Example sentences of "[adv] she had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liza , while delighted at last to be in the company of Freddie Nash for so long a stretch , was nevertheless sorry to have to share him with this senior fellow officer , however much she had hitherto enjoyed driving Brigadier Smithson . |
| 2 | She had felt much the same herself of late , restless , needing to work off that restlessness , only she had n't had the same opportunities to indulge herself . |
| 3 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 4 | In the court below she had also alleged that her husband was acting not only on his own behalf but as agent for the bank in obtaining her consent , that the bank was negligent and that there had been material misrepresentation , although the latter allegation was not pursued . |
| 5 | Hari rubbed her hand over her eyes , it had been a strange day , an eventful one in which she had quite clearly made an enemy but perhaps she had also made a friend of Edward Morris . |
| 6 | Perhaps she had scarcely heard them , or had taken them as a mere mechanical rejoinder to her own ‘ Do n't hate me ’ . |
| 7 | Perhaps she had simply had enough . |
| 8 | Patiently , he repeated , as though perhaps she had not heard : ‘ I thought it would n't matter to anyone , now the children are grown up . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps she had already compromised herself beyond recall by accepting the invitation . |
| 10 | Perhaps she had often had to put up this kind of defence Ianthe thought . |
| 11 | Perhaps she had better make a bolt for it . |
| 12 | She had slipped into doing no work for some days , would he look at it , please , as a kind of holiday — after all she had not had one since they had started on the course — she hoped she would be able to do better again next week . |
| 13 | Maybe the women in Guido 's life were rather more accustomed to red silk nightdresses with plunging necklines and the sides split halfway up the thigh , but personally she had never possessed anything quite so racy . |
| 14 | So she had not misunderstood , she had not misheard . |
| 15 | So she had n't mentioned Gilbert 's phone call about Amy being alive on Saturday evening or Amy 's talk of a box . |
| 16 | And in doing so she had nearly lost her balance , and he was heaping coals of fire on her head by holding her up . |
| 17 | This was the first she had heard of it , for while Constance was away she had not felt able to accommodate the horrors revealed in the local rag and had read only the advertisements and the page called ‘ Eating Out ’ . |
| 18 | Admittedly she had not envisaged opposition , but she must not let that discourage her . |
| 19 | Admittedly she had never got around to telling him that the invitation was off . |
| 20 | Somehow she had not imagined her homecoming quite like this . |
| 21 | Although , two years ago , Vitor had shared his life with Celeste , a willowy model , somehow she had never imagined they would marry . |
| 22 | It was ridiculous , but somehow she had never overcome a resistance to working with children . |
| 23 | Of course , she had come up against death , or the prospect of it , many times in the course of her work , but somehow she had never acquired the sort of immunity against emotional involvement , that almost instinctive shutting off , as so many of her colleagues had seemed to do . |
| 24 | He did n't think she threw knives these days and mercifully she had n't sung ‘ The Cowboys ' Christmas party ’ since their time in Chelsea . |
| 25 | She was vaguely aware of the irony of seeking safety from the man who threatened a danger far greater than any she had ever faced , but she pressed closer — needing him , wanting him , longing for him to hold her forever . |
| 26 | Dora , kind-hearted even if disapproving , had promised to make a soufflé for dinner , which Alexandra had assured Aunt Emily would be superior to any she had ever tasted before . |
| 27 | Still she had not reached the end of the dock . |
| 28 | For once she had n't meant to be provocative , but Fen swore explosively and rage such as she had never seen filled his dark eyes . |
| 29 | Only yesterday she had n't cared a farthing for the woman . |
| 30 | Yesterday she had n't had a chance to look properly . |