Example sentences of "had [verb] she [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She showed me the marks on the back of her knuckles and her wrist where that bitch had walloped her with a rod of some sort , right from the first day . ’ |
| 2 | The excitement of this first fall of rain had filled her with a desire that things should be different , that she should be happy again . |
| 3 | Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away . |
| 4 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |
| 5 | When she had protested to Lord Wardley , who was chief billeting officer for that part of Northumberland , he had referred her to a minion who , in turn , had taken great pleasure in pointing out that she could , if she preferred , have some evacuees from Gateshead but , either way , her spare room could not remain empty when everyone was required to make a war effort . |
| 6 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 7 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
| 8 | I had to carry her over the wall , can you imagine , to get her to my rooms . |
| 9 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 10 | Tess realized that the farmer was the same Trantridge man who had recognized her in the market town , and had been knocked down by Angel . |
| 11 | She had n't expected to be greeted with open arms , but the reception she 'd actually received had shaken her to the core . |
| 12 | And he had stopped her in the lobby once to enquire , ‘ How are things going ? |
| 13 | He snatched his furniture from the house and dumped it on a tip , then took the car which he had given her as a present away for scrap . |
| 14 | And what he was saying seemed to be in direct conflict to the hurtful reasons for their marriage he had given her on the drawbridge yesterday . |
| 15 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 16 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
| 17 | She recalled the swift bruising kiss he had given her in the restaurant . |
| 18 | She gave a little shiver as a goose ran over her grave , and stroked Cas and Poll , who had joined her on the swing-seat . |
| 19 | Simon , however , would n't hear of it , and had joined her in the kitchen to help with the dishes . |
| 20 | She did n't realise that Guy Sterne had joined her in the sitting-room until he spoke from behind her chair . |
| 21 | By the time he had pressed her into a seat she had herself under more control , and was suffering acute embarrassment at her outburst . |
| 22 | I had to isolate her from the rest . ’ |
| 23 | Therese had been studying them as soon as the Direktor had telephoned her with the news of the productions and her roles . |
| 24 | He had installed her in a cottage on East Street and in the last few days before the wedding she had worked all hours to spicken the place up and turn it into a home for him . |
| 25 | Between them , Candy and Adam had hounded her into a corner ; she felt beleaguered , under attack from all sides . |
| 26 | Her disenchantment with the Foreign Office , already evident over Rhodesia and the EEC , came to a head during the Falklands War and she brought in Sir Anthony Parsons ( who had impressed her during the war when he was ambassador to the United Nations ) to advise on foreign affairs and appointed Roger Jackling to advise on defence . |
| 27 | Instead , he had dropped her outside the Half Moon in Portesham , exchanged with her a few platitudes about the working week to come , then driven home to Radipole in time for tea with his mother . |
| 28 | A kindly lorry driver on his way to North Wales , chatting of his own daughter and his home , had dropped her at the roundabout at the top of the Banbury Road at about lunch-time . |
| 29 | They had shopped round Belfast and she had teased her with the idea that this Parr was very rich , they had gone by train to Dublin and she had claimed he was ‘ hand in glove ’ with government circles there . |
| 30 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |