Example sentences of "[conj] she had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I would point out at this stage that I would never begin to treat a patient with physical symptoms of this sort unless he or she had first consulted their doctor and was able to tell me that no physical cause for the problem could be found . ) |
| 2 | But suppose now suppose I were a middle-aged to elderly teacher who had never come across dyslexia until recently and was now aware that he or she had dyslexic pupils , the first thing to do , I think , is to inform yourself . |
| 3 | There is also a strong sense of' learning' , in which the student identifies with the truth claim he or she is faced with , and can offer it ( for example , back to the consultant physician ) as something with which he or she had personal experience ( having had an opportunity to examine some patients ) . |
| 4 | The daily , reassuring visit from the patrolling doctor was no more — as if by merely walking the rounds he or she had some magic formula that made us safe . |
| 5 | Although she had little time to help organize the newspaper project , as she buzzed around discussing it with friends and jotting down ideas it began to get up steam . |
| 6 | Although she had pronounced likes and dislikes for the various members of her class she was perhaps the best teacher in the school , and at the end of four years she had hardly any failures in the final examinations . |
| 7 | Stevie might have tended to exaggerate , but although she had rich parents , she worked as a waitress in Los Angeles to support Lindsey , and they roughed it around a bit . |
| 8 | If he had guessed that she had prior knowledge , he was not prepared to say so . |
| 9 | Sally found that she had good abilities in this area . |
| 10 | It was this lack of independence which so appalled her , while at the same time she knew , when it came down to fundamentals , that she had such a vulnerable appendage permanently dependent on her . |
| 11 | I was surprised to find that she had such a rich and violent internal life and that all this was smouldering and seething away . |
| 12 | It was on a similar mission seven months earlier that she had first met Darren . |
| 13 | By the time the crème brulée was served , she realized that James was n't the gentle , sensitive , vulnerable charmer that she had first imagined but a crashing bore . |
| 14 | O'Keeffe made it clear that she defined her art strictly as self-expression and indicated that she had first begun her formal training at the Art Institute of Chicago . |
| 15 | She had made it clear to the woman that she had strong Nazi sympathies , and often attempted to talk about the war in the desert , but to no avail . |
| 16 | I was moved to see that she had absolute faith in my goodwill , for she took the bag without glancing at the contents . |
| 17 | Maria Iñes was dumpy and talkative ; Maria Teresa was dark and very like João , though not quite so good looking , and Maria de Graça was taller , plainer , and so intent upon winning herself a place in Heaven that she had little conversation for anyone apart from Padre Jorge , an oily man with plump little hands and a great anxiety to be first to agree with Dom João in everything he said . |
| 18 | He threw the handkerchief carelessly into a laundry basket , then before she knew what was happening , he was kissing the tips of her fingers , then her palms , then drawing her hands towards him so that she had little choice but to slide her arms around him and receive his kiss . |
| 19 | His voice sounded so matter-of-fact that she had little difficulty in ignoring the more flattering words . |
| 20 | You would then have the right to organise her work and most certainly you would see to it that she had little or no large-animal work . |
| 21 | Just before leaving the consulting room she knew that she had one thing left to do and it was important . |
| 22 | She wished that she had one of the dogs with her but both were with their master . |
| 23 | He noticed that she had one button of her blouse more than usual undone . |
| 24 | Prince Charles , a man who by his own admission fell in love easily , pressed his suit even though his advisers told him that she had other boyfriends . |
| 25 | How dared he think it , let alone say it , that she had other men to settle her bills ? |
| 26 | Rosie said , ‘ Er — um — ’ and Shelley guessed that she had other plans for Saturday . |
| 27 | She boasted that she had two bedrooms and a bathroom , which had been constructed from a third bedroom . |
| 28 | It is important to see her occasional contretemps with staff within the context of her relationship with Bernard ; almost everyone who worked with her was aware that she had two , sometimes quite distinct , sides . |
| 29 | She would take lunch at Gravetye Manor near East Grinstead ( a 3 out of 5 in the Good Food Guide ) where Peter Herbert , its owner , would see to it that she had two poached eggs on Bovril toast and a good , old-fashioned pudding . |
| 30 | He had taken no precautions during their love-making but she had assured him that she had that under control . |