Example sentences of "that she had [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aszal refused to leave her until , he says , at 1 a.m. they were told that she had to go to a detention centre where men were not allowed . |
| 2 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |
| 3 | She replied that she had lived in a small group of about 10 people : she indicated the number by holding up both hands with the fingers spread . |
| 4 | It seemed to her now that she had lived in a dream . |
| 5 | She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised . |
| 6 | To her great relief , however , Fabia subsequently discovered that she had asked for a quite delicious meal of venison with bacon , mushrooms and tomatoes . |
| 7 | It turned out that she had gone for a hill walk on her own with an agreed pick up point by him in the car . |
| 8 | She had seen this money before , of course , and still had a little collection of it that she had made as a child , yet it was disconcerting to reflect that Johnny would use it as part of his everyday life . |
| 9 | It was true also that she gave English lessons and that she had applied for a full-time job as an English teacher in a small private school . |
| 10 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 11 | It was suggested that she hated the wet and dreary Balmoral holidays , that she suffered from anorexia , that she had quarrelled with a number of the Prince 's household and staff , that she was only interested in clothes , that she was a lover of discotheques and neglected her husband . |
| 12 | It was impossible to do anything except admit something that she had known for a very long time . |
| 13 | Their mother , pale as the highland moon that she had known as a child , slept like a ghost embroidered on smoke . |
| 14 | She could play the heroine 's scenes from a score of films or recite long passages from the Holy Bible that she had learned as a child . |
| 15 | as if the kiss he had forced from her had been forgotten , he released her and swivelled , abruptly leaving her so that she had to follow like a servant at his heels . |
| 16 | ( 40 ) She explained that she had worked as a volunteer in the parish and had felt that in doing this she was sharing his ministry — how ask him to give it up ? |
| 17 | She replied : ‘ Yes thank you , ’ although some reporters said that she had spoken in a ‘ soulful way ’ and appeared quite miserable . |
| 18 | She moved along the counter to where , beneath it , on a narrow table , there stood a number of trays and , taking up the brass hammer , she broke the edge of the toffee and put four pieces into a newspaper cone that she had taken from a number stacked up by the side of the tray . |
| 19 | ‘ Can I get it for you ? ’ he said , seeing that she had settled into a chair . |