Example sentences of "she had got [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There he found the greatest novelty of all : a twenty-eight-day dial that showed the phases of the moon — at least , it had been the moon when Nora bought the watch but she had got a miniaturist to overpaint it with an enamel portrait of herself . |
| 2 | She had got a key to his room out of Dotty , as she had threatened . |
| 3 | She had got a lover ! |
| 4 | So far she had got no information and she had come dangerously near to paying the price . |
| 5 | Maureen said she had got the keys back and intended to try them in the desk , to see whether they were a duplicate set and her father 's complaints could have been justified . |
| 6 | So , only three days after she had got the sack , she caught a train — drawn by a diesel called Peter Pan — from Liverpool Street into Suffolk . |
| 7 | She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash . |
| 8 | " Are we Romanists then ? " she asked her mother , and her mother looked impatient and asked her where she had got the idea from . |
| 9 | But she looked back to her own childhood and wondered where she had got the idea that she knew what a normal family would be like . |
| 10 | After all her worrying she had got the answer she wanted within minutes . |
| 11 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 12 | She had been a clerk-receptionist phone-answerer-teamaker and she had got the job through her uncle Bob who was as near to being a friend of Thomas Walby 's as it was possible to be . |
| 13 | A month later Sebastian started work at a London travel agent , living in lodgings on work days , and returning home to Hazelbury on his off days , and Leith heard that she had got the job at Ardis & Co . |
| 14 | She then had two painful weeks to sit it out while she waited to hear if she had got the job . |
| 15 | As a bonus , she had got the information she needed without having to ask for it . |
| 16 | She had got the lease two years ago in 1964 . |
| 17 | We were very open to a range of ideas from big to little ; the mother of a mentally-handicapped child wrote in wanting to do something for mentally-handicapped children , and she had got an idea about setting it in the production office of a children 's comic . |
| 18 | How she had got an ambulance . |
| 19 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |