Example sentences of "she had [verb] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion she had drunk a lot of alcohol , which had made her feel worse . |
| 2 | ‘ Collier gave her the necessary sum , and when she had received a receipt of payment from the agent , he duly robbed the agent of the money … |
| 3 | The accused maintained that he had gone to her home to ask if she had received a letter of apology from him for his earlier crime . |
| 4 | She had to use a lot of initiative and think on her feet . |
| 5 | She had developed a habit of raising her hand to her mouth to check because she had no feeling there . |
| 6 | After all , she had to do a lot of smiling in her business , too . |
| 7 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 8 | On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home . |
| 9 | An hour or so ago , she had seen a stone of the right size and shape lying on the edge of a garden , and had put it into her pocket . |
| 10 | She had said , her eyes glittering with simulated enthusiasm , that she could hardly wait to get to her cottage , and Betty had said wistfully that it seemed like years since she had seen a blade of grass ( which was silly in itself , because of what else were the lawns of Hyde Park composed ? ) ; so Lydia , unhinged with the shock of bereavement , and further undone by wine , had said she could come too . |
| 11 | She had seen a lot of Japanese kaiju eiga flatties as a child thanks to a quirk of her father 's , and had now been able to draw on her memories of them . |
| 12 | She had to drink a pint of water . |
| 13 | Afterwards , she had contrived a quarter of an hour alone with him in a private office . |
| 14 | She had played a lot of Shaw including Candida ; and created Ellie Dunn in Heartbreak House , named after her by Shaw . |
| 15 | In a statement , the Department said Mrs McGonagle indicated she had obtained a copy of the specimen paper and made a number of photo-copies . |
| 16 | By August 1938 she had become a resident of the mental hospital , and Maurice reported to Eliot that she seemed " fairly cheerful , had slept well and eaten well , and had sat out in the garden and read a certain amount . " |
| 17 | By the late 1880s she had become a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft [ q.v. ] , who wrote to Joshua on 9 December 1790 : ‘ I fear her situation is still very uncomfortable . |
| 18 | Pat Yot had never been entrusted with such responsibility before but she had become a friend of the family ; to Bernard and Laura loyalty and energy mattered far more than experience . |
| 19 | Very soon , she had become a sort of personal assistant , helping him select fabrics , cost dresses and choose accessories . |
| 20 | Although she had become a native of the boats , and pitied the tideless and ratless life of the Chelsea inhabitants , she respected the water and knew that one could die within sight of the Embankment . |
| 21 | She had become obsessed with Eliot and his work at the age of fourteen , after she had heard a recording of " The Journey of the Magi " : " It was extraordinary , " she said later , " that I felt I just had to get to Tom , to work with him . " |
| 22 | Her every move had been followed by jaundiced and world-weary senior politicians ; she had noticed a gleam of lust in the good eye of a privy Councillor , and Peter Riddell of The Times had made a note of her name . |
| 23 | The former had taken a golf-club to a smooth , level patch of grass a short distance from the house which Philippe Bonard , anxious to cater for his clients ' leisure needs as well as their thirst for learning , had laid out as a green ; she had donned a pair of heavy-framed spectacles and was practising putting . |
| 24 | On July 8 she had announced a stepping-up of the deportations of illegal immigrants , and had said that the state would charter special aircraft for the task . |
| 25 | She had inherited a chain of garages . |
| 26 | She had made a fool of him and he would n't let that go . |
| 27 | That was when she had made a fool of herself . |
| 28 | And , although she was rapidly coming to the conclusion that she had made a fool of herself all down the line , she still did n't quite know how . |
| 29 | She had made a fool of herself . |
| 30 | She was restless , still feeling she had made a bit of a fool of herself . |