Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realise she had attended with other children and it 's no easy task to keep track on all of them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had dressed with extra care that morning and knew that she looked her best in the slim-fitting navy suit with a spotless white blouse , but it was disconcerting to be subjected to such a scrutiny . |
| 6 | It was made all the more infuriating by the fact that she had dressed with more than usual care , splashing out far more than she could afford on a red silk jersey creation from an expensive boutique . |
| 7 | She had dressed with some care . |
| 8 | She had fallen with such a thud and her shoulder ached painfully where she 'd hit the ground . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was a bigger race , she was on a better horse , maybe she had ridden with more coolness than usual thanks to the emergency prescription of Dr Cy McCray . |
| 11 | He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance . |
| 12 | Prince Philip asked if she had co-operated with royal writer Andrew Morton as he prepared his best-seller Diana : Her True Story . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was so convinced that she was , he just assumed she had stayed with some girlfriend to try to make him jealous . |
| 15 | She had helped enthusiastically with the costumes , making for Mary a trailing blue robe of cornflower taffeta , her own Cambridge May Ball dress sheared apart at the seams , lending or donating bright belts and beads to deck out the three kings , one of whom wore a peacock-feathered turban made of the shot-silk stole she had worn with that dance dress . |
| 16 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 17 | She leant down and started to lick out his ear , bit his lobes , started to tell him of all the things she had done with other men . |
| 18 | Although just what she had done with all her unencumbered time since he 'd moved the rest of them to Almsmead , other than take an excessive interest in the mill-school he 'd had to build to keep on the right side of that damned , interfering Factory Act , he was uncertain . |
| 19 | She had dealt with enough crisis situations that she was very slow to panic , but she realised something else . |
| 20 | Through that illusion she had walked with blessed speed , and out beyond it into a world of other possibilities . |
| 21 | She had disappeared with Old Red into her duty-room and closed the door before I left Casualty . |
| 22 | Her ball gown was an old grey dress which she had prettified with some lengths of Brussels lace . |
| 23 | Maybe she had finished with sexual intercourse for ever , maybe it was this possibility that gave her this peculiar conviction of strength , this sense of invulnerability , of certainty , of power . |
| 24 | She had known with all her soul that she had made just the right decision . |
| 25 | She had slept with three men in her life . |
| 26 | But she had woken with one of her banging headaches , so that was that . |
| 27 | She had counter-attacked with bright lampshades and curtains , but she had n't won . |
| 28 | Four up for S-Sugar , she had thought with bitter satisfaction . |
| 29 | When I asked why this was so she explained that since her husband died she had been managing well and felt that she had coped with all the trauma . |
| 30 | Though she had dined with Red Leland that evening and had seemed as pleased to meet him again as he had been to see her , though I had frequently brought up his name since my holiday started , each time she had immediately changed the subject . |