Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She had heard of such mistakes . |
| 4 | So all she had heard of this woman was true . |
| 5 | She had read of this sort of thing often enough ; she had heard of its happening to other people — even to people she knew — but she had never for one moment imagined that it could happen to her . |
| 6 | Evil places were said to retain an aura of Evil and , from what she had learned of this place from Mahoney , if ever that aura was present then it would dwell easily here . |
| 7 | But she had never had confirmation of his death , as she had had of those of his parents and hers . |
| 8 | She had thought of that first male kiss as opening a door inside her , through which she would step towards adulthood , real sex . |
| 9 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 10 | She had thought of this . |
| 11 | She remembered the lover made up out of books and poems she had dreamed of all summer ; he crumpled like the paper he was made of before this insolent , off-hand , terrifying maleness , filling the room with its reek . |
| 12 | She had dreamed of such a moment so often . |
| 13 | She tried to tell herself that she had come here today to be cured , to return to the cold world of normality ; but in another part of her mind she had dreamed of this meeting , the apotheosis of the love affair . |
| 14 | She had dreamed of this night of lust for seven weeks . |
| 15 | It was all she had left of four years of happiness , and it was very precious . |
| 16 | She was a bonny young 'un , right enough , and from a bonny mother , from what she had glimpsed of that lass as she skidded down the road with the polis after her . |
| 17 | She had dreamt of this moment , fantasised it in her mind so many lonely dark nights , and now it was happening and nothing had prepared her for this self-destruction . |