Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She had heard of a German drug called Aslocillin which she thought could help and so she pulled every string to find a supply .
2 She had spoken of a rich businessman in London and a gentleman farmer in Sussex , both of whom were madly in love with her .
3 It was a bridesmaid 's dress , left over from her cousin 's wedding in Charters Towers last year , and she had not worn it since , but the brief glimpse she had had of the other female guests had told her that her more casual outfits would not do tonight amongst the Hamiltons ' sophisticated entourage .
4 Her real destination was Fleet Street and the offices of the weekly Clarion Cry , but she could hardly inform Dr Neil or Matey of that interesting fact — it did n't quite fit the sad picture which she had drawn of the friendless , abandoned orphan without employment — not that the money which she earned from the Clarion would have kept her .
5 The following evening Daphne asked her what she had thought of the young officer she had met at the Opera .
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