Example sentences of "she [adv] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | My youngest girl has just been operated on and I could n't believe she only had two stitches . |
2 | She only had two days left , and the thought of nothing after that made her shiver with dread . |
3 | She only had two weeks from her free time . |
4 | Oh she had to buy five presents and she only had two kids . |
5 | She only had one cow , it was all she could afford , but it provided enough milk to go with the porridge in the morning and the potatoes at other meals . |
6 | She only had one stick in them days — seven years back , I reckon . |
7 | She only had four jackpots in her pocket . |
8 | She pushed it into the slot and dialled , dismayed to see she only had six units left . |
9 | She already had two children , Matthew , six , and Rebecca , three , and she feared she would n't be able to cope with two new babies . |
10 | She already had two children , Matthew , six , and Rebecca , three , and she feared she would n't be able to cope with two new babies . |
11 | She already had grave doubts about the propriety of letting him buy her things , but accepted that it was part of the deal of being his supposed girlfriend . |
12 | Oh she 's alright , she just had double nappies on for a very long time |
13 | She thus had little use for cinema which gave great weight to symbolism , and unfavourably contrasted symbolist poetry to the work of poets like Ezra Pound whose world operated , not through meaning , but through the ‘ direct impact of words ’ . |
14 | She always had some piece of sewing stuck in her belt while she cooked . |
15 | He had looked after his younger brothers and sister , he had made sure that she always had enough money , but she had been hearing things of late that had frightened her . |
16 | She still had Caribbean colonies but the bulk of her possessions were in Africa , where she ruled Algeria , part of Gambia , the French Congo and French Somaliland and was about to acquire ( in 1881 ) a protectorate over Tunis . |
17 | She realised that she still had fifteen minutes before the meeting was due to start and on an impulse she rang Paul . |
18 | she still had that cold |
19 | So when mentioned that she still had 4 tickets left , I took the plunge and said yes we would be interested . |
20 | She expected to live her life as though she still had four maids with me doing their work . ’ |
21 | Great Britain still had great industrial resources : there were specialized skills available among her workers , she still had huge supplies of her excellent coal , she had opened up new markets as fast as she had been pursued into her old ones by her competitors , and she had an enormous income from investments overseas and from the services which she supplied — in transport , banking and insurance , for example — to the rest of the world . |
22 | By anybody 's reckoning , she still had another week in which to go through agonies about it . |
23 | By Friday she had arranged everything to Rob 's satisfaction , although as she handed Luke his notes for the meeting in York she still had some reservations about his reaction to his brother 's methods of expressing gratitude . |
24 | She lives in a large , sunny and specially adapted local authority bungalow in Northampton : the walls of the living room are decorated with her paintings ( done when she still had some use of her right hand ) and her kitchen cupboard is covered with postcards , love letters from old boyfriends and local newspaper articles . |
25 | She probably had enough cash for a taxi , but the taxi habit still came hard to a girl from the sticks who was n't even used to being able to afford bus fare . |
26 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
27 | She also had strong opinions and found it hard to " brook any delay or frustration . |
28 | She also had typical hypocalcaemia . |
29 | But she also had many enemies … |
30 | She also had some concern as to whether in eight week Alan might develop a taste for the alcohol , the chocolate , and even the cigarettes ! |