Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Doreen Banks may have been murdered for what she had recorded on this , ’ he began . |
| 2 | Miss Lister administered it herself , and during her life there continued the practice she had begun in 1817 of keeping a daily journal . |
| 3 | ‘ There are always survivors , ’ she said , and told me about cancer patients given six months to live by conventional doctors , whom she had sustained over several years . |
| 4 | I realise she had attended with other children and it 's no easy task to keep track on all of them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It had thrown up some very challenging cross-references in its time , and she was at the moment pursuing a connection between the nature of quattrocento pigmentation and lichenology as a method of dating the antiquity of landscape : a gratifyingly pointless and therefore pure pursuit , which enabled her mind to wander in the direction of Italy and to hover about the abstraction of a particular shade of green-blue which she had noted in many a painted Italian scene as well as in the lichens of ancient English woodland . |
| 9 | Hitherto dean of the faculty of foreign studies at Sophia University in Tokyo , she had served from 1976 to 1978 as a diplomat in Japan 's UN mission , and subsequently chaired the executive board of the UN Children 's Fund . |
| 10 | Elizabeth retired a little earlier than she had planned for domestic reasons but says that she intends to keep in touch with colleagues . |
| 11 | She shot down stairs faster than she had moved for thirty years , her head full of horrific accidents . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She had , and she felt slightly uneasy about admitting it , she had sought the smartly intense , at the expense of the more solid and dowdy virtues ; she had been attracted by surfaces , by clothes and manners and voices and trivial strange graces , and she had imitated what she had seen of these things in others . |
| 18 | The spacious living area of his suite was as luxurious as everything else she had seen of this hotel — a pair of couches facing each other across a low table , two individual chairs at an angle close to the window , with a desk and a bar supplying practical touches . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ ’ Devon , the garden of England ! ’ ' said Breeze , quoting from the brightly coloured placards she had seen in various stations en route . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She was as much their victim as the naked flesh she had seen in that bleak vision had been victim to the flail . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It went pop , and Signe leaned forward into the candlelight so that all the customers could see her , and sipped at the champagne and narrowed her eyes at me in a gesture of passion that she had seen in some bad film . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Alexander Vass was smiling , that smile she had seen before that totally transformed him . |
| 27 | The judge held that the child 's welfare required that she be adopted by the foster parents with whom she had lived for three of her five years , and that the parents were withholding agreement unreasonably . |
| 28 | Jessamy closed her eyes and wondered how she had lived without this sweet physical contact for so long . |
| 29 | Tina herself was not a risk in this area because the man she had lived with longer than any other was paying her £50 a week for the children 's keep . |
| 30 | 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 . |