Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one which she had been longing to ask him ever since the night on which he had come home so late , just before she had turned off all the gas-lamps . |
| 2 | She had battled against all the odds to give that girl everything she could possibly want . |
| 3 | She said it had prompted more real conversation between them than she had achieved in all their previous encounters . |
| 4 | She had gone through all the rigmarole of dressing and making up almost on automatic pilot , deriving none of the normal pleasure from the procedure . |
| 5 | This she had waited for all her life . |
| 6 | Although just what she had done with all her unencumbered time since he 'd moved the rest of them to Almsmead , other than take an excessive interest in the mill-school he 'd had to build to keep on the right side of that damned , interfering Factory Act , he was uncertain . |
| 7 | Long ago she had retreated from all the suffering into her own world . |
| 8 | Nora was relieved at this return of monetary caution ; it supplied the motif she had missed in all the previous talk . |
| 9 | She had known with all her soul that she had made just the right decision . |
| 10 | That she had slept at all was an encouraging sign that the contamination was fading . |
| 11 | But the texture of her sleep was light and shimmering and when she opened her eyes again much later , it did not seem as though she had slept at all . |
| 12 | Henry Tyler would not have described her as a happy woman , but afterward he could not say that she had seemed at all unwell . |
| 13 | She remembered the lover made up out of books and poems she had dreamed of all summer ; he crumpled like the paper he was made of before this insolent , off-hand , terrifying maleness , filling the room with its reek . |
| 14 | When I asked why this was so she explained that since her husband died she had been managing well and felt that she had coped with all the trauma . |
| 15 | Mr Dakin burst out , but the old cow brushed past us and marched without hesitation into the stall which she had occupied for all those years . |
| 16 | Or if she was looking older , if she had changed at all . |
| 17 | Looking back , she could see that she had married for all the wrong reasons . |