Example sentences of "had [verb] her [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the present case there was a glaring absence of any reliable evidence as to exactly what happened on the occasion on which Mrs. Steed had placed her signature on the transfer . |
| 2 | Julia , stunned but dry-eyed , had given her statement to the police . |
| 3 | On Saturday Mrs Totteridge had ridden in the morning and then at lunchtime had checked her goat with the attendant events from which the whole enquiry had followed . |
| 4 | Listening in their Castle Park home , his wife Virtue said Moore had altered her life for the worse . |
| 5 | She had to work her way up the system again , but decided to stay a rung below that which she had previously reached . |
| 6 | Amelia Putt had dropped her objection to the wedding of one of her employees taking place in chapel and not church when she learned the identity of Tom 's bride-to-be . |
| 7 | Dawn Allenby presented Richard St Ives with an oil-painting of a bull in a tortoise-shell frame which had caught her eye at the back of a butcher 's stall in St John 's Market . |
| 8 | I had rebuilt her box in the bottom of the treadmill . |
| 9 | But luck had come her way at the very last moment . |
| 10 | Was it too much to think that that dying little creature with the last of her strength had carried her kitten to the only haven of comfort and warmth she had ever known in the hope that it would be cared for there ? |
| 11 | The 27-year-old mother 's ordeal began when the kidnapper jumped out at her after she had parked her car at the top of a multi-storey at a shopping centre in Eastleigh , Hants . |
| 12 | It had been forty-five minutes earlier when Dr Barbara Moule had parked her Fiesta at the Chesterton Hotel , finding John Ashenden waiting for her a little anxiously . |
| 13 | By evening she had picked her way down the cliff to the rocky ledges at the water 's edge , and was the object of interest of two seals , who popped their whiskery noses up from time to time to observe her . |
| 14 | She lugged her case up the wrong stairway , came out facing the open lough , had to find her way around the superstructure . |
| 15 | Before they met she had accepted her call-up into the armed forces because it was one of the things that happened in wartime ; accepted it because it was a moral necessity . |
| 16 | She had met her connection in the usual place but the moment the deal was struck they were busted by three plainclothes policemen who had been watching them from an unmarked car on the opposite side of the road . |
| 17 | In the other case , where a wife killed her husband , there was widespread coverage when a judge decided not to jail a 25-year-old civil servant who had shot her husband through the heart just a week after their marriage . |
| 18 | She had turned her back on the lot of them , and married Frederick Bissett , from a terraced house in Leeds , bright boy of the street . |
| 19 | But she had turned her face to the wall . |
| 20 | But she had turned her face to the camera and it had caught a look that she could find nowhere else and indeed that seemed to belong to another girl ; she barely recognised herself . |
| 21 | All his life he had sought her pardon for the failure which she either could not or would not spell out for him . |
| 22 | Two or three men , besides her father , had seen her creep under the bench . |
| 23 | Afterwards , she lay there , shattered , as if a long fall had dashed her body to the ground . |
| 24 | I thought she might add , ‘ And she 's bloody well going to wear it ’ , but my mother had said her piece for the moment . |
| 25 | Travis had made her initiation into the mystery of sensuality at once incredibly tender and shockingly passionate . |
| 26 | By ensuring that young Robert Edward would live to father the next generation of Titfords , Elizabeth had made her contribution to the survival of that branch of the family . |
| 27 | Maria shook her head , still trying to reassemble the thoughts she had lost hold of when she had made her discovery in the lift . |
| 28 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 29 | Madame interrupted with a seven-minute lecture summarising the economics of the real Marguerite Gautier 's career , explaining exactly how and why she had made her way through the Paris of the 1840s with such skill and courage … |
| 30 | Carol Eastman , meanwhile , had written her screenplay on the inspiration of a Jack London story , which was similar moody vein to Ride the Whirlwind and she called hers The Shooting . |