Example sentences of "she had [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unaware that she had even done it , Maura opened her legs wide . |
| 2 | In fact , she had probably done herself a great favour as , had she continued to suppress the memory , she might have caused herself great emotional problems in the future . |
| 3 | ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more . |
| 4 | And since they certainly would not pay her for the work she had already done on the trousseau , where else could she go ? |
| 5 | Nevertheless , she had invariably done her best for her child as , indeed , she was now doing for her grandchild . |
| 6 | She had just done a course in assertiveness and when she was unkind ( which she was often ) she would say , ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry ’ , and then ‘ No , actually I 'm not sorry ! ’ |
| 7 | The Josephs were squabbling about whether Merlyn should have done what she had just done , whether Barbara Coleman had not truly deserved it . |
| 8 | I asked her how much writing she had lately done , and she laughed , and said she was learning so much , so very much , and when it was all learned she should have new matter to write about and many new things to say . |
| 9 | She had often done that in the early days of their marriage , and he had found it quite charming . |
| 10 | She had promised to take me sailing , and Paula had let her borrow the boat for a few hours , as she had often done before . |
| 11 | Even so , she had meekly done as they wished and taken on a responsibility that was clearly a bit of a burden . |
| 12 | Mrs Bennett would have a fit if she knew Celia had gone up to Beckwith 's Folly , but it was n't the first time lately that she had been overwhelmed by the desire to escape , although it was the first time she had actually done anything about it . |
| 13 | She did n't in the least mind being accused of having done something she had actually done . |
| 14 | She had better do so by April 10 or it will be too late . ’ |
| 15 | In fact , the only embarrassing moment the entire afternoon came when Daphne carried the tray out into the kitchen — something I suspected she had seldom done before — and spotted my final school report pinned to the pantry door . |
| 16 | After all , she told herself in extenuation , this was the first thing she had ever done to please herself … but , said a small voice — ‘ but ’ is surely the most miserable little word in the English language — but … they had n't asked to come into this vale of tears … . |
| 17 | Jennie asked Katharine if she had ever done any lateral work . |
| 18 | That was the easiest thing she had ever done , but Sean was the type who thought that she enjoyed it . |
| 19 | All the dancing that she had ever done had been at three school dances , and in sessions for instruction in the art of the polka , the mazurka , and the tarantella , and she did not think they would be much help to her now . |
| 20 | She had spoken more warmly to him tonight than she had ever done when she was unmarried and free to speak as warmly as she liked . |
| 21 | Anthony introduced Comfort , who immediately started talking in fluent , fast Italian , which made Julia feel as inadequate and insular as she had ever done at Comfort 's university parties . |
| 22 | Maria had been feeling more vulnerable than she had ever done in her life , but now she lost her temper . |
| 23 | He was making her think more deeply about herself than she had ever done . |
| 24 | Her duties over , she played chess with him in the evening , or childish card and board games with him and Matey , laughed , talked and read , in some odd way enjoying herself in this hard life more than she had ever done before in her old soft one . |
| 25 | Making her way to the wings , then waiting for her cue , was probably the hardest thing she had ever done in her life . |
| 26 | Which had to be the craziest thing she had ever done . |
| 27 | She had dutifully done so and together they had selected an array of clothes in the deep greens and blues , the rich wine shades that Thomas said best set off her porcelain skin and burnished hair . |
| 28 | It seemed as though she had hardly done anything , it had all been so simple . |
| 29 | She had never convinced herself of the reality of her pregnancy , she had never done anything about it . |
| 30 | Suddenly , she threw her arms around him and hugged him fiercely in a way she had never done before . |