Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of the joys of life , and particularly she loved dancing tonight with Tony Radcliffe , because he was her oldest friend in the world and this was the first time she had seen him for eighteen months . |
| 2 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |
| 3 | She had seen something in those dark tragic eyes , something akin to the anguish betrayed now in Tyler 's . |
| 4 | She had seen it at first hand , treated children who were victims . |
| 5 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |
| 6 | She had seen none of this glamorous life ; she had seldom even been to smart restaurants , let alone banquets and star-studded receptions . |
| 7 | She had used inexperienced girls with no make-up , she had shown their deliberately unshaven armpits , she had dressed them in creased and crumpled frocks — the mood shot taken to its logical conclusion , perhaps , as well as an echo of her mother 's antipathy towards using professional models , but a far cry from the traditional ‘ Laura Ashley ’ image of strawberries-and-cream-tea on the lawn . |
| 8 | She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear . |
| 9 | The ‘ magic ’ as she had called it in those exciting days when it had all begun , had become a curse . |
| 10 | I could almost feel sorry for her , she had gotten herself into such a false position . |
| 11 | Employing only a cool curiosity , she had defended herself from sentimental pretences . |
| 12 | She had met him at one of those dinner parties which had now become the nexus of her social life , replacing conferences and meetings , although few of the individuals had changed . |
| 13 | She wished suddenly that she had met him under different circumstances : not as Jenny 's boy friend ; not as her fellow beneficiary in Aunt Alicia 's will . |
| 14 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 15 | She had liked him in those days and some of that liking still remained , resented , only half-acknowledged , but bound up with memories of sunlit walks in Port Meadow , luncheon and laughter in Hugo 's rooms , with the years of hope and promise . |
| 16 | Her heart beat crazily within her as she recalled that the last time she 'd seen him she had hit him with all her might — and from the look of fury on his face he was not easily going to forgive her ! |
| 17 | She had seen people die , she had seen them give birth , she had chopped them into little pieces : more significantly , with Charles she had achieved orgasm , which she had never managed with Edgar . |
| 18 | From the age of 22 she had cut herself on many occasions . |
| 19 | But that was only because she had eaten nothing since last night and had been so furious this morning about her father 's gall in writing that damnably cheerful letter . |
| 20 | Once home — and although she had eaten nothing for several hours — Annette found that she could not face the thought of a meal , even though her husband offered to prepare one for her . |
| 21 | But she had said it without much hope . |
| 22 | Leith , having popped along to her bedroom to take her hair out of the knot she had worn it in all day , was having serious thoughts about her actions — inviting him for a meal , for goodness ' sake ! |
| 23 | She had wanted it since last Christmas when they went to the pantomime in Dublin and she had seen the girls on the stage dancing in pink velvet dresses like this . |
| 24 | He had always been there and when she was little she had worshipped him with all the adulation of any little girl for a big , brave , older brother . |
| 25 | But she knew in her heart that , if she had ever had Jonathon , she had lost him for good . |
| 26 | Somehow a favourite dress or toy of Paige 's would be damaged , but she had done it with such guile that her parents could never be sure it was intentional . |
| 27 | He had spent the morning in bed with Rosie , which was why he 'd missed his date down at the docks , she had rung him at ten to eight . |
| 28 | Why had n't she realized how hopeless she had become , how she had forgotten everything during those months of pregnancy ? |
| 29 | She remembered how she had submerged herself in scented water every day and sometimes twice in the sticky summertime and never would again , until she grew up and had a bathroom of her own . |
| 30 | She had needed nothing but some rough grazing , a few wells and the hospitality of the bedu to get her across . |