Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wavy black hair curled behind his ears so thickly that she was reminded of an Ingres portrait of a nobleman she had seen in one of Miss Hatherby 's books . |
| 2 | She could go back to the Rosenblooms , to the big house outside Glasgow where she had lived as one of the family for twelve years . |
| 3 | She thought that although she might one day be able to accept this stupid time hiccup , she would never ever come to terms with these brief glimpses into another world ; as though a door had opened and closed and that , for a moment , she had stood with one foot on either side of the threshold . |
| 4 | She had been more than a little taken aback by his unexpected appearance in the area and also somewhat intrigued , though she had heard from one of the carmen who frequented the cafe that the young man had recently married . |
| 5 | She told him nervously , one eye on Alexander , how she had stayed with one of Mme Grimaud 's innumerable cousins in Orange , had seen Racine 's Britannicus and a Cocteau ballet on the same subject in the Théâtre Antique . |
| 6 | Perhaps one of the reasons she had gone from one man to another was that she could not bear to lose the excitement and flattery of the early stages of love . |
| 7 | She had disappeared into one of the bedrooms and was dragging clothes out of the drawers of a chest . |
| 8 | But she had woken with one of her banging headaches , so that was that . |
| 9 | If she had thought for one moment he was serious she would have been deeply shocked . |
| 10 | And when she had seen a man 's shape she had thought for one wild moment that Mervyn or even John had called with flowers . |
| 11 | When she got back to the bench she saw that she had knocked over one of the shopping bags when she had stood up and a carton of eggs had dropped to the ground . |
| 12 | She had put on one of Alice 's brassières under the dress she had lent her , but it looked odd , so she had to take it off . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you gave up , ’ I said , pointing at the cigarette she had stuck behind one ear . |
| 14 | She raised the oddly shaped blaster she had taken from one of the Chelonians and fired . |