Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had faced a certain amount of humiliation again at the hands of that wretched Marie , but the thing that stayed in her mind was the feel of Alain 's arms and the tang of his skin . |
| 2 | A WOMAN told an Old Bailey jury yesterday she had broken a 30-year silence about sexual abuse by her step-father to protect a young girl . |
| 3 | Jessie had said a fortnight , but it was only nine days since she had broken the awful news to her . |
| 4 | She had sustained a slight scratch on her neck . |
| 5 | After the sickening shock of the rapid deterioration of her first childish marriage , she had been so afraid of ever again being engulfed by hatred and violence that she had maintained a resolute pleasantness even through the worst of times , even with Charles , who was not an easy man . |
| 6 | One compositor , Jean Henderson whose daughter kindly provided me with information , went into the trade ( in the 1890s , that is some time after the earliest entrants ) straight from the Dean Orphanage , where she had received a good education ( see Plate 1 ) . |
| 7 | Iris glowed as if she had received a personal compliment . |
| 8 | She had received no advance warning , and was all the more disturbed when Mr Cheney justified his move by declaring that the threat from the Warsaw Pact was diminishing . |
| 9 | The courts ' attitude did not depend on endowing the husband in such cases with the role of agent for the lender , but they demonstrated an equitable intervention in favour of married women where the lender knew of the husband/wife relationship , had done nothing to ensure that the wife understood the transaction , and she had received no independent advice . |
| 10 | As clearly as she recalled that spring day so long ago when she had received the small wound . |
| 11 | showed us the lovely crystal glass which she had received the previous Wednesday at Wembley Conference Centre . |
| 12 | She had visited the Red House once only , at Caro 's invitation . |
| 13 | While Philip slept , while Mary and Reggie slept , while Roberta and Faye slept ( they had not come out of their room ) she had painted a whole room . |
| 14 | Later while being dragged through the house she had noted the dark hair , the strongly built body , but had hardly had time to consider the possible age and attractiveness of her irate and unwilling host . |
| 15 | She had noted the young woman 's attire . |
| 16 | She put a great many potatoes on my plate after she had served the hot salmon . |
| 17 | The treatment meted out was degrading and she had hated the middle classes ever after . |
| 18 | The hut roof was fairly whole now , and she had built a tiny hearth under the highest part of the roof where she might risk a fire . |
| 19 | She had built a safe world where nothing hurt , and she intended to stay in it . |
| 20 | She had already been removed to the Intensive Care Unit at the JR2 , but in the bedroom there seemed quite sufficient evidence that she had planned a deliberate departure . |
| 21 | She had prepared a large stew , or thick soup , her speciality , brought to perfection in years of communal living . |
| 22 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |
| 23 | From her period of residential living she had developed a particular rapport with Henry . |
| 24 | Over the years she had developed a discerning palate and acquired an encyclopaedic knowledge of the needs and habitat of vines , the locations of particular vineyards , the reliability of chateaux bottling and the suitability of a wine with a specific food . |
| 25 | In a statement through her lawyer , the psychiatrist said she had developed a unique therapy : the role of ‘ a benevolent mother who would not abuse him ’ . |
| 26 | ( c ) She had developed a severe pneumonia and , whether as a result of the accident or the pneumonia or both , was in severe pain . |
| 27 | She wondered if she had developed an early warning system since the fiasco with Marcus . |
| 28 | She had developed an implacable hatred for Adolph 's doctor . |
| 29 | He recalled how she had given a great deal of help to the group of residents who in 1981 formed Project ‘ 81 — now the Hampshire Centre for Independent Living — which developed a structure to enable disabled people to leave residential care and live in the community . |
| 30 | And she had given a certain name to it , and I ca n't remember what the name was now , something like fiddling , I mean fiddling is too obvious , it was n't that , but it was something like that , an ordinary everyday term like that . |