Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [verb] had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a child she had had a piggy bank ; she could recall the physical satisfaction of its jingling weight in her hands . |
| 2 | He discovered that as a girl she had had a passion for Stendhal , so had he , and they talked about Julien Sorel and Tolstoi and Rimbaud . |
| 3 | Twenty four hours before admission she had had a transitional mole removed from her back under local anaesthesia in the outpatient department . |
| 4 | Now of course she 's had a tremendous effect on , on fashion knitwear ever since she 's been involved with before . |
| 5 | All her life she had had a clear vision of who she was and where she was going . |
| 6 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |
| 7 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |
| 8 | They had said at the school she had had a screaming session . |
| 9 | Since childhood she 'd had a quite irrational dread of spiders . |
| 10 | Emily felt a flash of irritation , she had insisted that the shoemaker 's daughter take the boots away to be soled and heeled and at the same time she 'd had a fitting for some new slippers . |
| 11 | In fact she 'd had a brief nap on the flight over and the adrenalin was racing round her body , making the possibility of sleep unlikely , but anything was better than sitting like a frightened child beside him , hoping against hope that he would finally melt and utter the sort of words she had once yearned to hear . |