Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gabriel had collected Steve from school and brought him home , where she had cooked him a meal . |
| 2 | If she had planned it the blow could not have been more accurate . |
| 3 | She thought she had given him a very tricky word , one that he would n't yet have learned , and she was peeved that he had succeeded . |
| 4 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 5 | She had given him no answer but had stared at him and he had come back quickly , saying , ‘ That was a daft thing to say ; you always manage . ’ |
| 6 | She had given him no opportunity to indicate that there was an old friend with him — not that there was , at that point , but there might have been , and if there had been , it was hardly his fault if Alexandra had chosen to come knocking on the door without giving him a chance to explain — and then getting stroppy when she found someone had got there before her . |
| 7 | She left Philip to his labours , thinking that this time she had given him the money for the materials but none for his labour . |
| 8 | At this point the GP had felt that she could no longer help him , and she had given him the number of a marital counsellor . |
| 9 | His hand toyed mercilessly with her breasts , as if he had the right ; perhaps she had given him the right ; as if he owned her and she existed solely for his capricious use . |
| 10 | She had given him an ideal ; she had given him what appears to have been unfailing and uncritical support : he was never as an adult to be easy without one woman on whom he could totally rely . |
| 11 | Once again she had given him an order . |
| 12 | She glared at me , dug beneath her cloak and pushed a purse ( much leaner than the one she had given me the night before ) into my hand . |
| 13 | When her mother-in-law got off the tram , Anna , waving to her , felt glad she had given her a bar of Zoya 's soap . |
| 14 | She had given her a tiny dose of medicine just before the explosion , and now Julia closed her eyes . |
| 15 | ‘ If she had seen you the night of the Giants she might have thought differently , ’ Ratagan said gently . |
| 16 | She had seen it every night and morning for at least 15 of their 18 years of marriage . |
| 17 | She had run away with him to London where she had borne him a daughter , naming her Topaz after a jewel her lover had given her . |
| 18 | It did not seem to matter that she had borne him a son . |
| 19 | She had asked him a few Saturdays ago if everything was all right between them . |
| 20 | For the first time she had met him a flush darkened the back of his neck . |
| 21 | She had heard it every year on Monaghan Day for years but she was unsure if Moran would allow any talk of the war . |
| 22 | She wondered about the bruise on his cheek : she had noticed it the evening before when he came back from his Tuesday round . |
| 23 | She had made her a cool and sweet-smelling bed of grasses inside a circle of powder to keep away ants and other insects . |
| 24 | She had made it a habit never to leave medicines lying about since the time she found Emma sucking a Panadol , thinking it was a mint , but thankfully then having the sense to spit it out when she found it was n't . |
| 25 | She had made it an attractive place , beautifully decorated with light paint , and furnished with old pieces picked up at auctions with taste and considerable knowledge of antiques . |
| 26 | When Coffin got back to his own flat , all he found there in the way of post was an enigmatic postcard from his sister Laetitia : she had sent him a view of Edinburgh from the air , with a message scribbled on the back : I am going to the law . |
| 27 | She had done him a beautiful hand-painted one the year before with ‘ Lots of love ’ on it . |
| 28 | All the same , if it happened that David made her with child , she would bear the child proudly , and be glad that she had brought him a degree of happiness . |
| 29 | But he had not even asked — she had found him a little unnerving . |
| 30 | She had found him a bit too inclined to enthuse , like a tourist visiting some primitive culture , while Polly was ‘ tense ’ . |