Example sentences of "[adj] that she had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other speakers followed , but it soon became clear that she had spoken for ail present . |
| 2 | It was so hot outside that she had settled for an orange cheesecloth caftan , which she 'd jacked in with a belt of linked gold hippos . |
| 3 | It had been a rough race and Kelly had been glad that she had elected to be among the leaders throughout . |
| 4 | But that , too , was the time when Mrs Aggie struck her so hard that she had fallen on her back , and all because she had called Mrs Nelson ‘ a bloody cow ’ . |
| 5 | Last year at the RSC , she said , she 'd gone all the way through the season and had worked so hard that she had forgotten about drawing . |
| 6 | Would n't Veronica think it suspicious that she had gone to the lengths of calling two days running ? |
| 7 | It was obvious that she had come into the laboratory after the blow had been struck , and had in fact seen very little . |
| 8 | Clelia 's visit , however , was all that she had hoped for . |
| 9 | ‘ No one … ’ began Sally-Anne passionately , thinking of all that she had seen since arriving in Vetch Street — the poor creatures in Dr Neil 's surgery , and the even poorer ones who could not afford to go there — and of Dr Neil 's own selflessness letting people off their bills , so that only the small income he still received from an aunt 's legacy allowed him to keep going at all , when he could have been revelling with Stair . |
| 10 | Here was the most loved owner in British racing , the most adored individual in British society , about to win the country 's greatest steeplechase — a fitting reward for all that she had put into the sport . |
| 11 | ‘ What do you want ? ’ she asked mutinously , deliriously thankful that she had succeeded in not succumbing to the urge to blub her eyes out when she had dashed out of the living-room . |
| 12 | Although as she changed from bus to bus she was free at last of the accusing voices , she had time for a number of second thoughts , wishing in particular that she had put on other clothes , and had had her hair cut . |
| 13 | The threat of exposure hanging over her , so close that she had dwelled since — since when ? — as if she inhabited a thick cloud of suffocating fog . |
| 14 | Neither Matthew nor the girl was aware that she had come into the room , and as Beth 's eyes went from the unique expression of wonder on the boy 's handsome face , to the girl 's slender form … the small budding breasts , and the young limbs that were already shaping into those of a young woman … a strange sense of revulsion shivered through her . |