Example sentences of "she had [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benny was also putting off telling her own parents about the accident , but she had to decide which of the two nuns to talk to on Eve 's behalf . |
| 2 | Sarah told Maureen that she had received one by the same post . |
| 3 | Ever since she had saved him in the snowstorm , George had been uncomfortably aware of her presence . |
| 4 | The Rectory , when she reached it ten minutes later , was as silent and calm as when she had visited it with the Archdeacon on Saturday evening . |
| 5 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 6 | She had soiled herself to the point of revulsion by submitting to his pawing in the public street — as shameless as the casual coupling of two dogs . |
| 7 | She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck . |
| 8 | Rachaela thought of the day she had seen her in the snow , the day Emma had bowed out from their lives with urgent smiles . |
| 9 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 10 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 11 | She had seen them around the hotel for the last five days . |
| 12 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 13 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 14 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 15 | Four weeks later she had seen him in the cinema queue with another girl , and had perceived that her day was over ; in between , she had known disorientation and obsession , diagnosed her trouble , and felt exhilarated . |
| 16 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
| 17 | Since she 'd started work she had seen nothing of the surrounding area , except that covered by the bus route which took her to work and back each day . |
| 18 | She had seen it on the table on her Wednesday visit and had said : |
| 19 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 20 | Because he had faith in her — she had seen it in the colours he painted her . |
| 21 | Even so , she had hidden herself in the claustrophobic cabin , afraid she might be recognized . |
| 22 | Had he been bearing a grudge against her since the previous Friday when she had pushed him against the door of Woolworth 's ? |
| 23 | Elisabeth took her bicycle from where she had lent it against the garden fence . |
| 24 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 25 | She had cared nothing for the man who was attacking her then ; her despair now was because she could not bear the caresses of the man whom she loved , and she knew loved her . |
| 26 | She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught ! |
| 27 | ‘ Kirsty MacColl bollocked me about that gay thing , right , because she had to defend herself to the people she knew saying , ‘ Look , Shaun ai n't like that . ’ |
| 28 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |
| 29 | She had asked him about the planet . |
| 30 | She hardly dared to draw the curtains to show herself to the other girls , though she had warned them of the horrid sight in store for them . |