Example sentences of "she had [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare had been born in 1919 , and by the time she was twelve she had grown into a tomboy , excited by all sports — not only hockey , but sometimes she even helped out if we were short of a player for an improvised soccer game in the park . |
| 2 | It all went to show how far away she had grown from the life she had been used to lead ; and the marriage , of course , explained Papa 's sudden permission for her own . |
| 3 | Her emotionally deprived life is enhanced briefly when she is read to in a churchyard on Sunday afternoons by the invalid cousin she had loved as a child . |
| 4 | He was the Maurice Charlotte had always known then , the Maurice she had loved as a brother and trusted as a friend . |
| 5 | But she talked about a boy she had loved in the war and who had been killed . |
| 6 | Breathless , she slowed to a walk through the lemon groves near the complex , and by the time she reached Monte Samana she had slowed to a snail 's pace . |
| 7 | And to Carole 's annoyance , Hyacinth Scragg had not turned up , despite the reminder she had received over a cup of tea at the conference centre . |
| 8 | Alan was in London talking business with his agent , Audrey Ellison , when she just happened to mention a letter she had received from a friend in Budapest about a young pianist who was about to be hauled into the Hungarian army to do his national service . |
| 9 | French was tough going for Anna , but she had ploughed through the correspondence of Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé , and Freud and Lawrence of Arabia . |
| 10 | He had assumed , discriminated , made her feel as if she had to apologise for the way she lived her life , when he knew nothing , nothing of her circumstances or her reasons . |
| 11 | She rummaged through the assorted pile , looking for her new lipstick and perfume , and spotted the mail which she had collected from the postman first thing , on her way to the shops . |
| 12 | Altogether she had served on the committee for 11 years . |
| 13 | By the time of her seventieth birthday she had served on the Board of Governors of the BBC , the Corporation 's General Advisory Council , the Arts Council and the British Council and their respective literary committees , to say nothing of her work with such organizations as the Royal Society of Literature . |
| 14 | Since the autumn of 1990 she had served on the board where she co-ordinated the work of Treuhand 's 15 regional offices . |
| 15 | Squatting in front of the fire door , Jess battled with a little pyramid of dried hay and sticks she had built under the copper . |
| 16 | Rose knew that she had built on the foundations well and truly laid by Grandpa . |
| 17 | She was buried under the pavilion she had built in the Roshanara Gardens . |
| 18 | For almost a month she had remained in the house , eating and sleeping and sitting , submitting to Lyddy 's hairbrush , practising her daily ration at the piano , performing her daily ration upon tapestry canvas , running endless little errands for Aunt Emily , trying to make her handwriting more ladylike , her movements more graceful . |
| 19 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 20 | Of course , the fourteen years since she had moved into the Bayswater house had not been years of unremitting misery and depression . |
| 21 | At eleven o'clock she had turned on the wireless to hear the old man tell them they were at war with Germany . |
| 22 | One woman , writing to a relative at the Front on the day of the invasion itself , said she had been ‘ speechless ’ as , wholly unawares , she had turned on the radio and caught Hitler 's proclamation about the campaign in the east . |
| 23 | If so , she had prepared for the event more thoroughly than he could ever have imagined . |
| 24 | She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards . |
| 25 | She remembered again the scene she had recalled at the clinic . |
| 26 | He went yet again in 1801 , by then she had altered from the time when she had ‘ full eyes , vermillion lips , and cheeks like lillies ’ to a ‘ bulky wife of a farmer , blessed with much good humour and a ready utterance . ’ |
| 27 | He looked at the copper bosom covers she had to wear as a belly dancer — and then at the less than fully-endowed nature of Miss Harris 's bust and said cuttingly , ‘ Which way up are they supposed to go ? ’ |
| 28 | She had detoured through the town 's central square on the way home and had sat down on a bench , raising her head to the trees . |
| 29 | She had already spent an hour weeding and was determined to uproot a particularly tough dandelion ; then coffee , then the weekend shopping and then off to the sailing club where she had enrolled for a course of lessons in board-sailing . |
| 30 | Three months later , Allison was travelling home by train from London , where she had enrolled at an agency for temporary secretaries , when labour pains began . |