Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Meredith , she forgot about him once she had ventured at last into the supermarket . |
| 2 | Mrs Bottomley said that in her South-West Surrey constituency she had heard at first hand many stories of personal anguish , crisis and despair in the last hard year . |
| 3 | Let's go and see it , he had said , and she had recoiled at first . |
| 4 | His supporters were also quick to remind others of her opposition to the principle of referenda in 1975 , circulating copies of speeches she had made at that time . |
| 5 | Rachel relaxed , grateful , and gave her usual careful consideration to the matters before the meeting ; calmly ploughing through the minutiae and bureaucratic red tape of museum management , making the sort of useful contributions that she had made at any such meeting in the last twenty years . |
| 6 | Whatever she had felt at nineteen , hatred was all that was left now , and hatred ought to impart strength . |
| 7 | " My sons told me you lost your wife in a swimming accident four years ago , Monsieur Devraux , " she had said at last , speaking quietly in French . |
| 8 | His towers rejected the fear she had of the hideous , dehumanized sadists she had known at Mars-U . |
| 9 | That she had slept at all was an encouraging sign that the contamination was fading . |
| 10 | But the texture of her sleep was light and shimmering and when she opened her eyes again much later , it did not seem as though she had slept at all . |
| 11 | Clare remembered how she had seemed at first to be constrained in all her movements and jerky , almost as if her stammer manifested itself through her body as well . |
| 12 | Henry Tyler would not have described her as a happy woman , but afterward he could not say that she had seemed at all unwell . |
| 13 | He was altogether too handsome , she had thought at first . |
| 14 | Then she settled down at the dining-room table with her book purchases , which she had picked at random from the shelves of Tollemarche 's only book store and from the racks of one of the cigar stores . |
| 15 | Or if she was looking older , if she had changed at all . |
| 16 | To everyone 's surprise , though , she had married at eighteen , and had left the village . |
| 17 | She had married at seventeen and was busy throwing all her efforts into the hotel since there were no children . |