Example sentences of "she had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | She had a passion for fine music and fine art . |
| 4 | 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 ) : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had a bath . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had a theory that English men enjoyed sex even less than her male compatriots . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nor did she worry overmuch that she had a reputation for being harder on women officers than men . |
| 13 | A medical report estimated she had a mental age of seven years and nine months . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Indeed , she had a talent for implying that somehow she did not belong to her own Cabinet . |
| 16 | She had a physical resemblance to Ramsey 's dead mother . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Chrissie knew who he was because she had a real background in screaming teeny bop stuff . |
| 19 | She had a clear and frightening premonition that she would not be able to manage it . |
| 20 | The virgin saint was leading the dragon on a slim gold chain across a field of flowers towards a distant and elaborate city ; she had a thin white face and an expression of nonchalance , almost tedium . |
| 21 | In the end she had a divorce because she could n't stand it . |
| 22 | And yet she was in one of the nicest private rooms in the hospital ; she had a telephone and a television ; her nightgown was a silly frou-frou of frills and spilling lace and on her thin fingers the rings — diamonds and sapphires in platinum — rattled as she clasped and unclasped the sheet . |
| 23 | She had a cap on her head too . |
| 24 | She was an heiress and she had a hundred thousand pounds and Mr Vigo wanted money to collect that Chinese stuff . |
| 25 | She had a real good imagination , Annie did . |
| 26 | She had a sudden insight , at once alarming and ludicrous . |
| 27 | She finished her supper of pork and sauerkraut then , as she had a coffee , Herr Nordern joined her and the family and had coffee himself . |
| 28 | She had a wide circle of friends , all from the same social set , ex-public school , most of them with parents living in the country . |
| 29 | Most important of all , she had a healthy sense of humour . |
| 30 | In conjunction with her passion for insects and butterflies , on which she is a leading authority , she had a scheme underway to reintroduce wild flowers to the countryside . |