Example sentences of "had [verb] she [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church .
2 As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week .
3 Old friends who had forgotten her during the hard times .
4 Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm .
5 She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face .
6 But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton .
7 It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved …
8 But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building .
9 Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month .
10 Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot .
11 She made an effort to recall all he had told her during the previous ride , and paid attention to the way she sat , as well as to the positions of her hands , elbows , knees and heels .
12 To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen .
13 Two years after they had been married , Elinor had suddenly , mysteriously , developed a weakness in her legs , and Henry , who , equally mysteriously , in those days was n't trying to kill her , had hurried her to the local hospital where the doctors had diagnosed — wait for it — polyneuritis .
14 Would Eve be furious if Mother Francis heard the whole story of the lies , the unhappiness and the circumstances that had brought her to the other side of the city and now into a hospital bed ?
15 ‘ Who are you ? ’ the teenager asked after he had led her into the main concourse .
16 His 60-year-old wife called in police , claiming he had punched her during the early hours after the ceremony to install him as the 18th civic leader at Stockton .
17 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 .
18 Fate had put her in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man .
19 As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure .
20 If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him .
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