Example sentences of "she had [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was rather touching , especially when one realised that she had practically no money but her old age pension .
2 She was quite capable of going to the police and making accusations which , since she had n't a shred of evidence , could only lead to trouble .
3 ‘ When we first gave her toys , she had n't a clue what to do with them .
4 I croaked out , which hospital , but she had n't a clue and sent me up to ask somebody called Coleman . "
5 She had n't a clue as to what was going on in his mind .
6 She watched him as he snatched the receiver and barked down the end of it , but she had n't a clue as to the nature of the conversation , since she was privy to only one side , and that was in French .
7 He 'd sounded as though he was being sarcastic , or ironic , but again she had n't a clue what he meant .
8 To be truthful , she had n't a clue what she was doing .
9 She had n't a clue what to say .
10 Now if she re-dialled she would only get the apartment ringing incessantly ; the call before she had lost and she had n't a clue where its destination was .
11 ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised breathlessly , so bemused by that time that she had n't a clue what she was apologising for .
12 Nettled by his tone , Shannon glared defensively back at him , belatedly wishing she 'd never got into yet another argument she had n't a hope of winning .
13 Harry Martin was behind all this , and , although she had n't a hope of proving it , she knew it for a fact .
14 Claudia twisted away from him , conscious that if he wanted to keep her close to him she had n't a chance .
15 She also felt the tiniest bit muzzy and hoped that she had n't a cold coming on .
16 She had n't a cough ; it was not , it seemed , her heart — that would be mentioned , I felt .
17 She had n't a penny piece with which to bless herself and few skills .
18 And , and to be able to if you like , bring it as a dowry , but it would n't have mattered if she had n't a penny .
19 But as the bairn said , she had n't a key , it was on her mother .
20 How was it she had n't a bust ? nor hips like other girls , or women , of twenty-two ?
21 With her father 's fate still undecided , he had caught her cruising the shops as though she had n't a care in the world .
22 Though that was easier said than done she would do her best , and try instead to enjoy what she could of the coming seven days , and treat each day as a holiday and as if she had n't a care in the world .
23 Yeah she 's , just at the moment she had n't a complaint
24 She had n't a dog of her own yet .
25 But she had n't the patience for that .
26 Yet she had n't the heart to forbid him to smoke when he had so few comforts left .
27 When he died in her arms in the scalp , she had n't the heart or the strength to survive . ’
28 She had n't the luxury of considering her options .
29 At the end of the summer she was so hungry she had n't the energy to move further than Paddy 's dilapidated chair and she stitched a baby 's gown from her only decent petticoat .
30 Berthe Weill protested that she could not leave the gallery for the moment , she had n't the time , there were all the guests to look after .
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