Example sentences of "she had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had prominent teeth and dyed black hair swept back in the style of a souvenir Greek goddess . |
| 2 | For Americans she had scant respect and considered them to be nouveau riche upstarts , not good enough to hold a candle to the real thing . |
| 3 | The man she had spellbound stayed behind ; her enchantments had been pitted against an energetic opponent , who exulted when she left , cursing her as she trudged away pushing a small cart with her possessions . |
| 4 | Stevie might have tended to exaggerate , but although she had rich parents , she worked as a waitress in Los Angeles to support Lindsey , and they roughed it around a bit . |
| 5 | She lived in a big house in what they called the stockbroker belt , she had healthy and good-looking children , they took two holidays every year . |
| 6 | Hers was also a significant name because she had black hair and her disappearance was reported on May 17th . |
| 7 | She had black eyebrows despite the colour of her hair , and a little Roman nose . |
| 8 | She had black hair and great stormy black eyes , and there was gold at her ears and round her neck . |
| 9 | She was an old woman , she wore a red wig , and she had black teeth . |
| 10 | She had black eyes , black brows and a mouth that was a bold slash of dark red against the pale — almost white — matt of her make-up . |
| 11 | She had black hair , too , a sort of spiky cut , but that was the fashion then . |
| 12 | She drifted pleasantly away , finding herself at the theatre with Kate Maybury , but she had black hair and carried a colander , and in the colander lay a tiny baby , but Mrs Maybury would n't let her see it , just told her to watch the show . |
| 13 | Like she had black hair and |
| 14 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 15 | Charles says , with relish : ‘ I do n't know whether a psychologist would say it was the trauma of the divorce but she had real difficulty telling the truth purely because she liked to embellish things . |
| 16 | Slender though she was , she had real stamina . |
| 17 | She had real strength in her . |
| 18 | She had real women friends : pretty , witty women more likely to speculate on a swift method of fermenting potato peel than slaver over wild sorrel . |
| 19 | 'Appen she had better things to do , eh , George ? ’ |
| 20 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 21 | She had better things to do , a world to conquer and so forth , who did he think he was ? — Foreigners can be dogged . |
| 22 | But , she decided , when she got up on Saturday morning , she had better things to do than to let such matters worry her . |
| 23 | With a stuffed-to-capacity briefcase , she had better things to do with her time too , anyway . |
| 24 | She had better legs than Gabriel , and knew it . |
| 25 | It was a shame , too , that , because she had unstrapped it for the evening , her shoulder was already aching . |
| 26 | If he had guessed that she had prior knowledge , he was not prepared to say so . |
| 27 | She had bare shoulders and arms ; a heavy gold and ebony bracelet ; an enormously long necklace of what looked like sapphires , though I presumed they must be paste , or ultramarines . |
| 28 | And I wondered what she had blonde hair for . |
| 29 | The presentation took place in the showroom where she also received a Caithness Crystal glass vase given by her friends in the factory and warehouse with whom she had close links for many years . |
| 30 | But she had nice hair — not so long as Marie 's , but just as shiny . |