Example sentences of "she had [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she talked about a boy she had loved in the war and who had been killed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One of the nurses she had seen in the cloakroom was standing in the middle of the corridor , flushed pink and grinning like an idiot , while That Man lounged on one leg in all his taut leather and chatted her up . |
| 5 | More images whirled through Loretta 's head — the figure she had seen in the bed , a body being dragged to the door , herself in handcuffs waiting to board the ferry . |
| 6 | She included in her discontent each miscarriage of her own generosity , but nothing was so bad as what she had seen in the farmyard . |
| 7 | Gedanken suddenly remembered the roll of rubber sheeting — the one she had seen in the corner of the laboratory . |
| 8 | He sighed heavily , and Belinda was about to ask what was wrong — after all , they were still friends , in spite of what she had seen in the garden tonight , and her revelation of feeling should n't dictate this new reticence — when he spoke at last . |
| 9 | She had lived in the flat for about six months and , according to neighbours , there had been a number of disturbances to which police had been called . |
| 10 | She had to sit in the waiting-room , on a slippery horsehair sofa , while it was going on . |
| 11 | For several hours she had hidden in the service area , biding her time , finding her courage again . |
| 12 | Sophie concentrated on the sweetness of the apple and by the time she had gathered drops of juice along her tongue , Lori was below her , lying on the turf and crying because she had fallen in the near-dark . |
| 13 | Had Araminta been right in that brief exchange she had overheard in the breakfast parlour ? |
| 14 | Perhaps , like the frightened creature she had imagined in the night — it was after all herself — ; it would always be so until she turned and truly faced the thing she feared ? |
| 15 | Of all the roles she had played in the theatre , of all the great works that had come her way , she was fated to be remembered mostly for how she pronounced the rhetorical question , ‘ A hand-bag ? ’ |
| 16 | When she married she had to live in the country and , instead of bemoaning what she 'd lost in the way of concerts and the theatre , she enjoyed what was on offer . |
| 17 | She did not waste time thinking it could be Oliver whose quiet movement she had sensed in the bedroom . |
| 18 | She put up her hands in a gesture reminiscent of the one which she had made in the attic , when she had been still fearful of him and of all men , but the gesture was as much for Havvie as for him . |
| 19 | She had stayed in the cellar for what she thought was about three days and then realised that she had n't felt the vibration of gunfire for some time , perhaps a day and a night . |
| 20 | She fried the chicken in some butter , put the vegetables on to boil , remembering the salt at the last minute , and was debating how to make a cheese sauce that bore some resemblance to those she had eaten in the past , when he walked in . |
| 21 | She went to the full-length mirror beside her dressing-table , pulling off the headband she had worn in the bath and releasing the glossy brown hair that tumbled almost to her shoulders . |
| 22 | She still had on the revealing silk blouse she had worn in the show , with stage jewellery sparkling at her throat and breast . |
| 23 | When Edward suggested they dance Sally was grateful for the lessons she had endured in the school gymnasium with Miss Smart the games teacher yelling ‘ slow , slow , quick quick , slow ’ in time to the music . |
| 24 | She heard words like ‘ impulsive ’ , ‘ trusting ’ , ‘ hot-tempered ’ being mentioned , and she slotted the adjectives into her own life , thinking back to all the things she had done in the past which conformed with the personality being dissected by the astrologer . |
| 25 | Her plans to move away from London meant that she was no longer able to continue as director of the Display Team and she was warmly thanked for everything she had done in the past . |
| 26 | any way she said its nothing like the tiles she had done in the kitchen |
| 27 | She did n't look as bad as she had done in the dressing room but she was obviously not young , not slender , not a girl . |
| 28 | Mary showed him the work she had done in the garden , and they talked as they cut and cleared . |
| 29 | From what she had read in the diary , it seemed any boy with a pleasing face and the latest clothes was in for a good time . |
| 30 | For only that morning , she had read in the paper a case of a man , and not an old man , who had dropped dead in the street of some heart complaint . |