Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the single ecstasy dose , she believed she had drunk only a glass of wine that night . |
| 2 | Even 4 September seemed an age ago now , part of a deluded past when she had believed her abduction was a simple crime committed for gain , when she had thought her release was imminent , her restoration to the pampered life she had led merely a matter of time and money . |
| 3 | Having spent hours daydreaming about Portugal and Dom João , she had given scarcely a thought to the alternative . |
| 4 | She knew that , without meaning to , she had given away a lot of her life and thought , and wished she had not . |
| 5 | But sometimes she had seen just a glimpse , a fragment , of an unknown person , deep and inward-looking , complex , full of contradictions . |
| 6 | Ellie tried to imagine how her mother must have felt as she had left Ireland by boat , to sail the Atlantic and marry a man she had met only a handful of times . |
| 7 | She had assumed rather a lot , it seemed — or perhaps Caro had deliberately misled her ? |
| 8 | Sometimes , as Harriet went about her days , inwardly sorrowing but outwardly self-controlled , she felt as if she had lost both a husband and a daughter . |
| 9 | She had lost nearly a stone in weight and her face looked somewhat drawn , but she laughed a lot , especially when Willi was around . |
| 10 | She had taken only a couple of steps when in her haste she missed her footing . |