Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had revealed a core belief before even sitting down ! |
| 2 | On one occasion she had drunk a lot of alcohol , which had made her feel worse . |
| 3 | She could tell her mother she had begun a novena to the Madonna of the Spasm in the Cathedral ; she might come across Tommaso then , somewhere in town , in the square , by the bocce game , and ask him if he would get her an ice cream too . |
| 4 | And she had devised a hook for time with Lucy . |
| 5 | However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June . |
| 6 | Since fleeing to Mexico from Guatemala in 1980 following the murder of her parents and brother by the then military regime , she had maintained a struggle for the rights of American indigenous peoples . |
| 7 | ‘ Collier gave her the necessary sum , and when she had received a receipt of payment from the agent , he duly robbed the agent of the money … |
| 8 | The root cause for her worry , for her looking back instead of forward , was her dear brother Sebastian and how , a week ago , as casual as could be , considering his name was on the mortgage agreement the same as hers , she had received a postcard from him . |
| 9 | She had received a sound enough education to act as a governess to children with parents overseas and , later , as a secretary-companion to American ladies . |
| 10 | Jennie called me into the office and said that I could n't go as she had received a letter from my mother . |
| 11 | The accused maintained that he had gone to her home to ask if she had received a letter of apology from him for his earlier crime . |
| 12 | ‘ Would n't it be lovely if Terry was one of them ? ’ a colleague said , but Sarah said quietly that she had received a letter from him and knew when he would arrive . |
| 13 | Yesterday Mrs McIntyre said she had received a letter saying the matter was being looked into and apologising for the distress caused to Mrs Morrison . |
| 14 | She had received a note that morning while breakfasting at ‘ Mon Repos ’ from Sir Charles Webb-Bowen no less , telling her that she would be called upon to speak third in favour of the motion : ‘ That this Conference believes that better public and press relations would enable Government and Party to get its message across to the public more effectively . ’ |
| 15 | Once she had visited a friend who had a room in a house in North London ; she had accompanied her friend into the small back garden , and had been deeply shocked to find that the walls dividing the row of small terraced gardens were only two feet high . |
| 16 | She had dug a trench and was busy shovelling manure into it from an antiquated wheelbarrow , her thin arms in the tightly fitting sleeves of her black sweater swinging to and fro like crankshafts . |
| 17 | She had to wait until her passport came back because she had cashed a traveller 's check to pay the bill . |
| 18 | All the child 's socks were dirty so she had turned a pair inside out and put them on her . |
| 19 | For years she had turned a calm , expressionless face on the world — quiet , distant , not even blatantly cold , because that would have been a challenge to some men . |
| 20 | She smiled , patted Charlotte 's arm and walked slowly away , the clip of her heels on the marble floor lingering even after she had turned a corner and vanished from sight . |
| 21 | For the first time in her married life she saw pain in her husband 's eyes , as though she had plunged a knife into his body . |
| 22 | Now she had developed a self-assurance and experience which allowed her to perform on the public stage . |
| 23 | Pathologists who carried out a post-mortem examination on Mrs Henderson said she had developed a chest infection and died from complications due to her head injury . |
| 24 | She had developed a habit of raising her hand to her mouth to check because she had no feeling there . |
| 25 | Daniel had been offering to lend her his favourite book of poetry as she had developed a liking for it . |
| 26 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 27 | She had seen a horror film once about an archaeologist in Egypt . |
| 28 | She had seen a scene like that once , in a film about a prison island where convicts were dumped and left to fend fur themselves . |
| 29 | On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home . |
| 30 | She had seen a massacre . |