Example sentences of "her [noun] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breeze spoke casually , giving no sign of the fact that her heart had missed a beat — as it often did nowadays , when Roger 's name was mentioned . |
| 2 | And her brother-in-law had put a piece of wood on the top |
| 3 | On 26 October the queen and her supporters had issued a proclamation at Bristol declaring that since the king had deserted the realm , presumably by fleeing to Glamorgan , Prince Edward was to be Reeper of the Realm , and the prince issued writs in his father 's name summoning parliament for 15 December . |
| 4 | She and her lover had paid a hitman to commit the murder . |
| 5 | Her bedroom had become a nest . |
| 6 | Afterwards her home had become a place of coldness , of ugly , hidden , unspoken emotions . |
| 7 | How could she , when her body had become a battleground for a crazy kind of chemistry ? |
| 8 | But her body had taken a battering . |
| 9 | It is natural that a mother should regard her child 's health as a matter of the highest importance ; but Judith Holt believed that the Almighty should also keep a watchful eye on a bank of which her husband had become a director . |
| 10 | Her husband had opened a bookshop to support her and their two children , but it was " imperative for her to work " at her old job as reader , " to tide them over for a year or two " . |
| 11 | But she thanked the Lord that Reverend Morey had n't become a Governor sooner , for then everyone would have known about Angel , and James 's plump and prissy wife might have discovered her husband had fathered a bastard . |
| 12 | He had visited the studio on and off through his time with Vanessa — he 'd even met Martine there on two occasions when her husband had cancelled a Luxembourg trip and she 'd been too heated to miss a liaison — but it was charmless and cheerless , and he 'd returned happily to the house in Wimpole Mews . |
| 13 | By some miracle her nose had escaped a battering . |
| 14 | She was n't disappointed at all , she told herself severely — it was just that her pride had taken a bit of a blow . |
| 15 | Her pride had taken a hell of a beating at his hands because he was treating her exactly as if she were a sometimes tiresome younger sister . |
| 16 | This lady informed me that she and her friend had consulted a man who claimed at that time to be the leading expert in the United States in the psychic determination of past lives . |
| 17 | It was just a tragedy that her friend had married a man whose birthday came under the same sign as her own . |
| 18 | Her flat had suffered a lot of damage in the autumn gales and some of her recent writing had been totally destroyed at the first-draft stage . |
| 19 | Her father had had a link with Italy . |
| 20 | There was plenty of salad stuff at least , her father had brought a lot with him . |
| 21 | OK , her relationship with her father had taken a dip since her mother 's death , but she still knew the man better than almost anyone else on earth . |
| 22 | She could n't tell him that it had aroused her ; that the smarting of her breasts and belly and buttocks had combined to generate an absurd pleasure ; that the gentle scourging of her flesh had stimulated a tide of salaciousness ; that she was enjoying it . |
| 23 | She in her turn had discovered a man who might be charismatic in public , but privately was one who was also ruthless , single-minded , and a loner , an attitude that disconcerted her , because she recognised similar traits in herself . |
| 24 | One of her friends had married a man with the same late-July birthday as his wife — and what a knock-out , drag-out marriage that had been ! |
| 25 | Now her voice had become a whisper . |
| 26 | Her hip had suffered a bruise that would heal , but it was feared that her knee and ankle could give trouble — possibly for the rest of her life . |
| 27 | Her shoulder had become a hump , hunched around a massive dull throb . |
| 28 | One of her schoolfriends had married a Bermudan and wrote in the most glowing terms about the life there . |
| 29 | No erm her Cheryl had to have a walk round in her sleep this morning cos |
| 30 | Madjit 's wife and two other members of her family had to smash a glass partition to escape the blaze . |