Example sentences of "that had [vb pp] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was grotesquely dressed in what I took to be nothing more than the two sheets that had covered her on the bench , clumsily knotted about her vast frame ; perhaps because of that , there was something poignant in those androgynous movements parodying grace . |
| 2 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 3 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 4 | Mary was certain that it was the same estate-car that had swept her into the ditch . |
| 5 | Running back down the avenue , daffodil leaves yellowing on its verges , young beech leaves playing with the light overhead , Nicandra felt purged of the morning 's unfortunate happenings : of all of them except the thrust of horror that had pierced her before the death of a lamb . |
| 6 | Would Eve be furious if Mother Francis heard the whole story of the lies , the unhappiness and the circumstances that had brought her to the other side of the city and now into a hospital bed ? |
| 7 | The following unusual use of to provides further confirmation of this : ( 25 ) She waited , Kate Croy , for her father to come in , but he kept her unconscionably , and there were moments at which she showed herself , in the glass over the mantel , a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him . |
| 8 | She had no intention of dancing another record with him ; Callum 's hands were far too slippery — in fact she was beginning to regret having anything to do with him at all ; the pleasant , confident smile that had greeted her at the beginning of the evening had now turned into a quite definite leer . |
| 9 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 10 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 11 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |