Example sentences of "[subord] she had a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rubbed her arm , where she had a large bruise above the elbow . |
| 2 | By the time she had got her cases up to the guest room , made the bed up and sorted out her food supplies it was beginning to get dark and , although she had a burning desire to go up to the studio , caution prevailed . |
| 3 | Barbara says although she had a fantastic day , she will probably stick to making her own clothes in future : ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring modelling — and shopping — really are . |
| 4 | ‘ Did … did you sleep here beside me last night ? ’ she demanded huskily , although she had a sinking feeling that she already knew the answer . |
| 5 | But er according to my mother 's great joy , she got seasick even on the landing stage in in Liverpool and never came out of her cabin , so she had a big time as a young women running around the ship . |
| 6 | Cos she had a big hole like that and holes there ! |
| 7 | It 's like she had a multi-barrelled gun , and has n't just shot herself in the foot , but shot herself everywhere and blown her own head off , and no-one seems to have noticed . |
| 8 | It was as if she had a hot line to the Devil . |
| 9 | So had every other beautiful girl , of course ; but Jane Ashton was now not only the first beautiful girl Killion had kissed good night , she was the first to kiss him in return , and kiss him as if she had a great deal to give as well as take . |
| 10 | It did seem , however , that Donna Hazell , the girl with leukaemia , stood a very good chance of being cured if she had a bone-marrow transplant . |
| 11 | The girl who would only appear in school plays if she had a non-speaking part was now centre stage . |
| 12 | Still , the dream had felt so real that he could n't resist ringing her from the office to ask if she had a sixteen-year-old sister he could meet . |
| 13 | The man paid the gaveller about a shilling a day : if she had a young child to look after at the same time she would have to manage as best she could . |
| 14 | If she had a particular experience or some expertise , fine . |
| 15 | If she had a brief glimpse of life 's pleasures , then ‘ bad luck ’ would quickly follow . |
| 16 | It was hardly the kind of place that a girl should arrange to meet her own father , unless she had a cruel streak or a deeply insensitive nature , or both . |
| 17 | Chrissie knew who he was because she had a real background in screaming teeny bop stuff . |
| 18 | The doctor had helped assess the problem because she had a good relationship with her patient and had documented all her injuries . |
| 19 | Why she always sounded hoarse was because she had a masculine voice and to cover it up she pretended to have a cold . |
| 20 | Nicknamed Janet Gaynor by the make-up artists because of her resemblance to the star , she was generally liked not simply because of her sunny nature , but because she had a special hobby ; she read the teacups . |
| 21 | Funny how it was ‘ alright ’ to like Alison Moyet because she had a proper soul voice or some such Eric Clapton fan cack but Andy Bell was not a proper singer because he liked to dress funny and was quite clearly in the rugger team drinking club . |
| 22 | ‘ I only took her to the doctor because she had a bad nose bleed at playgroup , and I thought she looked a little pale . |
| 23 | After his father 's death he was taken into the house of a rich Christian lady of liberal sympathies — for Origen too liberal since she had a Gnostic chaplain . |
| 24 | After she had a hot rum toddy in a steaming , warm tub and showed Josh the trap marks on her leg , they all sat around the wooden kitchen table to eat vegetable soup , local Stilton cheese , and a salad of walnuts and chicory , followed by gingerbread that Clare had made with Mrs Gooden 's special recipe . |
| 25 | They would n't go to bed in their bedroom after she had a horrible job with them . |
| 26 | We never wanted to be the first one when she had a new stick of make-up as she did n't take the cellophane wrapper off . |
| 27 | Mrs Hamlet , who now lives in Aldford Way , Winsford , began to rebuild her life and was delighted when she had a new baby daughter , Carina , from her second marriage to Robert . |
| 28 | But the old wife always put he egg spoon through the bottom of the eggshell when she had a boiled egg after that . |
| 29 | She was about to move off when she had a sudden thought . |
| 30 | Like most families then Jill did n't have a fridge so shopping was a daily event though she had a ventilated larder to store some perishables . |