Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 2 | She had been brought up in the sophistication of inner Moscow , and she had travelled to European Germany . |
| 3 | But then she reminded herself of the promise she had made to another whom she loved . |
| 4 | The wife stated that she had succumbed to undue pressure from her husband to sign the documents and that he had misrepresented their effect , in that she had believed that the security was limited to £60,000 and would last for only three weeks . |
| 5 | She had presented to another hospital two years previously with abdominal pain , weight loss , diarrhoea , and anaemia , when a diagnosis of Crohn 's disease was made . |
| 6 | As chairman of an access group representing the disabled in the town , she said she had written to two leading Labour councillors asking the Labour group to reject the recommendations . |
| 7 | A man has been jailed for life for strangling his estranged wife , after finding a love letter she had written to another man . |
| 8 | Since the marks on Mary 's body were not necessarily inconsistent with Thornton 's claim that she had consented to sexual intercourse , and since the times on the morning in question when Thornton was seen walking home to Bromwich suggested he could not have been with her when she met her death , the jury found him not guilty . |
| 9 | The moment she had settled to this , Peter was given his first parish , a little parish in a country town to the south of Bristol . |
| 10 | By the following morning she had recovered to some extent from the unusual happenings in her normally well ordered life . |
| 11 | The shape of the parcel she put on Michael 's make-up table showed that , for him at least , she had graduated to full-size bottles of champagne . |
| 12 | Somewhere between the time when they had fallen into an exhausted sleep and when she had woken to this grey dawn , all the joy and magic of what they had shared had faded , and she had been overcome by doubts . |
| 13 | Instead , she had toadied to these ghastly , grasping women in glittering hats , women who themselves seemed to have forgotten that they had husbands and families . |
| 14 | She had agreed to that and named her fee . |
| 15 | She had agreed to this dinner to try to find out the truth , and she must n't allow the attraction she felt for him to cloud that . |
| 16 | In death , she had returned to that and returned his desire . |
| 17 | When the development officer realised ‘ that she had got to such a low ebb ’ she put in a paid worker for a regular two hours per week . |
| 18 | She had , she had got to ten and as soon as she got eleven , mam I 've got eleven |
| 19 | She had come to this , to a limp white heap who had forgotten the names of her nearest and dearest . |
| 20 | She had fled to this new life on the headland and to a different solitude . |
| 21 | Bonham Carter said she had resorted to legal action as a last resort . |
| 22 | Often in the past she had listened to other women talking about their young men and she had tried not to dwell on what they said . |
| 23 | If she had listened to those warning bells more carefully … |
| 24 | It had been far easier to keep it tidy , she thought , in the days when she wore it pinned up ; the style she had taken to suited her better and made her look and feel years younger than she was but it was a terrible nuisance . |