Example sentences of "had [verb] her [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ease with which he had provoked her own tumultuous response alarmed her . |
| 2 | Which meant that something else , apart from the defence of Silvia , had provoked her own furious outburst yesterday evening . |
| 3 | She welcomed her mother 's suggestion of Dudley Poplak , a discreet South African-born interior designer who had furnished her own homes . |
| 4 | Carol Wilson , who had joined in Music Publishing and signed Sting 's songwriting to the company ( but not Sting as an artist ) had developed her own label , DinDisc , under the Virgin umbrella , which in 1980 gave the company one of its best-selling artists , Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark . |
| 5 | FitzAlan 's misgivings had aroused her own unease about the Empress 's true motives , but she was growing too sleepy to reason it out now . |
| 6 | Just for a moment she let her hand linger on his sleeve , then slowly withdrew it , wondering if she was glad or sorry that he had given her such an insight into what made him the man he was today . |
| 7 | The old Gina , the one who had guarded her own virginity as if it had been her sole worth , would have awakened from the experience ashamed and remorseful . |
| 8 | Tallis wondered if she had undertaken her own form of self-mutilation . |
| 9 | But this — was as though Fox had died and was still dying , and had enjoyed her own kill … . |
| 10 | It seemed there was no love for the boy in this house , and though Sarah could hardly believe it , Maggie had let her own well-being be bought at Patrick 's expense . |
| 11 | Such a different walk from the day she arrived and had carried her own bag into the house . |
| 12 | His lips had shown a passion and need that had equalled her own but he had not pressed it any further . |
| 13 | His eyes made a comprehensive sweep of her and she realised belatedly that , in the hangover from her nightmare , she had forgotten her own state of undress . |
| 14 | And , of course , the fact that Jeanette Winterson had picked her own novel as her ‘ Book of the Year ’ had to be dragged up again . |
| 15 | She had to find her own way , in the damp , in the shadows , by the light of forty-watt bulbs , in the solitary evenings . |
| 16 | She had to find her own way to the bathroom and was pleased with herself for so quickly remembering that it lay at the end of the passage . |
| 17 | Susan had met her several times , and had always said she 'd like to know her better . |
| 18 | She had whispered her own last goodbye at a Liverpool dockyard gate , though she had not known it . |
| 19 | Dr Neil had seen her few poor items of food decently arranged upon a napkin in the bottom of the basket , and there seemed little doubt that she was actually living in the district — although why he could not imagine . |
| 20 | It is built in a style which England had made her own . |
| 21 | She had made her own , to love him again , and it was all she could live with at the moment . |
| 22 | He had written her several letters , and had had two prim replies . |
| 23 | He had written her several letters , and had had two prim replies . |
| 24 | And since that movement , that rejection , Alix had felt her own desire diminish . |
| 25 | She 'd half expected he would want to make love with her again , had felt her own body liquefy with musky desire for him . |
| 26 | Gingerly she felt her mouth with her fingertips ; they came away with a splattering of blood where she had bitten her own lip . |
| 27 | She had bought her own copy of the Koran and was to be seen reading it on her way to work in the morning . |
| 28 | Theda had thought her own small portion would come next , but the lawyer cleared his throat again , and read on . |
| 29 | She was never to think of that dream without some of its investing emotions , shame and irritation , even after a man at a party in 1969 had told her such dreams are dreamed typically by those unlikely to fail plausible and real exams . |
| 30 | Emma had told her several times she did not wish to be repaid . |