Example sentences of "she had [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana was flattered , flustered and bewildered by the passion she had aroused in a man twelve years her senior . |
| 2 | It seemed to her now that she had lived in a dream . |
| 3 | But she had lived with a dragon for over ten years , and she had lived in a house filled with strong women , so she knew that there was something very wrong with that scenario . |
| 4 | She had dressed in a hurry . |
| 5 | As quick as a flash , Mildred pulled out a lasso of rope which she had hidden in a drawer and slipped it over the astonished girl 's head and shoulders , yanking it tightly enough to bind her arms to her sides . |
| 6 | She had taught in a language school in Birmingham three mornings a week , a language school with a crèche , run by an enlightened Belgian woman , where Charlotte and Luke had gone until they were old enough for school . |
| 7 | Well she go Hilda got a baby boy about eighteen month old when I knew her like you know , and er she lived by I think it was I think it was you know and er what happened to her I be I think she had to go in a home or er you see and er baby boy was adopted like , the baby boy that 's about all I know about her that 's about all . |
| 8 | She wondered , laughing as Sabina jogged her , for she had halted in a daydream , what it would be like to encourage him , to overcome the scruples he so kindly showed by not exploring her body . |
| 9 | She had stayed in a Delhi shack made of biscuit tins and a tarpaulin . |
| 10 | Her toughest assignment turned out to be the anchor-leg of the intermediate girls relay , when she had to put in a spurt to hold off a determined challenge from Middlesbrough . |
| 11 | She had worked in a laboratory . |
| 12 | With a bit more luck , train services willing , she could be in and out of Mariánské Láznë today , and , even if she had to fit in a visit to that garage near Františkovy Láznë , by nightfall she could be across the Czechoslovakian border and on her way home to England . |
| 13 | His aunt and her daughter stayed to hear if there was anything of interest in the will which she had left in a drawer , but they went disappointed , giving Tim a couple of moist hugs on their way out . |
| 14 | Ilsa 's chair was at an angle as if she had left in a hurry . |
| 15 | How thrilled the girl had been to be going to the Holy City , how lovely she had looked in a jacket of scarlet silk , a birthday present given only the day before by Mrs Browning , how she had glowed and shivered with anticipation … |
| 16 | Because she had been reluctant to meet up with Celeste again , she had sat in a public stand a long way away from the private seating , the grid , the pits , but now she raced back towards them . |