Example sentences of "she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her family heard she had been taken to the Regional Command Military camp in Legaspi City . |
| 2 | Her mother was only about 21 at the time — she had been married when only 13 . |
| 3 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 4 | She ‘ knew ’ that ‘ she had come to a place at the end of the world ’ , a backwater where there was no action at all . |
| 5 | He asks the daughter of the refugee cook , remembering the days when he made love with this daughter , if she had known two different boys . |
| 6 | She had known that his love for her would remain , and ‘ for her to have acted on that knowledge ’ in resorting to the deception ‘ made her deed unforgivable ’ . |
| 7 | Glasser talks of her as if , in walking out , she had gone on to walk the streets . |
| 8 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 9 | The husband of the cleaning woman had been a soldier , and she had said that he had had no choice but to obey his orders to shoot Jews . |
| 10 | Ellen O ‘ Malley , though she had long retired , was a wonderful teacher too . |
| 11 | She had played a lot of Shaw including Candida ; and created Ellie Dunn in Heartbreak House , named after her by Shaw . |
| 12 | A campaign begun in 1971 to repeal the ban dating from 1935 culminated in the famous appeal of Mrs McGee to the Supreme Court to declare she had a right to use contraceptives . |
| 13 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
| 14 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 15 | Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace . |
| 16 | She had spotted the cigarette smoke from afar and now she could see his feet protruding from under the canvas . |
| 17 | She had evidently decided that the policeman was a handsome as well as an agreeable fellow . |
| 18 | When she was eighteen and had actually been accepted at Chelsea Art School , she had been determined to be somebody wonderful , somebody famous , like Amelia Earhart or Margaret Mead . |
| 19 | Sighing over lands and wonders lost , she had accepted the inevitable . |
| 20 | She had been brought up a good Church of England girl — she knew the drill . |
| 21 | Mrs Venables ' cake was — as she had said — a perfect coffee gâteau , smoothly frosted in caramel , with three cherries on the top . |
| 22 | There were tears on the unremarkable face of Mrs Phipps , but she had made no sound , from the minute of entering the tent until now . |
| 23 | She had learned , over the past five years , that a vicar 's wife is expected to be sympathetic , helpful , and above reproach . |
| 24 | To her credit , whatever other social solecisms the inexperienced Peggy might have committed during their stay in Little Tuckett , she had never betrayed a confidence . |
| 25 | She had soon learned that almost everybody has something they want to hide , and something they 're eager to share . |
| 26 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 27 | She had broken her neck . |
| 28 | All she had to do was look at the champagne the way she looked at me and you 'd be able to skate on it . |
| 29 | She was n't saying anything , but Ma smiled at her as if she had done something very clever . |
| 30 | Anyway , the forensic scientists will be able to confirm she had someone in with her . |