Example sentences of "she had [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had either a split skirt or split dress . |
| 2 | The initial shock must have been terrible , but in fact she had rather a good war . |
| 3 | She explained to Farmer Plant how she used the outjutting twin branches of the tree as her pony , as she had n't a real one to ride , and how she was working for the Pony Rider badge . |
| 4 | Ruth and she had instead a disarmed neutrality . |
| 5 | She had also a gallant and generous heart wide-open to affection . |
| 6 | She had quite a long and happy chat with the ‘ witch ’ before she left for home . |
| 7 | However , on a Dow-Stoker Returners programme she discovered that she had quite a strong numerical ability , and decided that she would like to work in an accounts department . |
| 8 | If you look at her face she had quite a pointed nose |
| 9 | She had quite a few gadgets . |
| 10 | I have a niece who erm she had quite a few , she 's won several times . |
| 11 | She had quite a large party staying in the village and so we just gathered in the kitchen and talked . |
| 12 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 13 | An exhausted Miranda found that instead of having more time , she had almost a full-time job keeping present and future shareholders informed and happy : she prepared official reports , gave institutional and pension-fund presentations , attended city lunches , and made time in her overfilled schedule for the financial press . |
| 14 | A second later she had fallen to the ground , her hair covering her eyes so that she had only a vague impression of the man bending over her . |
| 15 | It was my good fortune to see a lot of Emily Carr and to be counted as a friend , for she claimed she had only a few . |
| 16 | ‘ I think ’ , wrote Baxter , ‘ that she had scarce a pleasanter time in her life than while she was with me there . ’ |