Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A moment later , though , and Fabia was scrapping that theory , for she had just remembered how Ven had parted from her with the words , ‘ I 'll send Ivo for you about seven . ’ |
| 2 | He had explained to her about the imitation dove that would fly out from the high altar during the Easter mass and light a great cart of fireworks . |
| 3 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 4 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 5 | Her father had sat with her through the nights , holding her hands , comforting her , robbing himself of sleep to be with her and help her through the worst of it . |
| 6 | He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes . |
| 7 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 8 | He had come to her in the night . |
| 9 | A wonderful change had come over her since the episode with the cockchafers . |
| 10 | This was meant to be the moment of her greatest satisfaction , when she unleashed on him all the bitterness and resentment that she had carried inside her over the years . |
| 11 | Her mother had stopped crocheting , so Jessie said , and was in the sitting-room going through a catalogue of curtain material for yet another change at the windows and had decided firmly against anything resembling Nottingham Lace ; her mind was now set on drapes with pelmets , so Jessie had whispered to her in the back shop a short while ago . |
| 12 | Maria stood there , hating him , but not for anything he had done to her in the past . |
| 13 | She mouthed him , as he had done to her before the bite of his lust . |
| 14 | Was it true , what he had said to her about the value of this family life ? |
| 15 | No matter what they had said to her at the hospital , it had been her fault she had died . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't you know what time — ’ she began , but already , somehow , he had moved past her into the dimly lit office and was standing confidently at her drawing-board , casually eyeing the plan that she had been working on . |
| 17 | At one of them sat the men who , she was sure , had jeered at her from the wall beside the petrol pumps and were now slapping down playing cards and shouting Ventidue ! with much of their remaining strength . |
| 18 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
| 19 | A minute more and she was certain she had walked further than the distance from the van to where Sniffy had called to her from the undergrowth . |
| 20 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 21 | A year later to the day he had proposed to her at the same table . |
| 22 | He had shown , or so it had seemed to her at the time , genuine concern for others . |
| 23 | It had seemed to her at the time that this was all she was to be allowed of Ace , and so it became the most precious thing in her life . |
| 24 | The vague sense of depression that had settled over her in the library began to slip away . |
| 25 | Eva already had the uniforms she had brought with her for the youth congress . |
| 26 | Cynthia Merstam watched in silence as the nurse arranged the big bunch of gladioli she had brought with her to the nursing-home . |
| 27 | She was busy at the tap over in the far corner of the cemetery , filling the empty bottle she had brought with her from the house . |
| 28 | But ‘ it was evidently all she owned ; it was the home she had brought with her from the Fatherland , and would be the home she would set up on the prairie ’ . |
| 29 | Papa , of course , was an actor , and had spoken to her about the pit and the gallery , the stage , the curtain and dressing-rooms . |
| 30 | Mrs. Wicksted reported that a member of the Bingo Club had spoken to her re the condition of the road outside the hall . |