Example sentences of "she had [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd ge nothing everything she did she had to sort of beautify it and put some embroidery on it . |
| 2 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 3 | He gambled and drank , and she had to humour him always to prevent him from flying into rages … . |
| 4 | However , it was n't often she had to fork out the coppers when pushing the hand cart through The Courts . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe it was somethin' she had for breakfast , ’ Sonny said . |
| 6 | When a sender judges her receiver 's schema to correspond to a significant degree with her own , she need only mention features which are not contained in it ( the time of getting up and what she had for breakfast , for example ) ; other features ( like getting out of bed and getting dressed ) will be assumed to be present by default , unless we are told otherwise . |
| 7 | The reverence she had for glamour touched him . |
| 8 | She was wearing the white apron she had for cookery classes at school and was tidying up the house because the doctor was coming . |
| 9 | Gloria came every day , just as she had for Baby . |
| 10 | She was all set to paint , but when Vitor slid his hands into his trouser pockets and , with jacket flaring back , strolled across to inspect the items which she had for sale , her gaze compulsively followed him . |
| 11 | And Ben was all she had for companionship ; those who would have been her so-called friends she would n't let over her step , and those she would have liked to call friends would n't come near her step . |
| 12 | However , she knew that she could n't stand at the window indefinitely , so she left it to complete the task she had on hand . |
| 13 | Tall , pretty , vivacious , with an eager and obvious appetite for every kind of experience , she fell in and out of love , as she had at school and college . |
| 14 | She had of course a long-lasting career after that ; her voice survived , a little worn and reduced in range but still sturdy and steady , till retirement in 1951 , and her bestknown operatic recordings ( the HMV Rosenkavalier and first two acts of Die Walküre were made in her mid and late forties . |
| 15 | She had of course questioned the decision that had left her heiress to Tara , while Fergus , so indisputably a leader , so plainly possessing the natural authority Grainne believed she lacked , was relegated to the command of the Fiana . |
| 16 | Instead , more tentatively , he said : ‘ I suppose Hilda had given anything she had of interest to Mr Kronweiser before she died . ’ |
| 17 | Unlike Jeanne of Artois , whom he judged to be ‘ prodigal and immoral ’ , the pope thought Margaret well able take the place of a mother and commended her to philip V. She had in effect governed Béarn , and governed it well , since Gaston I 's death in 1315 , but was to die in 1319 . |
| 18 | She would have eaten it anyway because she was hungry , she was nearly always hungry , it was almost the only thing she had in common with Weenie . |
| 19 | Oh , she had the chic that seemed to be the birthright of all French women , but she had nothing else at all , unless it was the rather fine dark eyes , the only thing she had in common with her tall and impressive son . |
| 20 | She had in fact made totally adequate arrangements for the children to be absorbed into a part of her extended family that none of us knew about . |
| 21 | How could she think that when she had in fact entrammelled herself in terrible evil bonds , luxuriating even in her bondage ? |
| 22 | She had in fact been referred to privately as ‘ The Mother of Us All ’ for some time . |
| 23 | The allegation had been spoken so quietly that he doubted whether she had in fact heard it . |
| 24 | Twelve days later I received a call from an exultant Sylvia who told me that , on the previous evening , she had in fact managed to go right into the cupboard and switch off the light . |
| 25 | So down the wide staircase she goes , past the oak chest with its bowl of white roses on the half-landing , past the Albers squares , past the dim varnished portrait of a full-bosomed crimson gowned pearl-decked eighteenth-century woman who some take to be an ancestor , though she had in fact come with the house , down through the black and white tiled hall with its marble and gilt claw-legged table strewn with Christmas cards , gloves , and glossy free advertising magazines , and into the broad high first floor drawing-room , where sat Charles , drinking a gin and tonic , which she had expected , and talking to Esther and Alix , which she had not . |
| 26 | Penny added to her load a pile of books she had in fact marked yesterday . |
| 27 | She had in fact taken one A level , her law exam but only in fact achieved a D grade . |
| 28 | The news that she had in fact been successful in her interview went a very long way to ease her bruised feelings — so much so that when the day dawned when she was to start her new job she almost forgot to pull her hair back into a screwed-up knot , and to don her glasses . |
| 29 | Fabia saw no point in butting in to comment that she had in fact come very close to doing that very thing , and after a few moments ' pause Ven went on , ‘ I knew I 'd bruised your pride , but that had been necessary when my desire for you had threatened to blot out reason . |
| 30 | He thought he would not care if she had in truth done so , although he knew it to have been unnecessary . |