Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she had broken free with a scandalized exclamation : ‘ Damien ! |
| 2 | Now , however , she had grown tired of Davis , and her excuses to avoid being alone with him became more frequent . |
| 3 | Craig had been staying with her for some weeks now and she had grown used to seeing him there in her kitchen . |
| 4 | There were no small industries around the town , so few working mothers , so no call for the baby minding she had grown accustomed to . |
| 5 | She had grown fond of Betty and found her thought-processes amusing . |
| 6 | Paul too ; for as she had come to know him better , she had grown fond of Paul ; dear , tactless Paul , who could be relied upon to mention the unmentionable , but whose kindness and gentle sense of humour were most appealing . |
| 7 | She had no time to dwell on the unhappiness of two people of whom she had grown fond , however , for just then her phone rang again . |
| 8 | His jokes with her had started jamming , and she had grown steely and even gone through his pockets . |
| 9 | ( It 's fair to point out that she had grown suspicious of modern collaborations after her previous disastrous involvement with the BEF ‘ Music Of Quality And Distinction ’ version of ‘ Anyone Who Had A Heart ’ . ) |
| 10 | She had attended slide-illustrated talks on the agricultural problems of vast and distant continents . |
| 11 | He had been unpopular in the city since an inquiry in 1321 which led to the curbing of the city 's liberties ; the citizens had probably helped Mortimer to escape from the Tower , and Froissart , who was a Hainaulter himself and may have written on good authority , said that even before Isabella landed she had received secret assurances of support from them . |
| 12 | She knew she had visited heavy housework upon herself because of her attitude . |
| 13 | She had collected fresh bread on the way through the little villages and had also bought fruit and vegetables . |
| 14 | There were not so many of them : five , to be precise , and one of those was Charles , and another her first husband Edgar Lintot , to whom she had remained married for less than a year . |
| 15 | But she could still recall , quite vividly , how it had been when she and Tom had married , just as soon as he had been able to dispense with his crutches : their brief but ecstatic honeymoon , the way he had so gently and expertly initiated her into the pleasures of sex and how , in spite of all his subsequent straying , she had remained faithful , forgiving and in love with him , in her own way , right to the end . |
| 16 | She had remained quiet in his grasp , offering no active resistance , aware that it would be useless . |
| 17 | But the court heard that after the defendant had been left alone on the ward with Katie for about ten minutes , she had turned blue and stopped breathing . |
| 18 | She had turned other men — men she did n't hate — away at her door before now without going through all this prior angst , meeting the moment with the tact or firmness it required when it came , but not before . |
| 19 | Within eight hours she had developed central abdominal pain , vomiting , and distension . |
| 20 | Her long and anxious wait for breakfast had caused her so much stress , that she had developed colic and died . |
| 21 | Within hours of her sister 's death she had developed swelling of the eyelids and face . |
| 22 | And our sister paper the Sunday Mirror revealed yesterday she had given 37-year-old Bryan a room there . |
| 23 | Her progress had been one of near-collisions , dodging round cases and people , and just as the gate she 'd wanted had come in sight she had seen Lori and a man passing through . |
| 24 | She had seen English newspapers only on odd occasions when friends , or her then lover , came out to visit her . |
| 25 | Since Silly-Willie 's birth she had lived far away at the grand end of the West Avenue , in the Gate Lodge , which she kept as spruce as any bedroom in the Big House . |
| 26 | Alone in the room she had stripped naked and run herself a bath , trying to wash away the sweat and relax after her ordeal . |
| 27 | Maxim had noticed how she had adopted certain American phrases and mannerisms as well , not because she was trying to pass as an American , but just to blend into the background . |
| 28 | In other years she had displayed appropriate sympathy about sports day . |
| 29 | Susan did not answer at once ; in fact , she was silent for such a long time that Breeze , who could not see her face , wondered if she had fallen asleep . |
| 30 | One moment she was sobbing her heart out , then , lulled by the bearlike warmth of his chest and the comforting shelter of his great arms and shoulders , she had fallen asleep like a child . |