Example sentences of "[conj] she had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she had run out of steam and no longer cared whether she lived or died , there was no way she was going to give up . |
| 2 | And , although she had come up with the idea of a visit to Oxford very much on the spur of the moment , it was n't a bad one . |
| 3 | She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her . |
| 4 | After two years her owner felt that she had run out of options : Anna was a horse without a future : she could never be a riding horse , nor would she ever breed . |
| 5 | Only George knew that she had run off to Brighton with a salesman , but his mother had guessed as much and beaten her daughter 's whereabouts out of him with a belt . |
| 6 | Thus , when Remedios the Beauty disappears , the narrative records the fact that outsiders were of the opinion that she had run off with a man and that the story of her ascent into heaven was an invention of her family to cover up the scandal . |
| 7 | This is how it would often be now that she had cast off in her own little ship of independence . |
| 8 | And the teacher , too , might have made the same terrible mistake that she had made back in Teheran all those years before . |
| 9 | Marion whispered and turned away because she could n't bear to be there when something died , when all the love that she had bottled up inside herself evaporated like liquid left out in the sun . |
| 10 | Now he would know that she had rushed out of the solar , half dressed , to find him . |
| 11 | She disappeared last weekend , sparking a joke from Australia 's Foreign Minister Gareth Evans that she had ended up on the dinner table of Chinese dictator Deng Xiaoping . |
| 12 | It seemed rather typical of her luck that she had ended up with the wrong sort of cat , and she could n't help wondering if Miss Hardbroom had made sure that the misfit kitten had been given to Mildred , rather than someone like Ethel . |
| 13 | Matthew wondered whether it was simply a lucky draw from the gene pool that she had ended up with such spectacular looks , or was it the result of years of careful nurturing ? |
| 14 | The governor 's pet was found by joggers after fears that she had ended up in a Chinese meal . |
| 15 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 16 | Then as he turned towards her the overhead lights that she had switched on to look through her dresses shone directly onto his face and she noticed how pale and drawn he looked , lines that were usually unnoticeable etched between nose and mouth , eyes almost feverishly bright . |
| 17 | At first he had assumed that she had climbed down to the lower deck and gone forward . |
| 18 | Maureen Randall , who led the protest group Combwich Residents Environmental Concern with her husband John , said at the end of the inquiry that she had started off with ‘ no particular views on nuclear power ’ . |
| 19 | She was still wearing the ugly straw that she had put on for morning church . |
| 20 | She could remember vividly the first time she had tried dope , the day that she had found out about her mother 's affair from one of her classmates . |
| 21 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 22 | As soon as he walked through the door of the rather dark basement flat in the Bayswater Road and heard her explain that Pauline 's boyfriend was ill so she had gone off to his place to see what she could do for him , Freddie wanted to flee . |
| 23 | Juliet had managed to grab a cup of coffee and a sandwich , but had been reluctant to leave Wendy Target virtually alone on the ward , so she had hurried back after ten minutes . |
| 24 | Once she had faced up to that , it was an easy decision . |
| 25 | ‘ For this same reason once she had caught up with her husband ( and been sent quickly home as being very undutiful and immoral travelling about alone and not remaining in her place at home against his return ) it would have been inconceivable for her to go to the police . |
| 26 | She had n't even known herself where she would be staying until she had walked out of the station the day before and asked a taxi-driver to take her somewhere clean and as cheap as possible . |
| 27 | Her social life seemed to be quite full , and she had gone out with a young man on a couple of occasions . |
| 28 | Even in the little time she had had since yesterday ( and she had sent out at once for gossip papers . |
| 29 | He had barely glanced at her , and she had blurted out on the spur of the moment , ‘ Fine . |
| 30 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |