Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realise she had attended with other children and it 's no easy task to keep track on all of them . |
| 2 | The Scottish National Party Euro-MP for the Highlands and Islands , Winnie Ewing , wrote to the Secretary of State for Scotland , detailing some of the correspondence she had received from worried parents . |
| 3 | She had examined with analytical precision her empty and disgusting marriage with an impotent old man , and her candid delight at the death that had put an end to it . |
| 4 | Elizabeth retired a little earlier than she had planned for domestic reasons but says that she intends to keep in touch with colleagues . |
| 5 | Although she started out a creature of Parisian tastes in the sixties , by the seventies she had turned towards Iranian fabrics and designs ; where she went her court and may others followed . |
| 6 | Claire Easterbrook , Senior Scientific Officer in the Biology Department and , with Lorrimer 's death , the senior biologist , had taken from her briefcase a scientific paper she had prepared on recent advances in blood grouping and settled down to revise it with as little apparent concern as if murder at Hoggatt 's were a routine inconvenience for which , prudently , she was always provided . |
| 7 | Grainne blinked and shook her head , because just for a few seconds she had seen with dreadful clarity the Dark Ireland , the Evil Realm , the world of malevolence and malignancy . |
| 8 | ‘ ’ Devon , the garden of England ! ’ ' said Breeze , quoting from the brightly coloured placards she had seen in various stations en route . |
| 9 | Sometimes , Hawk was like the masters she had seen in Chinese martial arts movies , talking in parables , and drawing out his pupil 's skills through subterfuge . |
| 10 | It seemed to Marie like those ‘ executive-style ’ rooms she had seen in numerous television advertisements and soap operas : bright , spacious and open plan with acres of carpets , a jungle of lush potted plants , low leather chairs with squashy seats and coffee tables , casually strewn with expensive , up-market magazines . |
| 11 | She had lived among Genoese merchants in Bruges : Anselm Adorne had her respect and affection . |
| 12 | Privacy ; Erika longed for it herself , often , but it occurred to her , for the first time , that her mother might long for it , too , might want it and , indeed , need it , and it dawned on her , also for the first time , that her mother had never had any privacy since the end of the War ; that all her life since then she had lived in small apartments , actually in one small room for long periods , and sharing even that room with others … . |
| 13 | But the more she had discovered about her-pampered upbringing , an unearned regular allowance from her father , a handsome legacy in Mills ' will — the more Christine 's hypocrisy rankled . |
| 14 | She had dressed with extra care that morning and knew that she looked her best in the slim-fitting navy suit with a spotless white blouse , but it was disconcerting to be subjected to such a scrutiny . |
| 15 | All her life she had battled against cystic fibrosis . |
| 16 | It was the home of a very wealthy man , a man she had recognised as wealthy the moment she had seen him . |
| 17 | From leaving school at twelve years of age until her marriage to Hywell Gates at the age of twenty-five , she had slaved in other peoples houses for a pittance . |
| 18 | He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance . |
| 19 | She had been brought up in the sophistication of inner Moscow , and she had travelled to European Germany . |
| 20 | But , although she had progressed from happy childhood to happy marriage , all the while a conflict was raging within her . |
| 21 | But she was impatient of their return to the home she had created in endless sketches ; impatient too of Jacob 's incessant meetings with colleagues , with acolytes who sat transfixed , listening to him as if they were on their knees . |
| 22 | Although there is little or no evidence to support the contention that those who deviate from shared sexual morality are likely to be ‘ deviant ’ in other ways as well , it was argued in Chapter two that it is precisely this quality that Mrs Whitehouse felt she had detected in young ‘ revolutionaries ’ such as Richard Neville . |
| 23 | Some of her ideas about sex and marriage seemed old-fashioned compared with various loudly expressed opinions she had heard from other nurses , and her steps towards the lighter side of life were still very tentative , as Deana 's blunt accusations last week had shown her . |
| 24 | Prince Philip asked if she had co-operated with royal writer Andrew Morton as he prepared his best-seller Diana : Her True Story . |
| 25 | She had found it in them perhaps more securely than in the friends she had made in other colleges , with whom her relationships had been complicated by sex . |
| 26 | She had suffered during long bouts of Hopper 's depression , rages and his obsession with James Dean . |
| 27 | It emerged that she had suffered from mild diarrhoea and wind for some years , but had not thought it worth bothering the doctor about these minor problems . |
| 28 | For several years she had suffered from painful endometriosis , which was at first misdiagnosed and then treated unnecessarily by surgery . |
| 29 | The wife stated that she had succumbed to undue pressure from her husband to sign the documents and that he had misrepresented their effect , in that she had believed that the security was limited to £60,000 and would last for only three weeks . |
| 30 | She had killed in cold blood . |