Example sentences of "[noun pl] she had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was amazed when told how many calories she had just consumed . |
| 2 | The baby was now cleaned up and Sarah looked down into the bluest eyes she had ever seen . |
| 3 | She had tried all the sane home remedies she had ever heard of to dislodge it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After five years as the wife of a country rector with no financial worries she had suddenly become a homeless , penniless widow . |
| 7 | It was n't only the words she had just used to Marguerite . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ecstasy increased as Robyn looked deep into his eyes and heard the words she had hardly dared hoped for . |
| 10 | ‘ I came … ’ and suddenly she found herself speaking words she had never thought , ‘ … |
| 11 | She wanted to tell him that she loved him , but they were words she had never spoken to anyone . |
| 12 | She planted the fruit trees and bushes she had always wanted , made her own bread , and experimented with such things as parsley jelly and mint tea , all to her heart 's content . |
| 13 | His body was tense , as was hers , yet they did n't move , only their mouths touched and they exchanged soft , drugging kisses that to Hilary generated the most exciting sensations she had ever experienced . |
| 14 | ‘ I rather think , ’ said the Archdeacon detachedly , ‘ that for the last couple of months she had merely visited . ’ |
| 15 | Unlocking the door , she put her meal on the bench and donned the old smock she wore for working , then settled to sanding and smoothing the shapes she had already carved . |
| 16 | She wondered how many other such eagles she had blindly passed . |
| 17 | And there , over the tops of the trees that grew on falling ground to their north , there on the other side of the valley was one of the liveliest country houses she had ever seen . |
| 18 | I must admit , I ca n't claim it was love at first sight , but within a couple of hours she had firmly established herself in my affections , ’ laughed Delia . |
| 19 | But whatever talents she had once had , she had now turned ferociously against them , whereas her husband did still pay a curious self-willed homage to the intellectual virtues ; he possessed an 1895 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica which he would , from time to time , read . |
| 20 | In their four meetings she had never questioned him about his job , had seldom mentioned the power station except , as on this afternoon , to complain half seriously that it spoilt the view . |
| 21 | AU these rules she had already broken tonight . |
| 22 | During the course of this session , I repeatedly reminded her of the fact that she was seeing something which had happened some time ago and that time had proved her recovery to be complete — something which had been born out by the numerous examinations and X-rays she had since undergone . |
| 23 | Excited , — perhaps , but more contented , happy to let his hand range soft across her breasts or rest on the inside of her thigh , protected by the trousers she had deliberately worn . |
| 24 | For two days she had surreptitiously watched the gateway of the magnificent house from the cover of a plane tree on the other side of the road . |
| 25 | In all her born days she had never heard anything like it . |
| 26 | Spirited she was , in those days , and she played one boy off against another , teasing , bold , louche , at times wildly immodest , shocking , provoking , drooping a ciggy from her wide wicked lip , dropping her blouse from bare shoulders , playing cards for forfeits , egging them on to experiment with Ouija , inventing naughty messages from the spirit world : how had she known these things , what models had she copied from films she had never seen , what spirit spoke through her , informing her impatient flesh ? |
| 27 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
| 28 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 29 | They took her to a small , perfect restaurant , where she had never been before , and fed her on soup and fish and meat and cheese , all of a quality and in quantities she had only dreamed of during the war . |
| 30 | The first thing she understood was the plain and simple reason for those negative feelings she had originally experienced on seeing how well her daughter and Alexander got on together . |