Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three days after the news had been brought to Margaret in Edinburgh she died , and her body was taken to the church she had endowed at Dunfermline . |
| 2 | They were like the boy she had seen at Oak Lodge … |
| 3 | She remained serious about reading all her life , taking pains with her five children 's education and recommending that they read good books , " not some of the trash she had seen at Morrison & Gibb " . |
| 4 | She told him what she had seen at Sandown . |
| 5 | Unmarried , she had lived at Elm Cottage all her life , looking after her parents until they died well into old age . |
| 6 | It was only after she had fainted at tennis that her father took her to a specialist who found that she had an extra vertebra . |
| 7 | Then she was a Cambridge graduate mother of two , married to a successful young American publisher she had met at Cambridge , the future co-founder of Ink , Ed Victor . |
| 8 | She congratulated me , then enquired after Masha , whose absence she had noticed at dinner . |
| 9 | Behind her was the backdrop of green garden foliage , and just out of her reach , on a small coffee-table that she had positioned at Faye 's instruction , stood an enormous vase filled with flowers — all red ones , ranging from deepest crimson to a vibrant vermilion orange . |
| 10 | She had risen at dawn each day , when the sky was still apricot-coloured and swum naked and alone as the sun rose . |
| 11 | All the friends she had made at school were now married . |
| 12 | Only it was so hard to do that , especially when she began looking at the sketches she had made at Kenilworth . |
| 13 | She had the sudden awful desire to yell at Anne , to deny everything she was trying to say ; but how could she , when in truth she had felt at times every one of those things ? |
| 14 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 15 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 16 | She had stayed at Thomas a while and now this officer was to put her on a stage for home . |
| 17 | She had smarted at Jenny 's accusation the night of the dinner party that she had encouraged Matthew . |
| 18 | Throughout 1802 she had entertained at Merton Place , where she and Sir William and Horatio had a strange ménage à trois , in a lavish style which cost around £65 per week . |
| 19 | ‘ Flick 's made a hit , ’ Gay observed that night , strolling into Breeze 's bedroom clad in the patched pyjamas she had worn at school . |
| 20 | The Star Eye she had joined at Beltagne would soon no longer exist in the same form , she was sure . |
| 21 | She played with her lace handkerchief , just as she had done at Greenway Gardens . |
| 22 | But this time , Anne did not promise to obey her spouse , as she had done at Westminster Abbey , nearly 20 years ago . |
| 23 | Well , that was n't how she had behaved at home . |
| 24 | It was that same song from the Dietrich film she had watched at Rocamar , and as she sang she found new depths in the words . |
| 25 | A light breeze made play with her skirts and , for the first time since she had arrived at Yelton , she wished she could let down her hair and feel the wind run its fingers through it . |
| 26 | He knew nothing of the girl Louise Taylor , other than that she had arrived at Buckingham Palace three months earlier and had spent time coaching the prince and the duchess in Russian . |
| 27 | I had rummaged this same vessel with my crew after she had arrived at Lowestoft at midnight some weeks previously , with a suspiciously empty fish hold and a dripping wet rubber dinghy on deck . |
| 28 | ‘ This is nice , Lily , ’ she said ; she had arrived at Lily Bates 's machine , and the words popped out before she could stop them . |
| 29 | Staring out of the window she was astounded to realize she had arrived at Heathrow . |
| 30 | Minnie had written to her , a short and agonising note , penned with obvious difficulty , and she had replied at length , describing her — horror , Minnie , to hear of these floodings and most of all of the terrible pain which made my own insides contract in sympathy . |