Example sentences of "[subord] she had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay gripped , burrowed her head in Lucy 's belly : here so safe and wanted inside her beloved Jeremy had grown ; her brow nudged Lucy 's breasts , where Jeremy had sucked himself full and strong , where she had found a contentment warm as summer wind across white sands ; here she had swum easy as a seal , crystal seas halcyon over her head . |
| 2 | However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June . |
| 3 | Although she had become a native of the boats , and pitied the tideless and ratless life of the Chelsea inhabitants , she respected the water and knew that one could die within sight of the Embankment . |
| 4 | He was such a dear old thing , although she had heard a rumour about him and Sylvia . |
| 5 | Fortunately , she was a feminist and seldom asked for extra money , since she would consider that degrading , although she had accepted a house and school fees . |
| 6 | Although she had mentioned a man named Clive . |
| 7 | Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . |
| 8 | She 's only got two suitcases , so she had to leave a lot of stuff behind — like her tailor 's dummy and all the furniture . |
| 9 | Cora-Beth had told him the night before that there were letters and cards awaiting him from England , all of which had ‘ Not To Be Opened Until 5 Jan. ’ on the envelopes , so she had extracted a promise from him to leave them on his bedside table until this morning . |
| 10 | All the child 's socks were dirty so she had turned a pair inside out and put them on her . |
| 11 | Once she had visited a friend who had a room in a house in North London ; she had accompanied her friend into the small back garden , and had been deeply shocked to find that the walls dividing the row of small terraced gardens were only two feet high . |
| 12 | Once she had read a caption under the picture of a royal bride-to-be . |
| 13 | She had her difficulties , too , or she would have been with him by this ; but she was as much the prisoner of circumstances as he , and could not well take ship until she had established a firm and safe regime for her young son . |
| 14 | Sister Ignatia had said that Flora could n't know whether she wanted to come or not until she had had a sniff of the place , seen some of the other girls . |
| 15 | If she had wanted a husband , she could not have found a good reason for refusing to marry him . |
| 16 | ‘ What 's wrong , Dana ? ’ she asked , feeling as if she had run a mile instead of just a few feet . |
| 17 | Just a frail little thing , was n't she , the wind could have picked her up and tossed her away , yet she had demolished him as surely as if she had wielded a pick-axe handle to his belly . |
| 18 | The accused maintained that he had gone to her home to ask if she had received a letter of apology from him for his earlier crime . |
| 19 | Pushing Charlotte home in the dusk , she felt rather exhilarated , as if she had made a discovery . |
| 20 | They 'd have a record if she had made a Will . |
| 21 | Again Clare wondered if she had gone a bit too far , speaking so negatively about Gran 's novels , and being so emphatically against the trust . |
| 22 | She looked as if she had heard a lot more , but was too tactful to say so . |
| 23 | Nothing had been said between the two friends , and Ella often wondered if she had imagined a situation which did not , in fact , exist . |
| 24 | Esther Dyson had consistently denied being pregnant , but two days prior to the discovery of the child , she had appeared very big in the family way , then the next morning , Mrs. Greaves noticed that Esther Dyson was pale , languid , weak and thinner , as if she had delivered a child . |
| 25 | But if she had expected a reaction of guilty surprise she was disappointed . |
| 26 | It was a distinct , physical feeling of sick panic , as if she had taken a step — and there was nothing there . |
| 27 | In her bedroom now , sipping her whisky , she acknowledged for the first time in her life that if she had to make a list of the happy times , it would properly have to include the hours she had spent with Graham in his garden . |
| 28 | If she had found a man , life would have turned out differently for her , he knew . |
| 29 | Then , as if she had found a flaw in his argument , she pinged her own bell and announced : ‘ But you love Cork . |
| 30 | That 's to say , she had firm features and smartly cut , possibly dyed hair obviously kept under regular control , and she behaved as if she had known a time when she turned every head and expected you to be aware of this too . |