Example sentences of "she had [art] " in BNC.

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1 She had wanted to argue the matter out , for she had every next sentence there , in her head , only to be followed like a crochet pattern .
2 Not that she blamed him , she had every sympathy with him .
3 She had every tooth in her head …
4 Agnes noted with alarm that a pink flush was suffusing Dorothy 's face , a sure sign of temper , and really , thought her loyal assistant , she had every right to be cross under the circumstances .
5 She had every reason to be frightened .
6 When Frances arrived at her new home , to be followed weeks later by her children and their nanny , she had every hope that the children would be relatively unaffected by her marital breakdown , especially as Sarah and Jane were away at boarding-school .
7 She had every justification not to lose hope , she reminded herself .
8 ‘ I 'd say she had every reason to be . ’
9 She had to look as if she knew where she was going , move as if she had every right to be there ; one challenge could ruin it all .
10 At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks .
11 And that was ridiculous ; she had every right to be here .
12 The college say they 're distressed by Tracey 's death , she had every reason to anticipate a good degree .
13 I think she had every right to .
14 A campaign begun in 1971 to repeal the ban dating from 1935 culminated in the famous appeal of Mrs McGee to the Supreme Court to declare she had a right to use contraceptives .
15 Hers was on the floor by the bedside table — she 'd probably knocked it off when she had a glass of water , or when she took the veronal . ’
16 She had a passion for fine music and fine art .
17 He told her she had a lovely body and when she went to bed with him , she said ( he 'd find out about it anyway and drop her ) :
18 Dew sat prettily on the roses , and they walked more slowly , Lucy looking at roses , Jay wishing she had a camera , knowing that , whatever else , now she was happy .
19 Making lunch for Lucy and Francis , giving her lifts here and there when her car was off the road , calling her just to see how she was , ordering her home when she looked exhausted , plying her with remedies if she had a cold , rubbing her back if she was tense .
20 She had a bath .
21 Not that Masha was unable to enjoy herself — she had a fine sense of humour and loved to sing , which she could do well , serenading the songs of her homeland — lullabies and airs which still resonate in her son 's head to this day .
22 She had a theory that English men enjoyed sex even less than her male compatriots .
23 The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument .
24 Although last year 's result shocked most people in the sport the British team captain , Ann Jones , claims she was not among them and therefore she had a firm eve-of-play warning for her players .
25 Nor did she worry overmuch that she had a reputation for being harder on women officers than men .
26 A medical report estimated she had a mental age of seven years and nine months .
27 Because of her age , she had a one in 180 chance of carrying a baby with Down 's , yet she was not unusual in deciding against having an amniocentesis .
28 Indeed , she had a talent for implying that somehow she did not belong to her own Cabinet .
29 She had a physical resemblance to Ramsey 's dead mother .
30 What I liked about her was that she charged less in the 6ds than she did in the 1/3s : she had a sliding scale .
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