Example sentences of "had she ever " in BNC.

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1 Nor had she ever seen her mother expose her breasts or even legs , at home .
2 In no way had she ever been prepared for the life she was now expected to lead and Charles had some difficulty in understanding her feelings .
3 She herself had been named as wearing a white robe — and was asked had she ever done so .
4 With the lack of air , the smells , the unrestrained vomiting of a woman in the top bunk ( why had she ever thought they were lucky to get a bottom bunk ? ) it took real hunger and a strong stomach to face food .
5 When had she ever shown him pity ?
6 Why had she ever come to town to get herself an education ?
7 Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston .
8 In no other household had she ever seen a slop basin , and she hated to see an eccentricity erected into a symbol of the traditionally correct .
9 Nor had she ever seen such a dress on anyone over the age of thirty , but seeing it , she had to admit that it did not even look bizarre : it was a pale purple smock , waistless and bustless , with long , much-buttoned sleeves , and yet it managed to give only the faintest , most delicate air of Bohemia .
10 Until the 1982 health service dispute , she 'd never been involved in a trade union , nor had she ever gone to any meetings about anything .
11 Ruth had to look away , ashamed ; what had she ever done for Fand , except break that promise to her ?
12 Nowhere in her wildest nightmares had she ever imagined anything like this !
13 When had she ever cared and why did she care so sharply now ?
14 Nor had she ever come home footsore , as she surely must had she been quartering the city in the fashion she claimed .
15 At no time had she ever felt that Gordon was perverted .
16 Had she ever been so tired in her life before ?
17 Had she ever felt so brittle and so cold ?
18 Had she ever really meant anything to him ?
19 Nevertheless as a woman , a foreigner and a usurper , Catherine was never in a position to dispense with the backing of the landowning class in Russia even had she ever dreamed of doing so .
20 Why had she ever got involved in that slanging match in the first place ? she wondered with a dark surge of anger .
21 She was not frigid , but nor had she ever been a slave to purely carnal temptations ; because she had always placed a higher value on mental and emotional stimulation than on physical .
22 Only what courtesy had she ever given him ? she wondered miserably .
23 Had she ever loved or been loved ? he wondered .
24 He did n't look very happy , but then , when had she ever seen him look anything except cool or irritable , or arrogantly amused ?
25 Why had she ever opened that letter ?
26 When had she ever had any influence over Guido ?
27 How on earth had she ever got herself into such a mess ?
28 Why , oh , why had she ever started this ?
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