Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] in her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had seen in her young days the island women carry brass bottomless bowls on their heads to support the old churns in which they delivered milk . |
| 2 | ‘ I love it , ’ she had said in her husky drawl , her eyes glowing . |
| 3 | It formally returned to Japan the sovereignty she had lost in her atomic-bombed defeat , and enabled her to recommence her ambitious ascent towards economic supremacy — a climb which , though frustrated and corrupted before , was this time and at last to culminate in her present astonishing success . |
| 4 | In spite of the squalor of her clothes she looked almost as superb as she had done in her ravishing French dress . |
| 5 | He was not a fool and he recognized that what came out when Therese opened her mouth was a unique sound that could , if she had continued in her youthful career , have taken her right up to the top , to the international opera houses of the world . |
| 6 | After a long pause , she nodded and the story emerged of a stillbirth she had experienced in her early twenties . |
| 7 | As she listened to the sweet voices of the children coming from the church , and thought of the pain she had experienced in her short life , tears came to her eyes . |