Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The applicant sought judicial review of the decison of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office on 26 June 1991 , in the course of criminal proceedings against the applicant , to seek to enforce his compliance with the requirement contained in a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 to attend at her offices and answer questions or otherwise furnish information in respect of her investigation of the applicant alone , afer she had caused him to be interviewed under caution on three occasions and thereafter charged him with an offence , at a time when and in circumstances whereby ( a ) the applicant 's application for legal aid had not yet been granted and he had neither legal advice nor legal representation available to him ; ( b ) the Director had stated that she would not cause the applicant to be further cautioned in compliance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 of the current Codes of Practice issued pursuant to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 . |
| 2 | Sarah told Maureen that she had received one by the same post . |
| 3 | All these messages had been sent forth , and she had received none of them , had continued to consider herself in charge , in control , the prime mover . |
| 4 | She recalled the housekeeper 's kindness to her the previous evening , when she had led her from her mistress 's chamber and shown her the room that Miss Merchiston had assigned for her use . |
| 5 | Ever since she had saved him in the snowstorm , George had been uncomfortably aware of her presence . |
| 6 | Whether or not she was saved , it was a fact that she had saved him from a bleak scepticism . |
| 7 | The hedgehog itself was 19 stitches wide and she had saved it as a 23-stitch pattern repeat . |
| 8 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 9 | A close school friend , Paula Bolwell , 19 , said Sarah had been unhappy when she had visited her at college . |
| 10 | She had visited plenty of museums , seen antique sculpture . |
| 11 | The Rectory , when she reached it ten minutes later , was as silent and calm as when she had visited it with the Archdeacon on Saturday evening . |
| 12 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 13 | He saw and understood that she had prepared herself for him . |
| 14 | Next second she had plunged it into them . |
| 15 | She had soiled herself to the point of revulsion by submitting to his pawing in the public street — as shameless as the casual coupling of two dogs . |
| 16 | She had given it with affection , but would have been forced — by custom , by law , and by John-William 's iron will — to give it anyway . |
| 17 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 18 | She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck . |
| 19 | Rachaela thought of the day she had seen her in the snow , the day Emma had bowed out from their lives with urgent smiles . |
| 20 | She had seen me on television and remembered the skinny little boy , Linford Christie , who had asked her all those questions on a flight from Kingston twenty-one years earlier . |
| 21 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 22 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 23 | She had seen them on their expensive horses , swooping across country , confident in the saddle . |
| 24 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 25 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 26 | She had seen them around the hotel for the last five days . |
| 27 | He was as perfect to her now as he had been when she had seen him as a child . |
| 28 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 29 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 30 | It was one of the joys of life , and particularly she loved dancing tonight with Tony Radcliffe , because he was her oldest friend in the world and this was the first time she had seen him for eighteen months . |