Example sentences of "she had [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 20–6 Mrs McIver , wife of the Moderator , asked to be relieved of the duty of leader of praise which she had undertaken for the past two years . |
| 2 | It all went to show how far away she had grown from the life she had been used to lead ; and the marriage , of course , explained Papa 's sudden permission for her own . |
| 3 | But she talked about a boy she had loved in the war and who had been killed . |
| 4 | Of all the advice she had received from the other creatures , taking away the dog 's food was the only one , she decided in the end , that might have a chance of succeeding . |
| 5 | French was tough going for Anna , but she had ploughed through the correspondence of Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé , and Freud and Lawrence of Arabia . |
| 6 | After her swim she had sprawled in the hot sun to dry off naturally then dressed and lazily explored the lovely Mediterranean gardens . |
| 7 | He had assumed , discriminated , made her feel as if she had to apologise for the way she lived her life , when he knew nothing , nothing of her circumstances or her reasons . |
| 8 | She rummaged through the assorted pile , looking for her new lipstick and perfume , and spotted the mail which she had collected from the postman first thing , on her way to the shops . |
| 9 | By the time of her seventieth birthday she had served on the Board of Governors of the BBC , the Corporation 's General Advisory Council , the Arts Council and the British Council and their respective literary committees , to say nothing of her work with such organizations as the Royal Society of Literature . |
| 10 | Altogether she had served on the committee for 11 years . |
| 11 | Since the autumn of 1990 she had served on the board where she co-ordinated the work of Treuhand 's 15 regional offices . |
| 12 | Squatting in front of the fire door , Jess battled with a little pyramid of dried hay and sticks she had built under the copper . |
| 13 | Rose knew that she had built on the foundations well and truly laid by Grandpa . |
| 14 | She was buried under the pavilion she had built in the Roshanara Gardens . |
| 15 | For almost a month she had remained in the house , eating and sleeping and sitting , submitting to Lyddy 's hairbrush , practising her daily ration at the piano , performing her daily ration upon tapestry canvas , running endless little errands for Aunt Emily , trying to make her handwriting more ladylike , her movements more graceful . |
| 16 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 17 | Of course , the fourteen years since she had moved into the Bayswater house had not been years of unremitting misery and depression . |
| 18 | Miss Honey did just that , and within a couple of weeks she had moved into The Red House , the very place in which she had been brought up and where luckily all the family furniture and pictures were still around . |
| 19 | One woman , writing to a relative at the Front on the day of the invasion itself , said she had been ‘ speechless ’ as , wholly unawares , she had turned on the radio and caught Hitler 's proclamation about the campaign in the east . |
| 20 | At eleven o'clock she had turned on the wireless to hear the old man tell them they were at war with Germany . |
| 21 | If so , she had prepared for the event more thoroughly than he could ever have imagined . |
| 22 | She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards . |
| 23 | She remembered again the scene she had recalled at the clinic . |
| 24 | He went yet again in 1801 , by then she had altered from the time when she had ‘ full eyes , vermillion lips , and cheeks like lillies ’ to a ‘ bulky wife of a farmer , blessed with much good humour and a ready utterance . ’ |
| 25 | She had detoured through the town 's central square on the way home and had sat down on a bench , raising her head to the trees . |
| 26 | The details recalled by Carol during the regression ( and which she continued to remember afterwards ) tallied precisely with those she had given to the police on the night the rape had occurred . |
| 27 | Thus , Barker ( 1984 ) , in her study of the Moonies , gave a questionnaire similar to that which she had given to the Moonies to a group of people who were matched with the Moonies with respect to sex , age , and background . |
| 28 | June Bascombe having given her report as Society Chairman thanked Kay Evans for the invaluable support she had given to the Society for so many years and presented her with a book token . |
| 29 | Being cradled against her mother 's soft warm body , Dot tried to feel like a baby , to remember what she had seen through the crack in the double doors as Gloria had cradled Baby against her while the nurses gathered round with protective outstretched arms . |
| 30 | Some were recognisably of those she had seen through the windows . |