Example sentences of "[subord] she had [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He thought he would not care if she had in truth done so , although he knew it to have been unnecessary . |
2 | The allegation had been spoken so quietly that he doubted whether she had in fact heard it . |
3 | How could she think that when she had in fact entrammelled herself in terrible evil bonds , luxuriating even in her bondage ? |
4 | So down the wide staircase she goes , past the oak chest with its bowl of white roses on the half-landing , past the Albers squares , past the dim varnished portrait of a full-bosomed crimson gowned pearl-decked eighteenth-century woman who some take to be an ancestor , though she had in fact come with the house , down through the black and white tiled hall with its marble and gilt claw-legged table strewn with Christmas cards , gloves , and glossy free advertising magazines , and into the broad high first floor drawing-room , where sat Charles , drinking a gin and tonic , which she had expected , and talking to Esther and Alix , which she had not . |
5 | Gloria came every day , just as she had for Baby . |
6 | Tall , pretty , vivacious , with an eager and obvious appetite for every kind of experience , she fell in and out of love , as she had at school and college . |