Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Lister administered it herself , and during her life there continued the practice she had begun in 1817 of keeping a daily journal . |
| 2 | It had thrown up some very challenging cross-references in its time , and she was at the moment pursuing a connection between the nature of quattrocento pigmentation and lichenology as a method of dating the antiquity of landscape : a gratifyingly pointless and therefore pure pursuit , which enabled her mind to wander in the direction of Italy and to hover about the abstraction of a particular shade of green-blue which she had noted in many a painted Italian scene as well as in the lichens of ancient English woodland . |
| 3 | His wavy black hair curled behind his ears so thickly that she was reminded of an Ingres portrait of a nobleman she had seen in one of Miss Hatherby 's books . |
| 4 | ‘ ’ Devon , the garden of England ! ’ ' said Breeze , quoting from the brightly coloured placards she had seen in various stations en route . |
| 5 | But she looked down through the glass skylight and recognised in Maggie 's cropped hair and long white body the same contours that she had seen in that other virgin warrior whom she had inspired into battle . |
| 6 | She was as much their victim as the naked flesh she had seen in that bleak vision had been victim to the flail . |
| 7 | Sometimes , Hawk was like the masters she had seen in Chinese martial arts movies , talking in parables , and drawing out his pupil 's skills through subterfuge . |
| 8 | It went pop , and Signe leaned forward into the candlelight so that all the customers could see her , and sipped at the champagne and narrowed her eyes at me in a gesture of passion that she had seen in some bad film . |
| 9 | It seemed to Marie like those ‘ executive-style ’ rooms she had seen in numerous television advertisements and soap operas : bright , spacious and open plan with acres of carpets , a jungle of lush potted plants , low leather chairs with squashy seats and coffee tables , casually strewn with expensive , up-market magazines . |
| 10 | Privacy ; Erika longed for it herself , often , but it occurred to her , for the first time , that her mother might long for it , too , might want it and , indeed , need it , and it dawned on her , also for the first time , that her mother had never had any privacy since the end of the War ; that all her life since then she had lived in small apartments , actually in one small room for long periods , and sharing even that room with others … . |
| 11 | She had lived in this flat for two years now , working as a secretary in the City , recovering from her life as a war victim , wanting only peace and freedom from her jealous , possessive father and her jealous , possessive uncle . |
| 12 | The collapse of EDC was a bitter blow to the European movement , made worse by the fact that in October , after a crisis which threatened to rend the Atlantic alliance apart , France accepted West German rearmament within NATO , the very thing she had rejected in 1950 . |
| 13 | From leaving school at twelve years of age until her marriage to Hywell Gates at the age of twenty-five , she had slaved in other peoples houses for a pittance . |
| 14 | But what was totally unfamiliar was the athleticism and poised stage presence she had achieved in such a short time . |
| 15 | She said it had prompted more real conversation between them than she had achieved in all their previous encounters . |
| 16 | But she was impatient of their return to the home she had created in endless sketches ; impatient too of Jacob 's incessant meetings with colleagues , with acolytes who sat transfixed , listening to him as if they were on their knees . |
| 17 | Although there is little or no evidence to support the contention that those who deviate from shared sexual morality are likely to be ‘ deviant ’ in other ways as well , it was argued in Chapter two that it is precisely this quality that Mrs Whitehouse felt she had detected in young ‘ revolutionaries ’ such as Richard Neville . |
| 18 | Elizabeth reported that she had heard in such a place : ‘ Long time , no see , old boy , what 's your poison ? ’ |
| 19 | She had found it in them perhaps more securely than in the friends she had made in other colleges , with whom her relationships had been complicated by sex . |
| 20 | Many had been the voyages of discovery she had made in this — the most powerful spacecraft that had never been built , and never will be . |
| 21 | Through her iron self-discipline , Laura had managed to control some of her phobias , such as fear of cows , small insects and mice , but she never obliterated the memory of how she had suffered in younger days . |
| 22 | She had killed in cold blood . |
| 23 | She had phoned in sick straight after she 'd got home that dreadful morning and spent the next couple of days trying to come to terms with what had happened , but there was no way she could ever accept what Luke had done , how he had used her in that unscrupulous way . |
| 24 | She had retired in 1970 and married General Coutts , a " scholar and man of wonderful insight and perception " at the age of sixty five . |
| 25 | But Navratilova knew she had been outplayed by Sukova , a player she had beaten in 25 of 29 earlier meetings . |
| 26 | They cried a lot , and Jesie Smith , appearing in the kitchen more than she had done in recent months , not only cried but wailed , nearly always when Joe was within earshot , and the substance of her wailing was , ‘ Left without a breadwinner , ’ which nearly always elicited , ‘ Oh ! |
| 27 | And she longed to feel him wrap his arms protectively around her again — she wanted to feel safe the way she had done in those brief moments on the terrace the other evening when for one miraculous instant she had believed there was something real between them . |
| 28 | In America the war was not much more decisive than its predecessor , but British successes in Europe and claims to compensation to make up for the fact that the Bourbons had secured the Spanish throne meant that Britain kept her gains instead of returning them as she had done in 1697 . |
| 29 | Nora was relieved at this return of monetary caution ; it supplied the motif she had missed in all the previous talk . |
| 30 | From some dim recess of her mind came the words of a Breton fisherman 's prayer , which she had read in some book . |