Example sentences of "she had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had prominent teeth and dyed black hair swept back in the style of a souvenir Greek goddess . |
| 2 | For Americans she had scant respect and considered them to be nouveau riche upstarts , not good enough to hold a candle to the real thing . |
| 3 | Stevie might have tended to exaggerate , but although she had rich parents , she worked as a waitress in Los Angeles to support Lindsey , and they roughed it around a bit . |
| 4 | Hers was also a significant name because she had black hair and her disappearance was reported on May 17th . |
| 5 | She had black hair and great stormy black eyes , and there was gold at her ears and round her neck . |
| 6 | She had black hair , too , a sort of spiky cut , but that was the fashion then . |
| 7 | She drifted pleasantly away , finding herself at the theatre with Kate Maybury , but she had black hair and carried a colander , and in the colander lay a tiny baby , but Mrs Maybury would n't let her see it , just told her to watch the show . |
| 8 | Like she had black hair and |
| 9 | She was an old woman , she wore a red wig , and she had black teeth . |
| 10 | She had black eyebrows despite the colour of her hair , and a little Roman nose . |
| 11 | She had black eyes , black brows and a mouth that was a bold slash of dark red against the pale — almost white — matt of her make-up . |
| 12 | She had real women friends : pretty , witty women more likely to speculate on a swift method of fermenting potato peel than slaver over wild sorrel . |
| 13 | Charles says , with relish : ‘ I do n't know whether a psychologist would say it was the trauma of the divorce but she had real difficulty telling the truth purely because she liked to embellish things . |
| 14 | Slender though she was , she had real stamina . |
| 15 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 16 | She had real strength in her . |
| 17 | If he had guessed that she had prior knowledge , he was not prepared to say so . |
| 18 | She had bare shoulders and arms ; a heavy gold and ebony bracelet ; an enormously long necklace of what looked like sapphires , though I presumed they must be paste , or ultramarines . |
| 19 | And I wondered what she had blonde hair for . |
| 20 | The presentation took place in the showroom where she also received a Caithness Crystal glass vase given by her friends in the factory and warehouse with whom she had close links for many years . |
| 21 | But she had nice hair — not so long as Marie 's , but just as shiny . |
| 22 | She had nice knockers , mind you ! |
| 23 | It looked like some enormous battery-powered bug , and she had serious misgivings as to whether it would make it out of the garage , never mind to Nice . |
| 24 | Quite apart from anything else , she had serious doubts about how indifferent she could remain if Julius came any closer . |
| 25 | When she asked her opinion of a radio programme , Mrs O replied that , as she had total hearing loss , she did n't hear the programme . |
| 26 | All who knew her felt this : she had cruel enemies , the mad , the diseased , the godless , the savage and the greedy hated her . |
| 27 | In the ensuing proceedings the local authority were the applicants , W. 's aunt was first respondent since she had parental responsibilities concurrently with those of the local authority and W. was the second respondent by the Official Solicitor as her guardian ad litem . |
| 28 | Six months before her husband died in April 1803 , she had a letter from Coutts her bankers to say she had outstanding bills for £700 but her current account balance stood at 12s 11d . |
| 29 | After the Act she might have believed that she had reasonable grounds for making her demand and that her threat was a proper means of reinforcing the demand . |
| 30 | She had blue eyes . |