Example sentences of "she had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had rarely heard him speak with such vehemence , never seen him so angry . |
| 2 | She had rarely felt like this before but too much was now oppressing her . |
| 3 | She had rarely seen him outside the context of the family . |
| 4 | And she had rarely met anyone with a sharper eye , or a truer judgement on people . |
| 5 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had rarely enjoyed herself so much as she was now doing , seated in Dr Neil 's kitchen , dressed like a skivvy and eating a huge meal , rather than languidly nibbling at it , as she would have done at one of Aunt Nella 's ‘ At Homes ’ . |
| 6 | They did n't enter the room he had come from , but Travis led her down to one she had rarely used . |
| 7 | She had continuously offered her services to the RCM committee as a foster parent , but they had never found a suitable child and perhaps also felt that she was too poor to cope . |
| 8 | She had either fallen or been pushed on to a spike on the plough ; the level of her blood alcohol gave some credence to the idea that she had fallen . |
| 9 | The mother , notwithstanding what she had previously said about not taking the child out of the jurisdiction without an order of the court , nevertheless left Ontario for England on the very next day , 3 July 1991 . |
| 10 | Dr Neil wanted to tell her to be careful , that she really had little idea of how hard and cruel the world was outside the privileged fastness in which she had previously lived , but he contented himself with saying instead , ‘ Have a good time , McAllister . |
| 11 | She had previously limited her expression of that disapproval to hints , and to glancing remarks ; now , clearly , she had decided the time had come to be more open . |
| 12 | After reading the article Mrs Marjorie Ellerton of Gunnergate Lane , Marton , contacted the D&S to reveal that she had previously complained to Mr Woodhouse about a mistake in his book on Middlesbrough . |
| 13 | Emily left me one of her large paintings of the green B.C. forests in her will ; she had previously given me two of her books . |
| 14 | She had to work her way up the system again , but decided to stay a rung below that which she had previously reached . |
| 15 | Not the result of R.A.F. manoeuvres , or the preparations for some local Air Show , as she had previously imagined . |
| 16 | In that unhappy mood he went to Paris to meet the designer Balanchine had stipulated , Dorothea Tanning , who followed the surrealist manner she had previously applied to one of Balanchine 's own ballets , Night Shadow . |
| 17 | She had previously won the Oloman-Ellis Award ( see page : 109 ) and been elected a Grand Councillor both for her work for the BDA in her own branch — Leeds — and region — North Regional Council — , on the national executive , As editor of a Newsletter and of hundreds of " Congress Bulletins " , and as fund-raiser extraordinary for deaf sporting activities . |
| 18 | She had previously worked as one of the three founders and directors of the London International Opera Festival . |
| 19 | She pretended to search in the folds of her habit , where she had previously concealed the fox bag . |
| 20 | Rain passed them , looking in shop windows where she had previously admired goods . |
| 21 | She had previously benefitted from a credit and loan scheme , but had been unable to continue due to lack of funds . |
| 22 | The accommodation was crowded and to Miss Logan 's mind far filthier than anything she had previously encountered . |
| 23 | When she had aimed the bottle at Gazzer 's head , years of pent-up hurt and frustration had spilled over into violence : violence which she had previously directed against herself or had lived through only in her mind . |
| 24 | He seemed too young and vibrant for work she had previously thought to be the province of uniformed men with starched collars and even stiffer demeanours . |
| 25 | Irene had three much older spinster sisters who adored her , and her one consolation when she was discharged from the Waaf was that she had somewhere to go and three loving sisters to look after her . |
| 26 | He said nothing , did nothing , and for a few seconds , she thought she had finally silenced him . |
| 27 | That afternoon , hearing him talk about his sister , then lying beneath the trees with him , she had really thought she had finally broken through to a real live human being beneath the glacial exterior . |
| 28 | ‘ It was n't your fault , ’ she had finally said . |
| 29 | Then , when she had finally gone into labour , Edith had been left to birth alone in her bedroom with only their mother 's reprimanding voice to help her along . |
| 30 | She had barely slept last night — even what little of it had been left when she had finally crawled beneath the bedcovers . |