Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt that was due to the ticking off she had received from that strict harridan of a teacher at the small private school in Kensington . |
| 2 | One single man lived in lodgings and his landlady was in the habit of putting in a pudding basin the lunch she had prepared for that day , for him to have warmed up on the morrow . |
| 3 | But she looked down through the glass skylight and recognised in Maggie 's cropped hair and long white body the same contours that she had seen in that other virgin warrior whom she had inspired into battle . |
| 4 | She was as much their victim as the naked flesh she had seen in that bleak vision had been victim to the flail . |
| 5 | Alexander Vass was smiling , that smile she had seen before that totally transformed him . |
| 6 | As I hastened to go upstairs , I happened to encounter Miss Kenton in the back corridor — the scene , of course , of our last disagreement — and it was perhaps this unhappy coincidence that encouraged her to maintain the childish behaviour she had adopted on that previous occasion . |
| 7 | When Anne left them she thought of the first time she had stood on that corner saying goodnight to John . |
| 8 | His supporters were also quick to remind others of her opposition to the principle of referenda in 1975 , circulating copies of speeches she had made at that time . |
| 9 | She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat . |
| 10 | She had helped enthusiastically with the costumes , making for Mary a trailing blue robe of cornflower taffeta , her own Cambridge May Ball dress sheared apart at the seams , lending or donating bright belts and beads to deck out the three kings , one of whom wore a peacock-feathered turban made of the shot-silk stole she had worn with that dance dress . |
| 11 | Although their protection was n't evident Millie was conscious of it , and there were times when she felt as hemmed in as she had done during that tortured year or more when guarded by the sisters . |
| 12 | She had walked into that café like someone landing on the moon , her eyes wide with wonder and alarm . |
| 13 | She was trembling all over , embarrassed and ashamed , unable to believe she had behaved like that . |
| 14 | These were the words she had longed to hear , the ones she had wished for that day at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 15 | Then he pulled down the sheet , which was all the bedclothes she had needed on that warm night , and she lay naked before him . |
| 16 | For she had known in that instant that this dark-haired man before her was destined to leave his mark on her soul . |
| 17 | The comfortable feeling of friendship she had had since that night in August , when she had so firmly suppressed her teenage-flavoured infatuation , was what had allowed love to grow . |
| 18 | She had agreed to that and named her fee . |
| 19 | It had been years since she had cried like that , and that she should have done so now in front of Luke surprised her even more . |
| 20 | She had thought of that first male kiss as opening a door inside her , through which she would step towards adulthood , real sex . |
| 21 | In death , she had returned to that and returned his desire . |
| 22 | It was for Pat that she had put on that dress , those smart shoes . |
| 23 | Folasade felt she had changed in that having a baby had given her more confidence and put her on a more equal footing with her mother . |
| 24 | Even her first husband she had regained from that dreadful hinterland of marsh and bog and storm cloud : and now they were good friends , she and Edgar , in the sunlight , harmlessly friends , and on some subjects ( the National Health Service , the pathology of multiple murderers , the ethics of reporting violent crime ) had struck up alliances that excluded , that increasingly and dramatically excluded , her husband Charles . |
| 25 | She was a bonny young 'un , right enough , and from a bonny mother , from what she had glimpsed of that lass as she skidded down the road with the polis after her . |
| 26 | Ruth did n't follow straight away ; she stood folding her napkin absently and staring down at it and wondering what she had learnt from that . |
| 27 | She was beginning to think he had a way of entering her thoughts and her memory , because she had looked like that when they had made their final move — tall , slender , leggy . |