Example sentences of "she had [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This she had painted in a warm red tone , which complemented the dark wood and brass handles of her grandfather 's furniture . |
| 2 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 3 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 4 | She replied that she had lived in a small group of about 10 people : she indicated the number by holding up both hands with the fingers spread . |
| 5 | She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised . |
| 6 | She had dressed in a vivid red blouse and a loose woollen blue cardigan , and she had tied her long dark hair into a pony tail with an orange scarf . |
| 7 | So she had jumped to a few incorrect conclusions about Piers . |
| 8 | They fell upon the red hour-glass painted on Big Momma 's abdomen as she swung down a thread of silk and revolved slowly round on the thread until she had landed on a flat shiny surface . |
| 9 | Consequently , she had to exist on an average income of £26 per week from an evening waitressing job . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't worry , Matey , ’ he said to her , leaving the room of many memories , putting his arms about her , seeing with new eyes how old she had grown , and that he was all she had , the last of the many children for whom she had cared in a long life of selfless service . |
| 11 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 12 | She had fallen into a deep and dreamless sleep , the first time in a fortnight she had slept so well , when Quinn nudged her awake . |
| 13 | She was breathing quickly , and I realized she had run by a quicker way to get ahead of me . |
| 14 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 15 | It was true also that she gave English lessons and that she had applied for a full-time job as an English teacher in a small private school . |
| 16 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |
| 17 | She had heard of a German drug called Aslocillin which she thought could help and so she pulled every string to find a supply . |
| 18 | Her prodigious roarings and weepings would be licensed in her mind by the examples of St Mary of Oignies ( whose book she had heard in an English translation ) , St Bonaventure , St Elizabeth of Hungary and an unnamed priest she had heard of who wept ‘ so wonderfully that he wetted his vestment ’ . |
| 19 | This girl was too used to getting her own way , but now she had stepped over an invisible line and she did n't even know it . |
| 20 | ‘ Liberator ’ was a role familiar to her : in the sixth century she had posed as a political giant-killer , putting down tyrannies in mainland Greece and even on the islands . |
| 21 | As a child she had suffered from a mild case of polio , which left one leg slightly shorter than the other . |
| 22 | She shared the perplexity she had felt as a young officer when she first discovered that a certain number of votes were required to elect a General . |
| 23 | But not before she had answered in a firm tone , ‘ Definitely . ’ |
| 24 | She had been deprived of him once before , six years ago , before she even knew she loved him , and then she had reacted with an endless rage that she had interpreted as hatred . |
| 25 | It would take too long and she would n't understand ; besides , she had phoned at a bad moment — Anne was obviously in a hurry to go out . |
| 26 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 27 | ‘ If industry does n't help me to achieve the objectives of the Government , we will have to take appropriate alternative steps , ’ she had said with a steely smile . |
| 28 | She had gone to a convalescent home in Bournemouth . |
| 29 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |
| 30 | She had observed with a quiet pleasure how the strident Roscoe woman had markedly cooled towards her former partner after his refusal ( and that of most of the others ) to sign her petulant letter of complaint concerning Sheila Williams . |