Example sentences of "[adv] she had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she had allowed a horror of Morpurgo 's appearance to bias her judgement . |
| 2 | She had told him then that her body was all she had to offer a man . |
| 3 | With the power of her eyes alone she had compelled a glass of water to tip and spill its contents over the horrible Headmistress , and anybody who could do that could do anything . |
| 4 | What I did n't know was that a few months before we started to work together she had written a proposal to the Thai government to start a ‘ machine knitting project ’ in one of her districts . |
| 5 | It seemed that she had been here years , and already she had driven a wedge between her and Ben . |
| 6 | Almost the first time ever she had volunteered a greeting . |
| 7 | An hour later she had ordered a taxi and Paige had waved her goodbye in some bemusement . |
| 8 | Now she had become a pensioner she had been able to give up work as a midwife , and she spent much of her time on her allotment : |
| 9 | Now she had developed a self-assurance and experience which allowed her to perform on the public stage . |
| 10 | She reached to the gap between back and seat where years ago she had stuffed a cushion that made all the difference to that small problem with her spine . |
| 11 | She would take a few drops directly into the mouth using the pipette whereas previously she had used a teaspoon direct from the 100ml bottle . |
| 12 | Some twenty years previously she had produced a son , who was prematurely middle-aged , bald and overweight . |