Example sentences of "and she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The husband of the cleaning woman had been a soldier , and she had said that he had had no choice but to obey his orders to shoot Jews . |
| 2 | Over the years , Anne had put up with an awful lot from me and she had now finally decided she could n't take it any more . |
| 3 | And she had devised a hook for time with Lucy . |
| 4 | And she had laid in Greek brandy and pink champagne for old times ' sake . |
| 5 | The girl tried to say ‘ Yes ’ but her mouth had dried and she had to swallow before the word would come . |
| 6 | And she had so perfected this technique of politely disappearing , that she had to live almost half her life before she came to realize that she had almost disappeared to her own self ! |
| 7 | He had just given her the chocolates and she had kissed him . |
| 8 | Her name was Bessie Braddock and she had publicly refused that year to stay in the headquarters hotel , insisting on going to a boarding house instead . |
| 9 | Then the first ‘ maid ’ they ever had was a girl of 16 called Mollie and she had been deserted by her husband and came to live in the house with three tots . |
| 10 | In one swoop the feeling swallowed her up and she had never got rid of it since . |
| 11 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 12 | She had not travelled for pleasure since she had come home from her long sojourn and she had wiped out of her memory the simple delights of hot sun and cheap wine . |
| 13 | She had thought it would be a pity not to have him around any longer : Rachel and Maggie both liked him and she had not told either of them about his wife . |
| 14 | But St Margaret of Antioch had been swallowed up by a dragon too , and she had climbed out again , fresh and free , to become the matron saint of women in childbirth . |
| 15 | But she had lived with a dragon for over ten years , and she had lived in a house filled with strong women , so she knew that there was something very wrong with that scenario . |
| 16 | There seemed hardly time for anyone to wander off , but wander she had , and she had come to swinging happily on a swing in the park playground . |
| 17 | There was only one big road to cross , but it had a zebra crossing and she had been road-safe at Phoebe 's insistence for years . |
| 18 | And she had leapt . |
| 19 | Then poised above the shining city , among the burning stars , Fenna had paused , dropped one great wing , tilted over , tipped her away from his side and she had flown free . |
| 20 | Maggie needed her , Rachel needed her , and she had no other choice ; passion was not to be part of her calling . |
| 21 | Rose had noticed this and she had put it down to the awe and respect in which the man she so loved was held , and she was loath to see differently now . |
| 22 | Then they took her pay packet away ; they would give her only £5 and she had to go to her sisters and borrow money for her clothes and things . |
| 23 | However Sharda had a close friend who was West Indian and she had discussed with her the reasons why Asian girls were so frequently attacked and bullied : |
| 24 | He had a limited vocabulary and she had stopped telling him not to be blasphemous twenty years ago . |
| 25 | She was an heiress and she had a hundred thousand pounds and Mr Vigo wanted money to collect that Chinese stuff . |
| 26 | Her father was a high official and had taken her with him on a trip to London and she had returned with her hair in orange stripes . |
| 27 | She had walked away from finishing school and she had walked away from Miss Vacani 's ; and her parents had never sought to interfere with her freedom , or impose restrictions on her . |
| 28 | She had been , it seemed , to endless dinners , parties and weddings on her own , she had been spotted at local cinemas with friends , sitting in the stalls alongside ordinary members of the public , and she had been seen on the town , at pop concerts , and in restaurants , with handsome young men . |
| 29 | She said that the baby had suffered a fit , and she had fallen on top of him . |
| 30 | Every man in her vicinity had found himself putting his best foot forward , and she had done wonders for the sartorial standards of the notoriously uncaring C1 division . |