Example sentences of "she had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or that she had drunk one glass too many ? |
| 2 | Jane Pargeter walked self-consciously to the kitchen to make herself a cup of tea : she had obviously decided she had drunk enough gin for the afternoon . |
| 3 | She knew she had drunk more wine than was wise . |
| 4 | She had drunk some punch . |
| 5 | She had drunk several glasses of wine and did n't really care at the moment . |
| 6 | If her complexion were any guide , she had drunk several glasses of wine already , and was talking to Leroy Burns . |
| 7 | She had attended slide-illustrated talks on the agricultural problems of vast and distant continents . |
| 8 | He , the laibon , was not so sad because he believed that she had caused many upsets . |
| 9 | What added considerably to this worried mother 's concern was a letter she had received that morning . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had saved 146 survivors in all , from Southern Princess and from another ship as well . |
| 12 | She knew she had visited heavy housework upon herself because of her attitude . |
| 13 | She had collected fresh bread on the way through the little villages and had also bought fruit and vegetables . |
| 14 | ‘ Respect for the dead , ’ he said , speaking to Carrie quite angrily , as if she had questioned this action . |
| 15 | When she was questioned she told the officer she had consumed two glasses of wine at the school Christmas concert . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was the first time she had expressed any sympathy for the Daily Mirror pensioners . |
| 19 | Now she had to wear this metal cage to stop the bones in her neck crumbling . |
| 20 | She told Annie that she had to do some shopping , then doubled back and waited . |
| 21 | White and anxious , she said : Yes , she had given that bag to her daughter , and it had contained such chocolates . |
| 22 | And our sister paper the Sunday Mirror revealed yesterday she had given 37-year-old Bryan a room there . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She had seen such lumps before . |
| 25 | And she knew that she had seen that expression before , and very recently . |
| 26 | She had seen that look of appraisal in men 's eyes before . |
| 27 | Robyn got out of the car and looked through railings across the car park to a brick office block and a tall windowless building behind it , a prospect almost as depressing as the prison she had seen that morning . |
| 28 | By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time . |
| 29 | She had seen English newspapers only on odd occasions when friends , or her then lover , came out to visit her . |
| 30 | Her mother was dead like the badger she had seen last week in the woods , with its hair all stiff , and its mouth curled open . |