Example sentences of "[conj] she had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caught in Berlin at the outbreak of war she was able to reach London , where she had already formed her own ballet company under Dandré 's management . |
| 2 | She pretended to search in the folds of her habit , where she had previously concealed the fox bag . |
| 3 | She wore riding clothes and her long dark hair hung loose where she had just unfastened it . |
| 4 | Her mother had picked her up bodily the night before and dragged her into her room where she had then thrown her on to her bed . |
| 5 | She tried to use Spacefleet hypno-techniques to block the remorse , but either they were n't that good or she had n't learned them well enough . |
| 6 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
| 7 | The court adjudged that , having requested access to a lawyer , a suspect could not then be questioned without the presence of a lawyer , even if he or she had already conferred with the lawyer . |
| 8 | Few staff actually felt involved , even in schools where the head thought that he or she had actively tried to promote staff participation . |
| 9 | ‘ When he came back he said he was going to make more money than he or she had ever dreamed of . |
| 10 | Yet , in 1989 , according to the FBI , only 15% of all murder victims were related to their killers ; 39% were ‘ acquainted ’ with their murderers , but this figure would include , say , a drug dealer killed by a fellow gang member , or even a police officer murdered by a suspect whom he or she had once arrested . |
| 11 | Seeing she had briefly outflanked him , she pressed her advantage . |
| 12 | Mrs Singh filled them in although she had already expressed alarm at the number of notes she was going to have to write to the school . |
| 13 | She knew all about Gesner — he 'd got a girl pregnant last year and everyone in the Company said he was appalling to the new leading lady , although she had n't noticed it herself . |
| 14 | Although she had n't said a word , he lifted his black head and , peering into her face , asked , ‘ What is it ? ’ |
| 15 | Half an hour later , she felt a little better although she had n't decided what to do . |
| 16 | Although she had n't seen him again , he was always in her thoughts . |
| 17 | Although she had n't expected to , she actually managed to sleep for a few hours that night . |
| 18 | She flushed the lavatory , although she had n't used it . |
| 19 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 20 | Although she had not realised it at the time , looking back she could see that her life at Mrs White 's had been quite lonely . |
| 21 | A large sculpture , primitive in nature and in texture , African she thought , although she had not cared to ask him , fearing he might expand rather more than she had bargained for on the origins of what she suspected to be a goddess of fertility . |
| 22 | In R v Hove Juvenile Court , ex pW [ 1989 ] FCR 286 , for example , the expert opinion of a child psychiatrist was admitted in evidence although she had not seen the child . |
| 23 | She had even pulled the door to — although she had not closed it tightly . |
| 24 | Although she had not bought the smoke ball from the Company , it was held that there was a contract between her and the Company , albeit not a contract of sale . |
| 25 | They laughed , although she had not meant it as a joke . |
| 26 | Melanie knew what she was waiting for although she had not told her . |
| 27 | Cleo had never , to her knowledge , seen a ghost , although she had often sensed their presence in the shadowed , tragedy-haunted alleys of the Burrows . |
| 28 | They finally came down on the side of 36-year-old Anne Bancroft , although she had seldom played comedy , having made her name in such powerful dramas as The Miracle Worker and The Pumpkin Eater . |
| 29 | However , she maintained the moral impetus of her early years , although she had quite cast off its derivations and turned her back upon its fraudulent source ; the narrow fervours and disapprovals were there , but their objects had subtly altered over the years . |
| 30 | Although she had occasionally missed a meal before and never heard it protest , it was as if her stomach was asking for food . |