Example sentences of "[vb past] she had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men who stopped her had done a lot of talking on their radio before taking her to their police station . |
| 2 | Now it seemed she had found a man she could love , but he was someone else 's husband and her brother was bent on vengeance . |
| 3 | A post mortem examination revealed she had suffered a heart attack at the time of the accident . |
| 4 | When he returned she had cleared a space in the kitchen , had coffee ready . |
| 5 | In a statement , the Department said Mrs McGonagle indicated she had obtained a copy of the specimen paper and made a number of photo-copies . |
| 6 | By the 1970s the business had dwindled to near extinction , before being rescued by a clever and resourceful lady called Sheila Pickles , who bought what remained of the enterprise and discovered she had acquired a wealth of recipes and formulas . |
| 7 | They vowed to sort that out when they next met , and Christina felt she had made a friend and ally in Pauline Bascombe . |
| 8 | She felt she had murdered a friend . |
| 9 | Once Arcady came into sight , Ari felt she had learnt a lot during the past few days , irreplaceably important lessons . |
| 10 | She knew she had made a mistake in not showing more surprise to the police . |
| 11 | She said she had heard a scream — and the scream came from the hill , a long way away from the water . |
| 12 | A TERRIFIED pensioner who has been burgled eight times during the last year said she had become a prisoner in her own home . |
| 13 | Pathologists who carried out a post-mortem examination on Mrs Henderson said she had developed a chest infection and died from complications due to her head injury . |
| 14 | Yesterday Mrs McIntyre said she had received a letter saying the matter was being looked into and apologising for the distress caused to Mrs Morrison . |
| 15 | The prosecutor said she had stolen a pair of jeans worth £9.99 from Woolworths in Northgate . |
| 16 | She wished she had taken a chance and kept Angel , for there was no lessening of the pain that parting with her had caused , and no comfort to be found in Newcastle Place . |
| 17 | She wished she had brought a bottle of gin with her , even a bottle of wine , but now the only place she could find one was a state liquor store , and while the clerk would know of one , sitting with a bottle waiting for the phone to ring was n't her own image of herself . |