Example sentences of "she had [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 On the twenty eight of September nineteen eighty eight she had a major operation on her left wrist .
2 During the campaign she had a high-profile role as the woman who was prepared to keep tight control over the purse strings and demonstrate Labour 's readiness for Government by rejecting demands from her Shadow Cabinet colleagues for excessive spending .
3 Most important of all , she had a healthy sense of humour .
4 She did not want to tell Connor that she had a private plan in mind ; it was such a very long shot , and might come to nothing .
5 She had a private word with Iain in the after cabin , then put her anorak on over her dress and went off to bed , escorted by Captain Freddie .
6 The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer .
7 She had a similar effect on people .
8 How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint .
9 She had a blazing row with Eddie and stormed out of the house , ’ Rachel replied .
10 Now , however , she had leisure to take in her surroundings , and she had a good look at an enormous house that she had barely glanced at before .
11 I kept Joanna in commission , her food locker in the small cuddy where I both cooked and slept well stocked with keeping-stores , and she had a good reserve of fuel for the outboard .
12 She had a good idea of what this revelation was going to be , and was even beginning to enjoy their discomfiture .
13 She had a good idea of what the envelope would contain , and she was already feeling faintly irritated .
14 ‘ But I would have guessed she had a good head for holding her drink .
15 The doctor had helped assess the problem because she had a good relationship with her patient and had documented all her injuries .
16 She had a good view of the hospital entrance , so she started her private game of guessing what the people were .
17 Like her mother , she had a good combination of practical shrewdness and strong faith .
18 She had a good career behind the counter in Ladies ' Separates , but no desire to become a spinster .
19 And she come here with these people from London , she had a good place with them , plenty of good food and everything .
20 She never missed writing to her parents though , and the family made sure she had a regular supply of correspondence and gifts .
21 She had a mental picture of Samuel Roberts ' fine , hard face .
22 A medical report estimated she had a mental age of seven years and nine months .
23 She was different , well informed and , still more attractive , she had a real enthusiasm for the idea of marketing .
24 The little reporter realized suddenly that she had a real story for her editor and went pale with fear as she remembered that lady 's ruthless slashing up of her last offering , the report of an insignificant wedding .
25 Chrissie knew who he was because she had a real background in screaming teeny bop stuff .
26 Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping .
27 " She had a certain style about her , " she says .
28 Esther was no beauty , but she had a certain handsomeness about her , a particular wickedness he had not seen in other women .
29 Instead , she set to stubbornly work her way through in alphabetical order , so that before long she had a small pile of pink order slips in front of her .
30 A few seasons back she had a small show at the now defunct 49th Parallel gallery but this is the first time New Yorkers will get to see works by this figurative painter in any profusion .
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