Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 2 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 3 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 4 | The intention had been to brand her as a ‘ hoarder ’ as well as the ‘ milk snatcher ’ , but most of us thought this seemed an eminently sensible thing for her to have done . |
| 5 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 6 | His original plan had been to sell her at the Sonepur Mela in Bihar , the world 's largest animal fair and their final destination . |
| 7 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 8 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 9 | He had been watching her without a flicker of expression . |
| 10 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 11 | Later , on their way home , Katherine suddenly realized what it was that had been troubling her throughout the evening . |
| 12 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 13 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |