Example sentences of "she had [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was an old woman , she wore a red wig , and she had black teeth . |
| 4 | She had black eyebrows despite the colour of her hair , and a little Roman nose . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 'Appen she had better things to do , eh , George ? ’ |
| 8 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 9 | She had better things to do , a world to conquer and so forth , who did he think he was ? — Foreigners can be dogged . |
| 10 | But , she decided , when she got up on Saturday morning , she had better things to do than to let such matters worry her . |
| 11 | With a stuffed-to-capacity briefcase , she had better things to do with her time too , anyway . |
| 12 | She had better legs than Gabriel , and knew it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had nice knockers , mind you ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Quite apart from anything else , she had serious doubts about how indifferent she could remain if Julius came any closer . |
| 18 | All who knew her felt this : she had cruel enemies , the mad , the diseased , the godless , the savage and the greedy hated her . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She had blue eyes . |
| 23 | She had not troubled to dress , despite , or perhaps because of , the fact that she had male visitors . |
| 24 | She had great qualities , Mum , of charm and kindness and general decency , but would anyone ever appreciate them and not hurt her ? |
| 25 | She had great misgivings . |
| 26 | Jo loathed her blobby nose , her receding chin , her long body , her short legs , her droopy ass , her fat thighs , her white skin that absolutely refused to tan and her brown hair which frizzed and which her mother would n't even let her frost ; she accepted that she would never look like Faye Dunaway , never be a Prom Queen and that most of her body was a total disaster area , but she knew with absolute certainty that she had great tits . |
| 27 | ‘ Before she went to university she had great expectations but when she got there she was disappointed . |
| 28 | She had five managers in mind , who mostly were to be found in the same quarter of London . |
| 29 | ( She seemed to me to be about eighteen years old , although as we walked along she told me she had five children , all happily married . ) |
| 30 | She had five children by King Charles 11 , her three sons all became Dukes and her two daughters both married Earls . |