Example sentences of "[that] she had [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to admit , however , that the main reason that she had phoned the Symses and answered their appeal so promptly was that it took her out of the house , and away from the strain of being with Mark in public while the incident of the night before still divided them . |
| 2 | I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully . |
| 3 | Fei Yen had looked up briefly , only to avert her eyes again , but it was clear from her smile that she had heard the story often and was not displeased by it . |
| 4 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 5 | ‘ Or someone like her , ’ Belinda stressed , not wanting him to guess that she had noticed the brunette 's special interest in him . |
| 6 | When she had graduated from the School of Fashion she had sold her entire degree collection to Lady Jane , a small but exclusive West End boutique , who had greeted her designs with such enthusiasm that she had believed the world was her oyster and everything was about to happen for her . |
| 7 | Moreover , now that she had achieved the heart 's desire for which she had turned on her shameless , neurotic display , she had become dejected , and walked along meekly , head and tail hanging . |
| 8 | One suffragette , Rosa Lamartine Yates , recounted that she had witnessed the double-standard in action while standing bail for two women at the west London police court . |
| 9 | I got my staff to check on the Charlotte T. , and found that she had sailed the day after Andrew Stavanger wrote his letter . |
| 10 | She told the National Enquirer that she had met the prince just months before the Duchess of York was snapped in intimate poses in the South of France with American financial adviser John Bryan , 37 . |
| 11 | How unlucky that she had met the sons and not the father ! |
| 12 | She was in love with Piers , and , now that she had accepted the agony of knowing that her love was n't returned , maybe she could fight for him , could fight to win his heart , because it was silly to assume that he had some sort of woman in his life simply because the astrologer , a girl hardly older than herself , had implied as much . |
| 13 | When she put them down , I could see that she had accepted the truth . |
| 14 | Treitel ( 8th ed. ) , p. 87 says of Ward v. Byham : ‘ One basis of the decision is that the mother had provided consideration by showing that she had made the child happy , etc. : in this way she can be said to have conferred a factual benefit on the father , even though she may not have suffered any detriment . ’ |
| 15 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |
| 16 | It was in memory of those days that she had given The Bar its first and now largely forgotten name , Babylon . |
| 17 | Her description was so detailed and precise that experts agreed that she had seen the eagle . |
| 18 | As well as that , how could she admit to Bella that she had seen the money hidden in the drawer ? |
| 19 | It would be a few hours before she could face Marguerite , and no doubt the girl , Marie , would be very quick to tell Alain 's mother that she had seen the Englishwoman wandering into the woods like a lunatic . |
| 20 | It must have been a day or two afterwards that she had seen the picture . |
| 21 | She said that she had visited the Forestry Commission 's premises earlier in the year , and had found them ‘ completely acceptable ’ as a polling station . |
| 22 | She nodded shakily , feeling cold now that she had lost the warmth of his body . |
| 23 | But her own internal stresses — her anxiety over Between the Acts which she had just finished , and the fear that she had lost the power to write — closed in on her as that unmitigable depression , her companion of old , took final hold . |
| 24 | He had thought that he had done with her long ago , had assumed that she had lost the power to hurt him . |
| 25 | It was clear to Ruth that she had plumbed the depths of depravity . |
| 26 | What did break her heart , though , were the accusations that she had ruined the interior of one of England 's most distinguished houses . |
| 27 | It was not , of course , the first time that she had exercised the powers of Regent , but on this particular occasion she knew that she would have to deal with a new constitutional structure in which it was envisaged that she would merely be informed by the Ministers and would take no decisions on her own . |
| 28 | She told Alexander Atkins that she had missed the train after leaving her Glasgow school friend . |
| 29 | By the time that she had balanced the tray on a small table , the silver teapot carefully placed where Matey could preside over it , Mrs Darrell had embarked on an attack on Dr Neil and the profession which he had taken up . |
| 30 | It bore its load of textbooks incongruously , and a typewriter that a parishioner had given Anna , a weekender who worked on a London newspaper , and who had sworn , positively , that she had outgrown the thing , did n't need it . |