Example sentences of "had [verb] her [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day . |
| 2 | He had heard her cries in the night . |
| 3 | She had stopped her tears with the heel of her hand , and face-paint smeared it . |
| 4 | ‘ Araminta wanted me to clear up first , ’ Theda answered , trying to still the flutter that had attacked her pulses at the touch of his hand on her arm . |
| 5 | Sylvia had enjoyed her months in the States , but was glad to be going home . |
| 6 | Running downstairs we found that my eldest sister , Gertrude , who had been helping Mum , had caught her fingers in the rollers . |
| 7 | After Becky had bade her farewells to the rest of the party , Guy drove her back to Chelsea and having said , ‘ Goodnight , Miss Salmon , ’ shook her by the hand . |
| 8 | She had regained her senses by the time she made her way back with his drink . |
| 9 | Orchis is Greek for testicle , which is what the roots look like , and Lydia had told the company so , because Mrs Molesworth , gazing fondly and favourably on her husband , had divulged that he had bought her orchids on the recent occasion of their wedding anniversary . |
| 10 | Still , he 's a married man , and his wife is in her seventh month , from what I hear : that 's why she had to send her apologies at the last moment … |
| 11 | She had spent her lunch-hours of the two previous days in talking to letting agents . |
| 12 | And all this while , from behind her mourning veil , she had fixed her eyes on the inner door , and watched for revelations from within . |
| 13 | She had left her dogs in the car at the gate . |
| 14 | She well , she had to have her tiles on the floor of hers . |
| 15 | Bursting into her life with a devastating charm , he had undermined her defences with skill , until she had faced him as defenceless as a de-shelled crab , and he had destroyed her illusions with the cruel indifference of a natural predator . |