating and the pastry rolled . |
| 16 | She had the unusual skill of being able to pull the end down like a tapir when she was angry . |
| 17 | She had the cheek to think he might come to Brighton to see her . |
| 18 | She looked all set to be a book-a-year person once she had the initial break . |
| 19 | She had the cheek to say that she felt his wife would n't like it . |
| 20 | She had the cheek to say he ought to cancel meetings only because of ill-health or for work opportunities , not because he 'd decided to go out with someone else . |
| 21 | She looked like a beautiful young girl , but she had the hardness of an old woman . |
| 22 | Now that she had the money she needed , she was singing happily . |
| 23 | Even when she had the picture in front of her , she seemed only to see the flat bloodless paper . |
| 24 | She had the countrywoman 's natural , in-built knowledge , also its little boasts : Our relations will be eating their peas next Sunday . ’ |
| 25 | Moreover she had the real comfort of knowing that her community appreciated what she was doing ; more , her life excited such admiration that after her death the interment had to be delayed for some days for fear of riots . |
| 26 | She had the same blank , anxious expression as some zoo animals have . |
| 27 | She was waiting , she says , until she was sure she had the right project with the right people . |
| 28 | She had the same smouldering eyes and pouting lips , the same tiny waist and big swelling breasts . |
| 29 | This time , she was wearing a hat , which pulled her face back , somehow , and made a line round it , so that she looked older than she had the other night . |
| 30 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |