Example sentences of "[subord] she had [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve days before her death Mrs Gilfoyle had started maternity leave from the Champion Spark Plug factory , where she had worked for 17 years . |
| 2 | Elizabeth retired a little earlier than she had planned for domestic reasons but says that she intends to keep in touch with colleagues . |
| 3 | She shot down stairs faster than she had moved for thirty years , her head full of horrific accidents . |
| 4 | If she had thought for one moment he was serious she would have been deeply shocked . |
| 5 | After she had walked for another half hour she was tired to the bone . |
| 6 | And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk . |
| 7 | She would just have to cling to her professional integrity as she had done for fifty years , and she would , as she had always tried to , make that sufficient . |
| 8 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 9 | Susan 's arm was so painful next morning and looked so inflamed that Breeze , as soon as she had foraged for some breakfast , went down to the village to find the doctor . |