Example sentences of "[Wh det] she had [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had thrown up some very challenging cross-references in its time , and she was at the moment pursuing a connection between the nature of quattrocento pigmentation and lichenology as a method of dating the antiquity of landscape : a gratifyingly pointless and therefore pure pursuit , which enabled her mind to wander in the direction of Italy and to hover about the abstraction of a particular shade of green-blue which she had noted in many a painted Italian scene as well as in the lichens of ancient English woodland . |
| 2 | Soon after their marriage , Margaret 's depression , which she had suffered for some time , immediately lifted . |
| 3 | Her ball gown was an old grey dress which she had prettified with some lengths of Brussels lace . |
| 4 | Mr Dakin burst out , but the old cow brushed past us and marched without hesitation into the stall which she had occupied for all those years . |
| 5 | From some dim recess of her mind came the words of a Breton fisherman 's prayer , which she had read in some book . |
| 6 | ‘ Doreen Banks may have been murdered for what she had recorded on this , ’ he began . |
| 7 | She had , and she felt slightly uneasy about admitting it , she had sought the smartly intense , at the expense of the more solid and dowdy virtues ; she had been attracted by surfaces , by clothes and manners and voices and trivial strange graces , and she had imitated what she had seen of these things in others . |
| 8 | What she had now was twice what she had suffered before this — a love so very agonising , a love without hope because someone else had the right and the claim to him now and that was why he had kissed her that way — to let her know how hopeless it all was . |
| 9 | Although just what she had done with all her unencumbered time since he 'd moved the rest of them to Almsmead , other than take an excessive interest in the mill-school he 'd had to build to keep on the right side of that damned , interfering Factory Act , he was uncertain . |
| 10 | She was a bonny young 'un , right enough , and from a bonny mother , from what she had glimpsed of that lass as she skidded down the road with the polis after her . |
| 11 | Ruth did n't follow straight away ; she stood folding her napkin absently and staring down at it and wondering what she had learnt from that . |
| 12 | Evil places were said to retain an aura of Evil and , from what she had learned of this place from Mahoney , if ever that aura was present then it would dwell easily here . |