Example sentences of "[subord] she had [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not told him exactly where she had got all the money that had been spent so freely around this house , but of course he guessed . |
| 2 | He had tackled her about Pascoe and , although she had reacted much as he 'd expected , perhaps she would think it over and do what he advised . |
| 3 | Although she had made some photocopies to study later , it was possible that Adam might be able to clear the matter up in a few moments . |
| 4 | She hoped her stepfather would be home late : although she had spent most of her life with him , she regretted that her mother had felt unable to exist as a single parent , and Camille still wished that he would prove unfaithful or die . |
| 5 | Most days she would , sooner or later , walk down the lawn to examine her plants and I learned to wait until she had done this before myself settling in the summer-house . |
| 6 | She was a pretty , rather fleshy blonde , who revelled in the bohemian life of Montparnasse and enjoyed hanging round artists , posing for them , helping them to buy paints and cigarettes , studying intermittently at the Sorbonne until she had spent most of her inheritance and could no longer afford to pay for tuition . |
| 7 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 8 | She began to feel young and amazingly pretty , like she had felt all those years ago when she had first emerged from the chrysalis of self-conscious adolescence to spread her butterfly wings . |
| 9 | ‘ Respect for the dead , ’ he said , speaking to Carrie quite angrily , as if she had questioned this action . |
| 10 | She knows that if she had pointed this out to William , and expressed her own wish to take child , and papers , to the Common , William would obligingly have offered to stay at home and chop carrots and peel potatoes and keep an eye on the lamb in the oven . |
| 11 | But if she had missed this one , she would be the laughing stock of her class . |
| 12 | If she had nurtured any hope of forgetting him one day in the future his lovemaking had banished that hope forever . |
| 13 | If she had entertained any doubts before , they had gone for ever . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose you must , ’ Rose said reluctantly , and Theda wondered if she had imagined all might be settled at once . |
| 15 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 16 | The content of what he said might have chilled her if she had harboured any desire to stay longer — which , she told herself fiercely , she most definitely did not . |
| 17 | If she had let this chance slip , she knew she would regret it for the rest of her life . |
| 18 | She glared at Evelyn as if she had committed some extraordinary prank . |
| 19 | If she had come all the way from London , the woman was hardly likely to turn her away . |
| 20 | He wondered suddenly if she had got any fun out of her marriage to Peter Dawson . |
| 21 | But this was untrue , for Minch had become quieter and more peaceful as the months had gone by , staring out over the Zoo with a mysterious tranquillity , as if she had found some contentment that eluded the others . |
| 22 | as if she had known this all along but had hoped something different . |
| 23 | She was a tall , blonde girl , smooth-skinned with wide-spaced , rather small eyes of an extraordinary deep blue , who would have been thought beautiful if she had shown more animation . |
| 24 | ‘ Even if she had stole some wine , ’ Rab said . |
| 25 | The Act also attempted to deal with the problem of the tendency of defence lawyers to pillory a woman if she had had any non-marital sexual experience . |
| 26 | If she had had any talent , if she had been born in another period and perhaps if her spirit had been lodged in the body of a man , she might just have been heroic . |
| 27 | If she had had any sense she would still be in London , planning her next social function with her friends , instead of slinking off to the south of France because she had felt claustrophobic , because she needed to formulate a way of telling her fiancé that their engagement was off . |
| 28 | She was not sure herself how much in earnest she was , at that stage ; and if she had had any other agreeable reading matter to fill up her evening , she might never have started on Aurae Phiala at all . |
| 29 | It was as well that she did because she had forfeited most of her private life for the sake of her chosen career . |
| 30 | She was unconscious because she had taken some sleeping pills . |