Example sentences of "she had [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembered again the scene she had recalled at the clinic . |
| 2 | Although she had lived at the farm since she was ten and was accepted as one of the family , she rarely took part in family discussions . |
| 3 | The following evening Daphne asked her what she had thought of the young officer she had met at the Opera . |
| 4 | Lydia had rung in to say she was chasing a story in the Lake District , though everyone knew that what she was really chasing was the ravaged-looking thriller writer she had met at the launch of his last book and slept with the very same night . |
| 5 | She had wept at the death of her father , but for her mother she felt no grief . |
| 6 | The closeness of the Anglo-American special relationship during the Second World War boded well for a continuing post-war partnership , in which Britain would be able to influence US policy in a mutually beneficial way ; and latent Soviet hostility , which became apparent in London sooner than in Washington , was lessened by the assumed technological backwardness of Russia , and by the devastation she had suffered at the hands of the Germans . |
| 7 | Mona had recovered from whatever embarrassment she had felt at the Eliot knife becoming common knowledge , and said crisply : ‘ I ca n't believe that 's true about Pascoe , Alex . ’ |
| 8 | She had felt at the time that he was ‘ pretty borderline for special school ’ . |
| 9 | She started to wish that she had stayed at the table . |
| 10 | She had stayed at the baths a long time , probably getting a chill , but worst of all no-one would testify that the water in the pool had had a proper dose of chlorine . |
| 11 | that 's right , erm she had said at the time when they had raised all this money that er mostly gon na be spent on erm |
| 12 | Ingrid was in fact twenty-nine , which was young compared with Gesner , but not young for a dancer and she found the routines rather a strain , especially when she had to sing at the end of them . |
| 13 | Despite what had happened between them , because it had been what she had wanted at the time and because Rune had been a generous and not over-demanding lover , and because she loved him , her own sense of self-esteem had remained whole . |
| 14 | She had waited at the beech tree until the sky began to darken and the sudden , distant roar of aircraft engines told her that soon the bombers would be flying again . |
| 15 | She had shuddered at the thought of trying to explain her feelings to her parents and her sister , but then David 's heartless implication that Jennifer was n't worth her concern had shocked her beyond measure . |
| 16 | But in her relief Nenna forgot the quiet reasonable remarks which she had rehearsed at the bus stops , and in the buses , all the way to Stoke Newington . |
| 17 | They went to considerable lengths to remove all traces of her from the offices and rooms she had used at the Palace . |
| 18 | A cold wind had picked up since she had arrived at the bar and she rubbed her arms quickly before picking her way through a sea of discarded newspaper to a metal drum and ducked down behind it , her eyes riveted on the door . |
| 19 | She thought she might even be able to get a good night 's sleep for the first time since she had arrived at the house . |
| 20 | There was a glass-fronted mahogany cupboard where Ellen insisted on keeping Bernard 's family photographs , which she had found at the bottom of a suitcase . |
| 21 | It looked to Peter like the gin and tonics she had sunk at the bar earlier that evening had gone straight to her head . |
| 22 | For five years she had worked at the Ashmolean before moving across the street to The Randolph ; and for the latter part of that time she had actually worked for Dr Kemp , amongst others . |
| 23 | Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do |
| 24 | In France the system was much more centralized , and it might be that the stiffness of the Napoleonic system was one reason why France had lost to Germany the prominent place she had had at the beginning of the century when that system was set up . |
| 25 | Kopp testified that she had thought at the time that the information was based on " rumours from banking circles " . |
| 26 | At the time she had laughed at the observation , but was n't that what she was doing now ? |
| 27 | So many times she had helped at the scene of an accident and felt the same need to be with people afterwards , just to be sure , as he said , that she was still alive . |
| 28 | Perhaps she had fled at the news of my coming . |
| 29 | She had to look at the facts and analyse them , then draw the right conclusions . |
| 30 | She hoped his maps were more up to date and accurate than the one she had bought at the newsstand . |