Example sentences of "[coord] she had [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that either the mother as donee of the power of attorney had possessed sufficient general understanding and capability to have satisfied herself regarding the purport and effect of the transfer document and had failed to do so , or she had lacked ordinary competence and capacity , in which case the defendant , as donor , could not be allowed to repudiate the transfer to an innocent third party ; that , if the case was that the defendant had failed to inform the donee of the power of attorney , that lack of care also precluded him from relying on her ignorance of the power ; and that , therefore , the fact that the mother had been tricked into signing the transfer document without reading it , was not sufficient to sustain a plea of non est factum ( post , p. 679A–F ) . |
| 2 | By the time she reached the hut her hair had turned white and she had gone dumb with grieving , so she could tell her husband nothing of what had happened . |
| 3 | And she had broken free with a scandalized exclamation : ‘ Damien ! |
| 4 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 5 | And she had seen those other women too . |
| 6 | Then poised above the shining city , among the burning stars , Fenna had paused , dropped one great wing , tilted over , tipped her away from his side and she had flown free . |
| 7 | Craig had been staying with her for some weeks now and she had grown used to seeing him there in her kitchen . |
| 8 | His jokes with her had started jamming , and she had grown steely and even gone through his pockets . |
| 9 | Two young men , superior artisans probably , out for a night on the town , dressed in an imitation of their betters , their brown bowlers tipped over their foreheads , their eyes searching the crowd for likely partners for a bit of fun , had attracted Rose 's attention , and she had made sure that she attracted theirs . |
| 10 | He remembered a girl he had known once who used to say ‘ franchement ’ whenever she meant ‘ frankly ’ — rather a soupy girl , and far from frank , but consoling all the same on despairing Sundays , and she had made beautiful casseroles . |
| 11 | It was their fence , and it was coming down , and she had pointed that out to Frederick , and she had known he would n't do anything about it , any more than he would buy himself new underpants . |
| 12 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 13 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 14 | She was disappointed at the lack of support given by the teachers and she had felt embarrassed by their absence . |
| 15 | She had been thinking of Mark and she had felt cold and lonely , so lonely … |
| 16 | John , her brother aged 6 years , was mother 's favourite and she had become concerned that her husband was undermining her authority with Jenny during the day when she was at home with her . |
| 17 | She said her name was Liz , she was a friend of the family , and she had done some nursing once , a long time ago , but gave it up to get married . |
| 18 | Once he had made a crown of poppies for her hair and a daisy chain for her neck , and she had danced all the way home , feeling like a princess . |
| 19 | And she had battered half of them . |
| 20 | She also wanted to put an end to any sexual intercourse with her husband , though formerly both he and she had had great enjoyment from it . |
| 21 | By the time a new battery had been fitted , and she had wasted some more minutes with a mechanic who appeared not to want to go home , it was twenty past six before Merrill reached her flat . |
| 22 | Two of the most daring had been observed in the garden by Miss Watson , the headmistress , who lived across the green at the school-house , and she had delivered dire warnings during assembly the next morning . |
| 23 | By nine she felt , knowing this to be illogical , that the news was stale and she had passed three foolish hours in ignorance of disaster or even , very occasionally , of something wonderful . |
| 24 | She said she had spoken to her the previous day and she had seemed normal . |
| 25 | How it had happened she did not know , but back there in New York he had begun to pursue her , and she had found ever-increasing opportunities to talk to him ; he was so gay and lively , quite unlike the rather stiff young men whom she met in New York and Newport society . |
| 26 | She was here at seven-thirty and she had walked all the way . |
| 27 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |
| 28 | The dream about Adam had distressed her , and she had spent most of the previous night awake thinking about him , about her own life and where she was going . |
| 29 | Her normally lucid style had slipped and she had forgotten huge chunks of the recent past . |
| 30 | His mother had said that it was all very well to mock but she had stood many long hours at auctions all over the city finding the right pieces . |