Example sentences of "had [verb] her [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Suu Kyi had led the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) to a landslide election victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ] , but the country 's ruling military junta , the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , which had placed her under house arrest in mid-1989 , prevented the party from forming a government . |
| 2 | She 'd felt a warmth go through her , as though he 'd reached out and touched her , an imaginary touch that had filled her with excitement . |
| 3 | Had hated her at sight . |
| 4 | This was style , as they had taught her at school . |
| 5 | He reminded her of a mathematics mistress who had taught her at school . |
| 6 | She chuckled at her romanticism : even most of the historians who had taught her at Cambridge sported tattered leather jackets and greasy jeans . |
| 7 | Those were the words she would choose , she decided vengefully , after Dame Sybil had tucked her into bed and returned to the hall . |
| 8 | A woman , leaning lightly on an ebony and silver cane , was rising slowly from the depths of the high-backed chair that had hidden her from view . |
| 9 | Somewhat earlier , Sarah Fyge Egerton complained in poems , admittedly less violent , that her father had banished her from London for publishing ‘ The Female Advocate ’ . |
| 10 | Her notebook was there , the piece of paper Cobalt had given her with Barbara Coleman 's Nice address was there , everything she could recall was there except the keys . |
| 11 | She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas . |
| 12 | She could find only her chequebook and the small , leather-bound directory Jasper had given her for Christmas and into which , to gratify the child , she had painstakingly copied the addresses and phone numbers of friends accumulated throughout a lifetime . |
| 13 | Her family was delighted although Fiona remembers her sister-in-law in America asking anxiously about the kitten James had given her for Christmas . |
| 14 | Remembering the kiss he had given her after breakfast it seemed as if their relationship might at long last have changed . |
| 15 | John gave the leading part , of the woman whose husband is drowned , to a young dancer he had not previously created for , although he had partnered her in Khadra , Sheilah O'Reilly . |
| 16 | She said Suzanne had telephoned her from Germany . |
| 17 | He thought she was worrying about Midge 's reaction to the news when they had telephoned her from Richie 's flat . |
| 18 | She was drawn towards the resilience of a man who offered the possibility of providing something which had eluded her during childhood — the exclusive love of a parent . |
| 19 | She had been no worse and no better than the three women who had preceded her in Alexandra 's life , all driven away in the end by the isolation and the powerful ghosts . |
| 20 | Scarlet , though not reassured by her words , was touched by her gesture until she saw that Camille was merely reaching for the crisp packet and had patted her in passing . |
| 21 | In all the desperate , toiling years she had been in Canada , neither her husband nor her son had ever made themselves a meal , except on one or two occasions when illness had confined her to bed . |
| 22 | Miss Maynard 's invitation had caught her off guard . |
| 23 | And because , somehow , Luke Hunter had caught her off balance with his flowers and cryptic messages . |
| 24 | By the end of November John Major had succeeded her as leader of the Conservative Party , a post she had held for nearly 16 years , and as Prime Minister , an office she had held since 1979 . |
| 25 | And , while her mother had recommended her to Romano de Sciorto , she knew that he 'd run a thorough , ruthless check on her credentials through his London contacts . |
| 26 | She would have no trouble in finding a tenant for the cottage ; already Simon Clifford , a neighbour , had approached her on behalf of an acquaintance of his who was looking for a place in the area . |
| 27 | She knew this woman had reminded her of Tommy Bellinger ! |
| 28 | He had phoned her at Milton Buildings , saying that he had a routine enquiry to make about the Datsun , would have asked for Mr Marius Steen but , owing to the recent regrettable happening , wondered if she could help . |
| 29 | Luke had met her at Euston . |
| 30 | Francesca 's much publicized affair with Senator Michael O'Brien was the reason that she had been sent home rather early from a tour of duty in the Embassy in Washington , over a year previously , just before he had met her in London . |