Example sentences of "she had the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrary to appearances , she had the requisite amount of Libran steel behind her sugar-frosting exterior . |
| 2 | The following day at Great Ormond Street , she had the four-hour operation to transplant the bone . |
| 3 | Certainly she had the lightest skin among them , but she was not red-coloured , like the red of an egg . |
| 4 | She had the tremendous feeling that Ana was speaking almost against her will , as if the words were being torn from her . |
| 5 | Then she had the severest strain put on the control of her newly awakened ear-boxing predilection when his mouth twitched at the corners and it seemed , for a moment , that her sarcasm had amused him . |
| 6 | Claudia was so outraged that she had the greatest difficulty in keeping the rage she felt enough under control for her to be coherent . |
| 7 | She had the terrible feeling that if she told her too much , gave her an excuse to poke and pry , somehow , all the safe fabric of their lives would be rent apart . |
| 8 | As she ran up the garden , her legs felt soft and boneless under her ; she had the terrible feeling that they might collapse altogether if she did n't hurry and find somewhere private , somewhere nice and safe and dark . |
| 9 | She could n't just ignore him in his own house and she had the nasty feeling that she would not have been able to ignore him anywhere . |
| 10 | She had the awful feeling she was expected to behave in some glittering , unusual way to live up to her father 's memory . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course it would n't bother me ! ’ she replied at once , but she had the awful feeling that her denial lacked the ring of truth . |
| 12 | Only she had the awful feeling that was n't the end of it at all , and that was the really scary part of all this . |
| 13 | Her head was pounding dreadfully , and she had the awful sensation that she was going to actually throw up right in front of him . |
| 14 | They had both turned as she had entered , and she had the stupid urge to tell them to carry on , she hoped she was n't interrupting anything . |
| 15 | She had the decided feeling that he was on to her , and she had n't even started yet . |
| 16 | She had the arrogant walk of people with leisure . |
| 17 | But she had the prettiest face and the sweetest smile you 've ever seen . |
| 18 | And , for once , she had the upper hand . |
| 19 | Maggie felt she had the upper hand to some extent and this had to be talked out . |
| 20 | On her high perch , she had the familiar feeling of exhilaration and apprehension . |
| 21 | She had the one thing I had always wanted . |
| 22 | He turned back to what he was doing , his long fingers working quickly and expertly at the job , and she had the faintest feeling that she was being dismissed . |
| 23 | She had the joint X-rayed on Wednesday night and was somewhat relieved to learn that it was merely a bad case of bruising . |
| 24 | hers were the number the second one out , so she had the second choice |
| 25 | Sometimes she had the oddest feeling that she would have been able to confide in Paul , to pour out to him the whole bloody silly story without causing him to bat so much as an eyelid . |
| 26 | She had the oddest impression that she was taking part in a play , for which she knew neither her lines , nor the stage directions . |
| 27 | She had the oddest desire to touch the dark curls that danced on his head . |
| 28 | she had the Canadian Ice Hockey team |
| 29 | But from the soft laugh that followed her she had the ominous feeling that he was no more convinced by her protests than she was herself . |
| 30 | It formed part of her dream ; she had the perfect home , the perfect family , the perfect husband , the perfect life and the perfect job . |