Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 20–6 Mrs McIver , wife of the Moderator , asked to be relieved of the duty of leader of praise which she had undertaken for the past two years . |
| 2 | Of all the advice she had received from the other creatures , taking away the dog 's food was the only one , she decided in the end , that might have a chance of succeeding . |
| 3 | This she had painted in a warm red tone , which complemented the dark wood and brass handles of her grandfather 's furniture . |
| 4 | After her swim she had sprawled in the hot sun to dry off naturally then dressed and lazily explored the lovely Mediterranean gardens . |
| 5 | Miss Honey did just that , and within a couple of weeks she had moved into The Red House , the very place in which she had been brought up and where luckily all the family furniture and pictures were still around . |
| 6 | She replied that she had lived in a small group of about 10 people : she indicated the number by holding up both hands with the fingers spread . |
| 7 | She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised . |
| 8 | She had lived in the lovely old building for twenty years and never had any desire to leave it or the grounds . |
| 9 | But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time . |
| 10 | Calming down , Loretta outlined what she had discovered about the dead man . |
| 11 | Eva used much of her material supplementing it as time went by with quotations she had discovered in the local library and the library at the ICO . |
| 12 | She had dressed in a vivid red blouse and a loose woollen blue cardigan , and she had tied her long dark hair into a pony tail with an orange scarf . |
| 13 | Her own attraction to Matthew she had pushed to the outermost edges of her consciousness . |
| 14 | She knew very little about surgery and nothing about childbirth , but she had a fund of common sense , and the moment she had pushed through the useless , wailing women downstairs , and seen the squalid room in which Dr Neil was working , she had begun to dredge up what little she knew in order to help him . |
| 15 | They fell upon the red hour-glass painted on Big Momma 's abdomen as she swung down a thread of silk and revolved slowly round on the thread until she had landed on a flat shiny surface . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't worry , Matey , ’ he said to her , leaving the room of many memories , putting his arms about her , seeing with new eyes how old she had grown , and that he was all she had , the last of the many children for whom she had cared in a long life of selfless service . |
| 17 | They had been down here in Devon for almost two weeks , and already she had fallen under the lazy , carefree spell of the tranquil countryside . |
| 18 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 19 | She had fallen into a deep and dreamless sleep , the first time in a fortnight she had slept so well , when Quinn nudged her awake . |
| 20 | They were shadows that she could never have imagined when , as a young girl , she had run along the cold sands of Northumberland and watched the east wind flatten and fold the dunes as she dreamed of a bigger , more exciting world beyond — and away from her mother 's influence . |
| 21 | She had run from the exploding craft and collapsed . |
| 22 | She had decided against the new silks . |
| 23 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 24 | She had stood outside the huge pillars of University College , Dublin , and looked at it all with satisfaction . |
| 25 | They had been working together , and she had asked about the following day . |
| 26 | Then she had descended through the familiar outer layers of Dreamspace , and faded in on the bus . |
| 27 | It was true also that she gave English lessons and that she had applied for a full-time job as an English teacher in a small private school . |
| 28 | She had heard of a German drug called Aslocillin which she thought could help and so she pulled every string to find a supply . |
| 29 | She had heard about the little boy Grégoire — Jean-Paul 's son , so people said . |
| 30 | Her prodigious roarings and weepings would be licensed in her mind by the examples of St Mary of Oignies ( whose book she had heard in an English translation ) , St Bonaventure , St Elizabeth of Hungary and an unnamed priest she had heard of who wept ‘ so wonderfully that he wetted his vestment ’ . |