Example sentences of "she had [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had drunk several glasses of wine and did n't really care at the moment . |
| 2 | If her complexion were any guide , she had drunk several glasses of wine already , and was talking to Leroy Burns . |
| 3 | She had attended slide-illustrated talks on the agricultural problems of vast and distant continents . |
| 4 | He , the laibon , was not so sad because he believed that she had caused many upsets . |
| 5 | He had been unpopular in the city since an inquiry in 1321 which led to the curbing of the city 's liberties ; the citizens had probably helped Mortimer to escape from the Tower , and Froissart , who was a Hainaulter himself and may have written on good authority , said that even before Isabella landed she had received secret assurances of support from them . |
| 6 | She had saved 146 survivors in all , from Southern Princess and from another ship as well . |
| 7 | When she was questioned she told the officer she had consumed two glasses of wine at the school Christmas concert . ’ |
| 8 | Sally Ann Cattell died in a stolen car which crashed during a police chase last March , but the SSD denied reports that she had absconded from the children 's home , St John 's in Erdington , to which she had moved three days before the incident . |
| 9 | She had turned other men — men she did n't hate — away at her door before now without going through all this prior angst , meeting the moment with the tact or firmness it required when it came , but not before . |
| 10 | Why , she had seen better days , thought Ianthe in surprise , for the Miss Grimes she had known in the library , with her raffish appearance and slight Cockney accent , had not suggested anything like this . |
| 11 | She had seen such lumps before . |
| 12 | By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time . |
| 13 | She had seen English newspapers only on odd occasions when friends , or her then lover , came out to visit her . |
| 14 | She had borne seven children and was in her fifty-first year in 1773 , when , on that September Sunday evening she entertained , and played hostess overnight , to her famous English visitor and his plump little annotator from Edinburgh , who wrote of Flora : ‘ She is a little woman , of a genteel appearance , and uncommonly mild and well-bred . ’ |
| 15 | She had lived many times on the edge of danger and she knew better than to sink back to sleep . |
| 16 | Alisa Morrant realised that she had to target new mothers — it would be too late by the time the children attended the dentist for fillings . |
| 17 | JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK . |
| 18 | ‘ She had to take some things over to the hospital for Adam . ’ |
| 19 | In those twenty minutes , Luke had told him that he had found part-time employment at the Old Rectory , Anna had told him that his mother had found employment at a Windsor gift shop , and his mother-in-law , Laura , had telephoned to say she had landed three lines in a television commercial for an Irish stout , dressed as a pearly queen . |
| 20 | During the subsequent week , she had ridden three winners , only one of which was for Bill Templeman . |
| 21 | The poor girl had gone off to her camp before she had formulated any hypotheses ; she had no idea as to what theory or concepts her work was to throw new light on , and so , to be on the safe side , she had recorded everything she could think of over a period of about six weeks and her notebooks practically filled a medium-sized suitcase . |
| 22 | ‘ It will be everyone from Bill 's office , plus other assorted friends … and Tom of course , ’ she had explained several days ago . |
| 23 | She had invited several friends to lunch the next day , and she had given no thought to what to cook . |
| 24 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 25 | But she had recognized faint glimmerings of fanaticism in his recent actions . |
| 26 | Ever since her teens she had sensed such shortcomings in herself , but had shied away from any kind of self-analysis . |
| 27 | A man she had met three times . |
| 28 | She had repeated those words when she said goodbye . |
| 29 | She had heard such tales of those irregular armies that the thought of them brought sweat breaking out all over her . |
| 30 | As Shama talked , Hussa added a reminder here and there as though they were stories which she had heard many times before . |