Example sentences of "she had [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afraid lest she had revealed too much , she added quickly , ‘ Tell me about your visit to Maythorpe House . ’ |
| 2 | It made her feel strong , invincible almost , and just a tiny bit as if she had drunk too much wine . |
| 3 | She was beginning to be afraid , in fact , that she had drunk too much . |
| 4 | She had drunk very little , a small glass of wine while they were eating and another ten minutes before they came in . |
| 5 | She must have passed out , but then she had drunk so little . |
| 6 | She ran , with his voice , that deep and beautiful voice she had loved so much , following her along the beach , as though it mocked her . |
| 7 | Feeling thoroughly bewildered , hardly able to believe she had caused so much trouble without even knowing why , she picked up Gwen Bear and hugged her warm , furry body to her for comfort . |
| 8 | She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's . |
| 9 | Another pressing reason for leaving was that Jeanne Hébuterne had just discovered that she was pregnant and she had confessed as much to her mother . |
| 10 | Ann Butler was unwilling to admit that she had dozed away most of the afternoon by the fire . |
| 11 | Loretta was aware that she had consumed rather more Rioja than she had intended , certainly enough to make her glad that Bridget was driving . |
| 12 | She had prepared so many ways of telling him how accidental it had been , how only the thought that he was safe in France had made her bold enough . |
| 13 | She had given up all hope of ever bringing Oreste over . |
| 14 | She had given up all idea of exercising any power over fate . |
| 15 | But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered . |
| 16 | For she had seen little enough evidence of it in her life so far . |
| 17 | She had spoken stiffly , knowing she did , and she had seen how this wounded . |
| 18 | She had seen too many ghost skulls , and all under the faces of people who were now dead . |
| 19 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 20 | She had seen so little of this grandchild . |
| 21 | She had seen very little of Matthew these last few weeks since the dinner party Jenny had invited him to . |
| 22 | She had lived almost half her life amid violence . |
| 23 | And she had so perfected this technique of politely disappearing , that she had to live almost half her life before she came to realize that she had almost disappeared to her own self ! |
| 24 | She knew that the fussy , frilly bridal gown did not suit her but had accepted it , as she had accepted so much else in her life , for her mother 's sake . |
| 25 | She had travelled overnight all the way from Scotland , just for a few hours one Saturday . |
| 26 | She had achieved this much simply by courage ; her mouth was screwed up , there was no pleasure in it . |
| 27 | She had shuffled forward several places when two soldiers entered carrying a metal milk churn . |
| 28 | Angy had moved in an aura of musk and here it was , clinging to the papers she had handled so many times . |
| 29 | In one blinding flash then , she had realised how much she had actually given up for Paul in a futile attempt to avert his jealous outbursts — friends , family , social life , even smiling … |
| 30 | When she died ( about 1925 ) , she left instructions in her Will for her body to be buried in this green paradise about which she had heard so much , and yet which she had never visited except in her dreams . |