Example sentences of "she had [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she had to do it the slow way . |
| 2 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 3 | She had given her a tiny dose of medicine just before the explosion , and now Julia closed her eyes . |
| 4 | She had given herself a fair amount of time to get to Luke 's , and if she left the motorway at the next junction and did n't hang around she 'd be only a little late at the most . |
| 5 | This was to be her special torture then : just when she had discovered what a selfish , callous , calculating person Mark was , everybody was going to try and sell him to her . |
| 6 | She had asked him a few Saturdays ago if everything was all right between them . |
| 7 | The second bullet followed almost immediately , this time in front of her , and she had to fling herself the last few feet , landing heavily against the side of the corrugated iron door . |
| 8 | She had made her a cool and sweet-smelling bed of grasses inside a circle of powder to keep away ants and other insects . |
| 9 | She had made it an attractive place , beautifully decorated with light paint , and furnished with old pieces picked up at auctions with taste and considerable knowledge of antiques . |
| 10 | She had done him a beautiful hand-painted one the year before with ‘ Lots of love ’ on it . |
| 11 | She had brought herself a new swimsuit but after she had changed she 'd stared critically at herself in the mirror in the changing-room . |
| 12 | But he had not even asked — she had found him a little unnerving . |
| 13 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
| 14 | She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all . |
| 15 | He turned on her eagerly and Maggie realised she had set herself an embarrassing trap and walked right into it . |
| 16 | For months , back home in Melbourne , she had wondered what The Big City on the other side of the world would look like . |
| 17 | She had thought it a foolproof notion , but had slipped up on detail , like so many . |
| 18 | Now , when Paul told her the truth , her first thought was that she wished she had got herself an extra gown , while she was at it ; in fact she had been unable conveniently to carry any more , or would have done so . |
| 19 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 20 | But she was n't feeling easy with him now , and as he pushed an easy-chair closer to her couch , and sat down opposite her , she had the uncanniest feeling that he was n't going to let her out of the room until she had told him every last bit of what there was to tell . |
| 21 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 22 | They were all in the kitchen where she had left them a few minutes earlier . |
| 23 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |
| 24 | She had bought him a new trilby with the tiniest of blue feathers tucked into the band at the crown . |
| 25 | Early in their walk she had handed him the usual tenpenny piece , and now she heard a faint tinkle and watched while he stuck his candle in the socket , and reached for the matches in their brass holder . |
| 26 | When he returned , bearing a brand new dress in a rich burgundy shade , she had shown him the blue one . |