Example sentences of "had [verb] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bath had invigorated her , and she got into bed in better spirits , and opened Gay 's letter , anticipating a good laugh . |
| 2 | She was courteous and obliging to all , chearful , good-natured , and contented in the Station of Life in which Providence had placed her . |
| 3 | She was , in other words , a genuine believer in the ideals of enlightened government ( perhaps a more sincere one than the king of Prussia ) ; but her application of these ideals was limited to some extent by her personal weaknesses and far more by the demands and pressures of the situation in which history had placed her . |
| 4 | Ironically it seemed now that flight had placed her in far greater danger than staying put could ever have done . |
| 5 | Suu Kyi had led the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) to a landslide election victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ] , but the country 's ruling military junta , the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , which had placed her under house arrest in mid-1989 , prevented the party from forming a government . |
| 6 | She showed me the marks on the back of her knuckles and her wrist where that bitch had walloped her with a rod of some sort , right from the first day . ’ |
| 7 | The long journey across , the shock of realising that she would have to share the house with a complete stranger , and a highly undesirable one at that , had disorientated her . |
| 8 | The excitement of this first fall of rain had filled her with a desire that things should be different , that she should be happy again . |
| 9 | Her feelings on that day had been so overpowering , had filled her with such sharp pleasure that always she hoped that their ghosts must still be lingering among the leaves . |
| 10 | She 'd felt a warmth go through her , as though he 'd reached out and touched her , an imaginary touch that had filled her with excitement . |
| 11 | Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away . |
| 12 | It had sustained her . |
| 13 | And the anger which had sustained her now evaporated , slipped out of her and away , leaving her defeated , used , worn out , unutterably forlorn . |
| 14 | Was it one of the reasons Sylvie had hated her ? |
| 15 | He had hated her , and subconsciously she must always have known . |
| 16 | Someone had hated her enough to … |
| 17 | Had hated her at sight . |
| 18 | From the day Paige had gone to live with her aunt and uncle , when her own parents had died , Lori had hated her . |
| 19 | They had given their only child the benefit of the doubt , but Paige had known , and Lori had hated her for knowing — and for not telling tales . |
| 20 | No one had guessed she was anything but a boy . |
| 21 | Luke made a non-committal noise , and suddenly Merrill had the impression that he had guessed she would be here with Rob . |
| 22 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 23 | He had dismissed her , then . |
| 24 | He had dismissed her from his mind as he would swat away a troublesome fly . |
| 25 | He had dismissed her . |
| 26 | Clearly the previous secretary had not been a very efficient worker — perhaps that was why Ven had dismissed her . |
| 27 | When she had protested to Lord Wardley , who was chief billeting officer for that part of Northumberland , he had referred her to a minion who , in turn , had taken great pleasure in pointing out that she could , if she preferred , have some evacuees from Gateshead but , either way , her spare room could not remain empty when everyone was required to make a war effort . |
| 28 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |
| 29 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 30 | It kept her going , especially when she was angling for the notice of the one man who , after giving her dinner on the way back from Bovington , had treated her with only a lighthearted pleasant banter whenever they met . |