Example sentences of "she had [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Respect for the dead , ’ he said , speaking to Carrie quite angrily , as if she had questioned this action . |
| 2 | I thought she had matured this past year with me but all my hard work to get her to face up to her responsibilities crumbled when Steve came back on the scene . ’ |
| 3 | Now she had to wear this metal cage to stop the bones in her neck crumbling . |
| 4 | She had to revise this at Angel and again at Old Street . |
| 5 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 6 | She knew she had seen this man not just in the fog , but in the Rockingham public house . |
| 7 | She had seen this money before , of course , and still had a little collection of it that she had made as a child , yet it was disconcerting to reflect that Johnny would use it as part of his everyday life . |
| 8 | She had seen this expression , this lack of expression , this closing in and down , on the face of the demon baby Ruth had once been . |
| 9 | After half a mile she had rejected this hypothesis and decided that it was merely because she was unattractive , the sort of person who , fifty years ago , would have worn rubber galoshes . |
| 10 | She knows that if she had pointed this out to William , and expressed her own wish to take child , and papers , to the Common , William would obligingly have offered to stay at home and chop carrots and peel potatoes and keep an eye on the lamb in the oven . |
| 11 | She felt humiliated by her poverty , especially when the telephone was cut off for non-payment and she had to confess this to Gilda , the senior assistant in the shoe shop . |
| 12 | She had decided this was the theme , exactly what Lucy needed , locked in work and the vagaries of her maverick genius boy-child . |
| 13 | She half-smiled , and one knew that she had decided this was the end . ’ |
| 14 | But she made up her mind , did n't she , that she had to publish this book under a man 's name ? |
| 15 | She had witnessed this event before . |
| 16 | She had defended this unconventional opinion , and undercut the threatened ostracism of her playground peers , by broadcasting her intention , too ludicrous to take seriously , that she should grow up to be a spacewoman . |
| 17 | I guessed now that she had met this other man during her widowhood . |
| 18 | In her words ‘ I find myself blaming this for my self-hate , my lack of confidence , my feeling of , ‘ how can anyone love me ’ ’ She had kept this a secret and this was the first time it had been put on paper . |
| 19 | She had kept this plant for many years and whenever we had light showers it was popped outside , a treatment that seemed to agree with it . |
| 20 | She had contacted this Mrs , would you like to do some planting ? |
| 21 | Such things she had heard this day ! |
| 22 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 23 | The humiliating knowledge that those tender , ardent caresses — indeed , his every action since she had awoken this morning — had been coldly calculated shattered her fragile composure in seconds . |
| 24 | She had intended this to be no more than a comradely rebuke . |
| 25 | As soon as she had announced this fact , she pushed past him roughly , on her way to the kitchen . |
| 26 | She had risen this morning with the intention of going into town and meandering among the shops , perhaps treating herself to a new bonnet , or buying Cissie those pretty boots she had so admired some days ago when the two of them had walked up and down Ainsworth Street , browsing in all the shop-windows ; afterwards , Beth might have called in to the delightful tea rooms at the comer of the boulevard . |
| 27 | She had conquered this feeling sufficiently to allow her to accept visits from her friends , and had overcome the apologetic murmurs that used to assail her as she opened her bedroom door ; she felt , in part , absolved by the wonderfully institutional shape of her room , which was on the third floor of a large block in the middle of Regents Park . |
| 28 | It was odd to think that even without his talent she had inherited this from her father . |
| 29 | He knew that she had been the owner of a house in which murder had been effected ; he knew that she had inherited this house from her uncle , Ted Mosse , an old man who was himself worth investigating . |
| 30 | A fortnight after she had made this earth-shattering discovery she was amazed when he stuttered out an invitation to the cinema . |