Example sentences of "[vb past] she had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself .
2 And in the pitch black , it seemed she had some sort of body after all ; distantly she could sense hands feeling their way , feet stumbling .
3 Left to her own devices , Lucy wondered what she should do next , then realised she had little option but to wait until she ran into Silas .
4 But when the prince reminded her — oh , so gently — of the deception practised upon his royal parents on Twelfth Night , Anne realized she had little choice .
5 He claimed she had salted money away in Brazil , where she fled briefly before returning to be arrested , using Liberian companies and bank accounts in Monaco and Luxemburg .
6 When this happened she had one option ; there was only one other perch available : my fist .
7 A post mortem showed she had 55 injuries , including broken ribs and bruises to head , neck and body .
8 so she 's still needed , I think she bought a three bedroomed house which meant she had two girls two girls and a boy , she had three children .
9 She unpinned her veil , and Anne saw she had different-coloured eyes , one blue , one hazel .
10 At 22 , Lottie felt she had few qualifications for such a sensitive job , but after his time with the Kindertransporte Freddie was more confident .
11 She had an odd , idiosyncratic way of looking at things — he felt she had some standards which he was n't familiar with , against which she matched the things they said .
12 With a further three she felt she had sufficient evidence to suggest that she could have supported the client at home but was overruled by others .
13 I knew she had psychic gifts , but I could not work out how she was so clued in to this film .
14 It was obvious that they , too , had realised what a professional job it was , something reflected in their searching questions as to whether she thought she had any enemies .
15 Her first step was to leave the kitchen exactly as he left it ; if he thought she had any intention of clearing his mess up behind him , then Luther was very much mistaken .
16 Then the woman took a paper bag out and I thought she had some sweets and might give one to me .
17 From her expression , it appeared she had little faith that this august personage would oblige .
18 He denied forcing the teenager to go with him in a car and said she had many chances to leave him .
19 Sid Walcott , 49 , said she had shouting matches with her boyfriend , the children 's father .
20 They said she had pulmonary embolism and 7 days later , she died .
21 She said she had bad dreams all the time . ’
22 aye , she said she had some chicken
23 He picked her up in his car after Mrs Dean said she had some news from his ex-wife Debbie , Geoffrey Dean 's sister and a former beauty queen .
24 And when Mrs Knight said she had some costume jewellery in the house he followed her straight into her bedroom where he started going through her drawers .
25 He loved his little daughter , but he wished she had less energy .
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