Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had drunk only perrier at the party , and eaten nothing . |
| 2 | She had given up meat . |
| 3 | One afternoon , after she had given up hope , stirring aïoli on the doorstep , Frederica heard the crunch of wheels on stones and saw the motorbike winding down the cliff with its two insect-heads swaying in harmony above it . |
| 4 | She had travelled somewhere way up north — Newcastle or something . |
| 5 | With a strength Isabel had not known she possessed she had beaten back panic and calmly taken down the rushlight , dividing the rushes into smaller bundles to conserve the light . |
| 6 | If she had needed further proof that he was without scruples or morals in his personal life , he had just given it to her . |
| 7 | She was thirty-nine now , and it was only in the past two years that she had put on weight . |
| 8 | It made her feel a little dowdy , as though she had taken up residence in the suburbs of morality . |
| 9 | And still Shiona had failed to pin down Jake , despite the fact that , out of desperation , she had taken up residence at his Edinburgh home . |
| 10 | Another empty day with none of the jobs she had carried out day after day for so long that filled her time with things she enjoyed . |