Example sentences of "had [verb] she [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away . |
| 2 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 3 | I had to carry her over the wall , can you imagine , to get her to my rooms . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had n't expected to be greeted with open arms , but the reception she 'd actually received had shaken her to the core . |
| 7 | And he had stopped her in the lobby once to enquire , ‘ How are things going ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
| 11 | She recalled the swift bruising kiss he had given her in the restaurant . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Simon , however , would n't hear of it , and had joined her in the kitchen to help with the dishes . |
| 14 | She did n't realise that Guy Sterne had joined her in the sitting-room until he spoke from behind her chair . |
| 15 | I had to isolate her from the rest . ’ |
| 16 | Therese had been studying them as soon as the Direktor had telephoned her with the news of the productions and her roles . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ace had caught her on the hop again . |
| 23 | He had rung her in the afternoon and suggested they met . |
| 24 | Scarlet was relieved , since Camille 's adolescent smile had reminded her of the expression on the face of some ancient , alien reptile . |
| 25 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
| 26 | Agnes had pushed her onto the bed . |
| 27 | Deborah Ford , 29 , said later that her husband had pushed her from the path of the shark . |
| 28 | Even with the whitewash skeleton painted on to him , Benny had no difficulty recognizing the serpentine man who had kidnapped her from the museum . |
| 29 | Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright . |
| 30 | She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck . |