Example sentences of "she had [adv] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was his behaviour since their father 's death : odd little things she had scarcely noticed at the time but now they began to acquire significance in her mind . |
| 2 | Till this moment she had n't looked at the river . |
| 3 | Why , Alyssia thought , she had not jumped at the idea the moment it was suggested was anybody 's guess . |
| 4 | She said she had not complained at the paratroopers ' barracks because she knew she would be in trouble for being out of bounds . |
| 5 | She had desperately scrambled at the shiny sides of the toilet-bowl as she slid into the water but to no avail . |
| 6 | And , further wishing to appear brisk and fresh , as if she had simply alighted at the manor gates from her carriage , she allowed herself plenty of time for the familiar trudge down the cobbled hill of St Jude 's Street to the flat plain of St Jude 's Square and Market Square in the valley below and then up the other side , past the brewery and the iron foundry , through the maze of brewers ' and iron-workers ' cottages , to the manor , the skyline beyond it dominated by the squat , square bulk and the huge , foully belching chimney-stack of Dallam 's mill . |