Example sentences of "[noun] she had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train was going eastwards , bound for a place called Hainault she had never heard of |
| 2 | But she was amazed when told how many calories she had just consumed . |
| 3 | At the centre of a triangle of twenty-two cards , within a rectilinear arch constructed from the rest , lay the single card she had consciously chosen to represent herself . |
| 4 | The baby was now cleaned up and Sarah looked down into the bluest eyes she had ever seen . |
| 5 | Ever since coming to Portugal she had stubbornly fought off her feelings of homesickness . |
| 6 | She thought of a tired analogy she had often heard , people in a crowded train compared to sardines in a tin . |
| 7 | Another example of Portia 's dishonesty is shown when she tests Bassanio with the ring she had just given to him . |
| 8 | Before she knew it Daisy was upstairs in the tidiest bedroom she had ever seen . |
| 9 | She had tried all the sane home remedies she had ever heard of to dislodge it . |
| 10 | And if the only deep emotion she had ever seen in him had been on the day of Ben Braithwaite 's engagement to Magda Tannenbaum , then she felt no right and no reason to be astonished at that . |
| 11 | When she sank to the seat she had recently vacated he paced about a little and then swung to face her , his dark eyes angry . |
| 12 | Turning over , she looked up at Damien 's dog-face , and then sat up quickly , trying to repair or disguise the ravages to her appearance caused by the emotional racking she had just endured . |
| 13 | For the first time in her life she realised just how little opposition she had ever had to face — in anything . |
| 14 | However , with youthful if foolish optimism she had proudly assured him that she would find a solution to the problem . |
| 15 | Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so . |
| 16 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 17 | And after raising the board and finding six washleather bags of sovereigns she had really believed him , and for only the second time she could remember in her life , she had cried . |
| 18 | But before the decision had been made Wilson was astonished to receive the speediest reply she had ever had from Ellen and quite the longest . |
| 19 | As far as Nutty was concerned it was the most deadly engagement she had ever contemplated , to be fought unto death . |
| 20 | The trick with the little fingers was the only thing she remembered from a piece she had once written on self-defence courses for women . |
| 21 | He was the best lover she had ever had : the most skilful , the most understanding , the most gentle , the most fierce . |
| 22 | After five years as the wife of a country rector with no financial worries she had suddenly become a homeless , penniless widow . |
| 23 | It was n't only the words she had just used to Marguerite . |
| 24 | In fact she 'd had a brief nap on the flight over and the adrenalin was racing round her body , making the possibility of sleep unlikely , but anything was better than sitting like a frightened child beside him , hoping against hope that he would finally melt and utter the sort of words she had once yearned to hear . |
| 25 | Ecstasy increased as Robyn looked deep into his eyes and heard the words she had hardly dared hoped for . |
| 26 | ‘ I came … ’ and suddenly she found herself speaking words she had never thought , ‘ … |
| 27 | She wanted to tell him that she loved him , but they were words she had never spoken to anyone . |
| 28 | The luxury she had only glimpsed so far was all a far cry from the fading Victorian splendour of St Margaret 's with its peeling paintwork and under-staffed , overworked departments . |
| 29 | Then she poured out in detail the humiliation she had recently suffered , and at last she sighed deeply and said , ‘ You 've caught me at my weakest , but I 'm gradually pulling myself together . ’ |
| 30 | In a single school term she had once sent to private sanatoriums as many as four boys and two girls with a weakness of the lungs . |