Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole bar was up on its feet to watch even before she had finished laying down the opening phrases ; by the time she was into the full fury of the aria , with its demanding coloratura decorations , its elaborate breathing technique and its famous placing of the pauses , we were all applauding and whistling . |
| 2 | Before she had finished hanging out the clothes , there was a glorious double rainbow across the sky . |
| 3 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 4 | She had no idea how he knew Kattina was in police custody , or that she had agreed to take over the job . |
| 5 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 6 | ‘ So Miss Morgan would have got the lion 's share of the other two hundred thousand even if she had agreed to break up the trust ? |
| 7 | It had been painful to watch her struggle for her self-respect , but she had managed to ward off the threatened nervous breakdown . |