Example sentences of "[pron] she had [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |
| 2 | Nor could he avoid reminding Charlotte of the hopeful turn Colin 's case had taken — a turn to which she had made a significant contribution — while her niece 's plight seemed only to worsen by the day . |
| 3 | She had a sort of velvet cap , from which she had snipped a bit of veiling . |
| 4 | The elegantly shabby room in which she had found a haven was an oasis in the East End 's desert , which could be glimpsed through the small bow window . |
| 5 | On the day of the overdose , after her husband and daughter had gone to work , she had finished writing a suicide note which she had started a week before . |
| 6 | Approximately 100 people then took part in the business meeting when our President , Lady Braithwaite , opened the proceedings with many congratulations to the Society on the previous eventful year in which she had taken a deep interest . |
| 7 | All the knowledge she had came from her lessons in the village school , which she had left a year or two earlier . |
| 8 | A THEATRICAL lady doctor tripped up to me at a party in Covent Garden this week and told me she had phoned a film producer friend and asked how he was . |
| 9 | Between them she had made a decision based only on panic and no common sense . |
| 10 | She smiled as she remembered the quiet scholar with whom she had shared a love of books . |
| 11 | Scenes from the evening flashed before her eyes : the dignity of the old man to whom Ludovico had gently presented her and with whom she had performed a stately dance , delicately held in his wizened old arms ; the young men who had made a ring around her and Ludo before lifting them on to their shoulders and carrying them back to Santo Spirito ; the women who had caressed her blonde hair and whispered , ‘ Bella ! |
| 12 | At eighteen — the period of the mousseline de soie dress — she had found herself hanging around a certain area of Twickenham , where they were then living , in the hopes of encountering the doctor 's son , with whom she had had a strangled conversation at some social gathering . |
| 13 | She told him she had got a hundred and fifty pounds , gave him a hundred , and heard him sigh a little ; such a different sigh from that sharp escape of breath of the woman in the shop . |
| 14 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
| 15 | I told her she had to do a we have n't been there . |
| 16 | She was good fun to be with and easy to talk to , and in the short time he 'd known her she had shown a ready sense of humour . |
| 17 | The word cottage conjured up in his mind the Smiths ' dwelling ; but a few minutes later , when he saw what she had called a cottage , he realised it was far removed from the Smiths ' dwelling as Screehaugh had been , in that it was a substantially built house . |
| 18 | One of the members went one better by telling us she had made a shadow pleated skirt which , by mistake , was put into the ‘ whites ’ wash and finished up a quarter of its original size , ruined beyond restoration — so everyone though . |