Example sentences of "[conj] she had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay gripped , burrowed her head in Lucy 's belly : here so safe and wanted inside her beloved Jeremy had grown ; her brow nudged Lucy 's breasts , where Jeremy had sucked himself full and strong , where she had found a contentment warm as summer wind across white sands ; here she had swum easy as a seal , crystal seas halcyon over her head . |
| 2 | that at the time of the loss or damage he or she had taken a room at the inn ; and |
| 3 | However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June . |
| 4 | Although she had become a native of the boats , and pitied the tideless and ratless life of the Chelsea inhabitants , she respected the water and knew that one could die within sight of the Embankment . |
| 5 | He was such a dear old thing , although she had heard a rumour about him and Sylvia . |
| 6 | Fortunately , she was a feminist and seldom asked for extra money , since she would consider that degrading , although she had accepted a house and school fees . |
| 7 | Although she had mentioned a man named Clive . |
| 8 | Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . |
| 9 | Penelope wished now that she had worn a dress or suit instead of the elegant tartan trews , but they had seemed the only way to make Rupert Stonebird notice her . |
| 10 | ‘ Would n't it be lovely if Terry was one of them ? ’ a colleague said , but Sarah said quietly that she had received a letter from him and knew when he would arrive . |
| 11 | Kit hugged herself with pleasure at the thought that she had raised a son who would be an engineer . |
| 12 | Down on the steps , Marie had decided that she had made a mistake . |
| 13 | She was beginning to feel that she had made a mistake , and allowed herself to be exploited . |
| 14 | I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too . |
| 15 | She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning . |
| 16 | A girl lunged over the grid , screaming that she had made a mistake , fingers just missing the disappearing chips . |
| 17 | But Albert was so sure that she had made a Will … |
| 18 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
| 19 | And , although she was rapidly coming to the conclusion that she had made a fool of herself all down the line , she still did n't quite know how . |
| 20 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 21 | No doubt he exaggerated ( such was his wont where his conscience was concerned ) ; yet the only news she had received from Em herself had not been happy ; and now — to learn that she had suffered a miscarriage in that desert place at such a time of year , and that she had not felt able to share the grief of it with her own affectionate sister … |
| 22 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 23 | Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind . |
| 24 | These words are well past her point of failure in the Schonell Test ( that is , ten consecutive errors ) , and so it is possible that she had reached a level of frustration : feeling that all the words were too difficult she ceased to think carefully about whether what she was writing down was likely , and simply put down anything that came to mind . |
| 25 | It was true that she had missed a period , but that could mean anything or nothing . |
| 26 | It seemed that she had had a row with her man and that he had left . |
| 27 | June Rogers reported that she had had a meeting with parents interested in improving the play area at the Sun Hill recreation ground . |
| 28 | In a £500,000 damages action at the Court of Session , she had said that she had had a collapse after being injected with anaesthetic drugs in the operating theatre . |
| 29 | She had been studying for her A levels however when , after discovering that she had smuggled a pining and off-his-food spaniel up to her bedroom to sleep one night , her father had put some of her own recent doubts into words . |
| 30 | The room was very dim , he saw that she had suspended a shawl over the light , so that it shone dappled on walls and ceiling above . |