Example sentences of "she had [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cowering beneath the bookcase , Mildred dared not move in case she had begun to be visible again . |
| 2 | It was only as the girl grew older and she realized that her mother was simply mouthing words and had no intention whatsoever of carrying out her threat that she had begun to be able to relax and enjoy what was left of her childhood . |
| 3 | Furthermore , she had grown to be grateful for the fact that their lives had drifted irretrievably apart , and she had prayed that things might stay that way for ever . |
| 4 | She had planned on being ultra-cool , whatever provocation he might throw at her , and yet at the first word here she was letting him get to her all over again ! |
| 5 | When she was first looking for rooms to rent , she had to pretend to be Yoruba rather than Ibo in order to persuade a Nigerian landlord to accept her as a tenant . |
| 6 | Days ago she had decided to be good — she was being quite good — but she was only pretending to be good so far and all this appreciation was as yet undeserved . |
| 7 | But I suppose she had pretended to be ill because she did n't want to be at the funeral . |
| 8 | She had wanted to be strong to the end , give no evidence of what this overthrow was doing to her . |
| 9 | She had wanted to be beautiful like Paula , would have traded everything to be just a little like the sister whose stunning good looks had the power to attract and mesmerise wherever she went . |
| 10 | Tonight she had wanted to be alone with her memories . |
| 11 | But she had ceased to be surprised , or even confused , by the constantly changing facets of Alexander Vass . |
| 12 | She had expected to be one of the others . |
| 13 | She might be proud , but she had learned to be provident ! |
| 14 | She had been giddy in the mornings and tired at night ; her breasts felt different , she had been sleeping badly , dreaming dreams , longing all day for Tristram to come and take her in his arms and love her , when instead she had had to be content with no more than a covert glance from him when he came home from Knollys 's yard in the evenings , or a touch of his ankle under the table at supper time . |
| 15 | She had tried to be better than someone else and ended up proving herself even worse . |
| 16 | She had tried to be hard and grasping , tried to deal with this in a sophisticated , detached manner . |
| 17 | She had meant to be comforting , but even to herself the words sounded depressed . |
| 18 | That was probably all she had left to be proud of — she was still alive . |