Example sentences of "she had [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This she had painted in a warm red tone , which complemented the dark wood and brass handles of her grandfather 's furniture . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had dressed in a vivid red blouse and a loose woollen blue cardigan , and she had tied her long dark hair into a pony tail with an orange scarf . |
| 5 | They fell upon the red hour-glass painted on Big Momma 's abdomen as she swung down a thread of silk and revolved slowly round on the thread until she had landed on a flat shiny surface . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't worry , Matey , ’ he said to her , leaving the room of many memories , putting his arms about her , seeing with new eyes how old she had grown , and that he was all she had , the last of the many children for whom she had cared in a long life of selfless service . |
| 7 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 8 | She had fallen into a deep and dreamless sleep , the first time in a fortnight she had slept so well , when Quinn nudged her awake . |
| 9 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had heard of a German drug called Aslocillin which she thought could help and so she pulled every string to find a supply . |
| 13 | ‘ Liberator ’ was a role familiar to her : in the sixth century she had posed as a political giant-killer , putting down tyrannies in mainland Greece and even on the islands . |
| 14 | As a child she had suffered from a mild case of polio , which left one leg slightly shorter than the other . |
| 15 | She shared the perplexity she had felt as a young officer when she first discovered that a certain number of votes were required to elect a General . |
| 16 | But not before she had answered in a firm tone , ‘ Definitely . ’ |
| 17 | It would take too long and she would n't understand ; besides , she had phoned at a bad moment — Anne was obviously in a hurry to go out . |
| 18 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 19 | ‘ If industry does n't help me to achieve the objectives of the Government , we will have to take appropriate alternative steps , ’ she had said with a steely smile . |
| 20 | She had gone to a convalescent home in Bournemouth . |
| 21 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |
| 22 | She had observed with a quiet pleasure how the strident Roscoe woman had markedly cooled towards her former partner after his refusal ( and that of most of the others ) to sign her petulant letter of complaint concerning Sheila Williams . |
| 23 | She had stopped in a busy street in Cardiff city centre after a shopping trip , and left the engine running after hearing a strange noise . |
| 24 | But , regardless of how she felt , she had to put on a good face . |
| 25 | For Kirsty 's sake she had to put on a bright face . |
| 26 | She had written about a brilliant girl who in spite of two years of blindness would one day represent Spain as her illustrious brother had done . |
| 27 | Rugs in jewel shades of emerald and topaz were thrown over the terracotta-tiled floor and the curtains , like the sofa and armchair covers , she had sewn from a heavy cream fabric . |
| 28 | She had hoped for a new freedom , but had found a trap . |
| 29 | But Winnie , in all , though glad he was sick , that he had not jilted her , would have much preferred a broken leg — she had hoped for a broken leg — than the way he was , like those newsreel horrors : Hitler 's Jews , like something out of Belsen . |
| 30 | ‘ Freda- through-the-wall ’ was her nickname for her neighbour whom she frequently invited in , particularly when she had to cope with a sticky social situation . |