Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Sarah told Maureen that she had received one by the same post .
2 Ever since she had saved him in the snowstorm , George had been uncomfortably aware of her presence .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Rachaela thought of the day she had seen her in the snow , the day Emma had bowed out from their lives with urgent smiles .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 She had seen them around the hotel for the last five days .
11 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 .
12 She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet .
13 She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost .
14 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 .
15 She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom .
16 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 .
17 She had seen it on the table on her Wednesday visit and had said :
18 This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day .
19 Because he had faith in her — she had seen it in the colours he painted her .
20 Even so , she had hidden herself in the claustrophobic cabin , afraid she might be recognized .
21 Had he been bearing a grudge against her since the previous Friday when she had pushed him against the door of Woolworth 's ?
22 Elisabeth took her bicycle from where she had lent it against the garden fence .
23 By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly .
24 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 .
25 She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught !
26 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 .
27 She had asked him about the planet .
28 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 .
29 He would look up from his newspaper after supper to find her eyes fixed on him , in a way which brought back to him the passion with which she had kissed him upon the moor .
30 She had created it from the chaos , she was its God .
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