Example sentences of "she had [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely this night the unexpected would happen , surely she had summoned up the unexpected . |
| 2 | Holy Mother , she had blurted out the wrong thing already . |
| 3 | Earlier , holidaying in the less exotic Yorkshire resort of Filey she had picked up the American Beat anthology Protest , one of the volumes triggered by the ‘ on the road ’ boom after 1957 . |
| 4 | He wished that he could as easily delete the memory of what had followed after she had switched on the overhead light . |
| 5 | Even after she had switched off the small lamp beside the bed , so that the room was completely dark , it was hard to be sure if she was really seeing something , or if her eyes were just playing tricks . |
| 6 | As soon as she had forced down the last of her food , she pushed her plate away and stood up . |