Example sentences of "[adv] she had [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
| 2 | Perhaps she had suffered a small fit after all , or could it have been a touch of fever ? |
| 3 | Perhaps she had allowed a horror of Morpurgo 's appearance to bias her judgement . |
| 4 | She had told him then that her body was all she had to offer a man . |
| 5 | With the power of her eyes alone she had compelled a glass of water to tip and spill its contents over the horrible Headmistress , and anybody who could do that could do anything . |
| 6 | What I did n't know was that a few months before we started to work together she had written a proposal to the Thai government to start a ‘ machine knitting project ’ in one of her districts . |
| 7 | Tonight she had discovered a new side to herself . |
| 8 | He might be a roaring flirt of the first water , but already she had formed a solid impression that , whatever else Lubor Ondrus might be , he was most loyal to his employer . |
| 9 | Already she had put a little distance between them ! |
| 10 | It seemed that she had been here years , and already she had driven a wedge between her and Ben . |
| 11 | But if she was to understand , somehow she had to get a clear picture . |
| 12 | On the wall outside she had fixed a large notice which clearly indicated that here was the shop , and for someone to miss it they would need to be exceedingly short-sighted — or dozy . |
| 13 | Almost the first time ever she had volunteered a greeting . |
| 14 | A WOMAN told an Old Bailey jury yesterday she had broken a 30-year silence about sexual abuse by her step-father to protect a young girl . |
| 15 | An hour later she had ordered a taxi and Paige had waved her goodbye in some bemusement . |
| 16 | Probably she had found a sufficient stock of unused paper in the attic — yellowed enough with age to carry conviction . |
| 17 | Now she had become a pensioner she had been able to give up work as a midwife , and she spent much of her time on her allotment : |
| 18 | Now she had developed a self-assurance and experience which allowed her to perform on the public stage . |
| 19 | If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here . |
| 20 | She reached to the gap between back and seat where years ago she had stuffed a cushion that made all the difference to that small problem with her spine . |
| 21 | She told the audience how she had seen a new state-of-the-art ambulance which was only for use by private patients but staffed and paid for by the NHS . |
| 22 | How she had survived a nurse 's training and remained shy was beyond me , but the fact remained she had . |
| 23 | He recalled how she had given a great deal of help to the group of residents who in 1981 formed Project ‘ 81 — now the Hampshire Centre for Independent Living — which developed a structure to enable disabled people to leave residential care and live in the community . |
| 24 | Thinking back over the past year , a wasted year , a year out of her life , she found it quite incomprehensible now to understand how she had allowed a no-good rat like Ryan to almost destroy her . |
| 25 | About three weeks ago , I was told by a voluntary worker for the homeless how she had found a 15-year-old girl , five months pregnant , sleeping on the concrete steps of a doorway in Charing Cross . |
| 26 | By then she had acquired a distinctive Geordie accent and she was upset when her friends at school teased her about her rounded vowels and up and down , sing-song voice . |
| 27 | Yet an American girl came here , who 'd crossed the mountains , and there she had seen a teeny bearded man wearing a black serge suit . |
| 28 | There she had arranged a little altar , flowers and candles . |
| 29 | And that was why she had done a wrong thing , and that her thoughtlessness was selfish — a new idea for the spoilt and pampered girl McAllister had so recently been . |
| 30 | He would never understand why she had married a pompous clergyman . |