Example sentences of "[subord] she had [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her will declares that more than £219,000 should go to Cornell College , Mount Vernon , Iowa , in the U.S. , where she had studied English literature . |
| 2 | Her back knitted , but doubled over , for after the first weeks when she was laid on the ground from fear of hurting her raw flesh , she had preferred to lie in a hammock , where she had lain curved for weeks on end . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They had told her in hospital that the glass had cut into an artery and she had needed transfusions but although she had felt far from well this morning she was certainly feeling worse now . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Anxiously she hoped not , although she had had one or two uneasy moments about certain other guests who were not simply here to witness the ceremony like the gentlemen from the mill and the dressmakers , but would have to be entertained to champagne and bride-cake and all the other delicacies Mrs Drubb had prepared for them afterwards , at Frizingley Hall . |
| 9 | The hard bench under her was n't conducive to restful slumber either , although she had known worse beds . |
| 10 | In the middle of this strange house 's celebrations she felt much more of an outsider than she had done sitting on her own in her room . |
| 11 | He had tutted and twitched and tweaked , then proceeded to do more for her than she had thought possible . |
| 12 | Of course John , her husband , told Elizabeth that Ivy had been right about the fuse-boxes : they just had n't come to her notice , so she had to eat humble pie . |
| 13 | Once she had recovered full consciousness it became clear that she had entirely lost the power of speech . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The contract had been until the end of September when she could reapply for the job she had been turned down for , ‘ provided she had had sufficient experience nursing very sick children ’ , he said . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | But after spending more than £2,500 on a facelift and suffering a few weeks of looking and feeling like she had gone 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis , Fiona found that few people noticed any difference . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Susan did not answer at once ; in fact , she was silent for such a long time that Breeze , who could not see her face , wondered if she had fallen asleep . |
| 21 | ‘ Respect for the dead , ’ he said , speaking to Carrie quite angrily , as if she had questioned this action . |
| 22 | I gazed at her , thinking that if she had appeared gentler I might have ventured to say something to her on Victor 's behalf . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Luke was still staring at her as if she had gone mad . |
| 25 | Her father said she looked as if she had gone three rounds in the boxing ring . |
| 26 | Her husband , suffering in his own quite different way , looked at her as if she had gone crazy . |
| 27 | He believed Maureen would have mentioned such a story if she had heard one and he took the view that she had no proof whatsoever . |
| 28 | But if she had missed this one , she would be the laughing stock of her class . |
| 29 | ‘ She knew if she had attended one of the public services she would have been the centre of attention and the last thing she wanted was to be photographed as the woman alone . |
| 30 | This state she spontaneously pictured as if she had become small , about the size of a jar of marmalade ( this image appeared with a kind of authority ) and had put herself away in a small square recess in a wall , just large enough to hold her . |