Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had thrown up some very challenging cross-references in its time , and she was at the moment pursuing a connection between the nature of quattrocento pigmentation and lichenology as a method of dating the antiquity of landscape : a gratifyingly pointless and therefore pure pursuit , which enabled her mind to wander in the direction of Italy and to hover about the abstraction of a particular shade of green-blue which she had noted in many a painted Italian scene as well as in the lichens of ancient English woodland . |
| 2 | But she looked down through the glass skylight and recognised in Maggie 's cropped hair and long white body the same contours that she had seen in that other virgin warrior whom she had inspired into battle . |
| 3 | She was as much their victim as the naked flesh she had seen in that bleak vision had been victim to the flail . |
| 4 | It went pop , and Signe leaned forward into the candlelight so that all the customers could see her , and sipped at the champagne and narrowed her eyes at me in a gesture of passion that she had seen in some bad film . |
| 5 | She had lived in this flat for two years now , working as a secretary in the City , recovering from her life as a war victim , wanting only peace and freedom from her jealous , possessive father and her jealous , possessive uncle . |
| 6 | But what was totally unfamiliar was the athleticism and poised stage presence she had achieved in such a short time . |
| 7 | She said it had prompted more real conversation between them than she had achieved in all their previous encounters . |
| 8 | Elizabeth reported that she had heard in such a place : ‘ Long time , no see , old boy , what 's your poison ? ’ |
| 9 | Many had been the voyages of discovery she had made in this — the most powerful spacecraft that had never been built , and never will be . |
| 10 | And she longed to feel him wrap his arms protectively around her again — she wanted to feel safe the way she had done in those brief moments on the terrace the other evening when for one miraculous instant she had believed there was something real between them . |
| 11 | Nora was relieved at this return of monetary caution ; it supplied the motif she had missed in all the previous talk . |
| 12 | From some dim recess of her mind came the words of a Breton fisherman 's prayer , which she had read in some book . |
| 13 | They swore that they had turned her down at first , but that she had behaved in such a bold manner — sitting on their laps , kissing them and fingering her body — that they could not hold back any longer . |
| 14 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 15 | Once she suddenly landed up in hospital for what was not an emergency ; several times she had found herself in a new home ; and on one occasion she had arrived in another country with a new ‘ father ’ — all without warning or previous explanation . |
| 16 | There was , too , the problem of the discrepancies she had found in those ledgers . |
| 17 | Eventually the experience might have to be repeated , in her own defence , but she could not hope to find much more in it than she had found in this first venture . |
| 18 | For she had known in that instant that this dark-haired man before her was destined to leave his mark on her soul . |
| 19 | She had gulped in this exciting sense of heightened perception with the wind and rain , as soon as she found herself on the pavement outside the house . |
| 20 | Folasade felt she had changed in that having a baby had given her more confidence and put her on a more equal footing with her mother . |
| 21 | She had worked for Mair as his PA for the last three years and he knew her now no better than on that morning when she had sat in this same office being interviewed for the job . |
| 22 | It was only two days since she had sat in this same seat and dribbled raindrops everywhere . |