Example sentences of "[prep] she [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he reigned he had , by Doña Sancha his wife the Infanta Doña Urraca , his eldest daughter , who was a right excellent lady , and after her he had the Infante Don Sancho , his eldest son and heir ; and then the Infanta Doña Elvira , whom after the death of the King her father , her brother King Don Alfonso married to the Count Don Garcia de Cabra . |
| 2 | In front of her she had a large electric coil , suitably insulated , and a button . |
| 3 | He tried to dilute Judi 's images of her sister with objectivity , with his own observations , with Cam 's tightly-guarded feelings , with the pathetic and stupid judgements of Clive , Amelia and a few of Amelia 's guests , and with the slight tastes of her he had sampled at the entrance to the maze . |
| 4 | It had seemed so important to make a good impression , to show him that she had risen above the way of life in the alleys , but it was a selfish , uncaring side of her he had seen . |
| 5 | For the loss of her he had compensated as best he could , first with the imaginary friend he called Rip , then with the moor itself , but in May he thought of her still and with a curious longing . |
| 6 | Her slim , nude body , warm in the candlelight , warm by the fire , turning and turning , now this way , now that , against him … the curve of her back … the firmness of her hips … her soft breasts … the grace of her neck and the beauty of her , and of her face , and the dark , desperate eyes , begging now , and entranced — these were the images of her he had only half captured in his years of days away from this house . |
| 7 | It was the other young mothers in the beds each side of her who had laughed at it . |
| 8 | Like her they were teenagers , like her they had enjoyed a smash hit first single , like her they had happened to have come from somewhere other than Britain . |
| 9 | Like her they were teenagers , like her they had enjoyed a smash hit first single , like her they had happened to have come from somewhere other than Britain . |
| 10 | Like Mrs Secretan , Elizabeth had married off a daughter , like her she had lived in fear ( then unfounded ) of cancer , and had felt uncomfortably sure that she had offended someone ; like Elinor Pringle she had filled up time in odd places , during short periods of being alone ; like Meg , she knew the fascination of the Thames estuary ; with Patrick Barlow she shared the accidie of the writer , and a love for the same sort of painting . |
| 11 | As the door clicked to behind her she had an image of the bunch of flowers on the counter , their stained reflection gleaming in the glass . |
| 12 | with her she had to learn |
| 13 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 14 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 15 | In the earlier years of living with her he had sometimes left her a note speared on the kitchen tap before he went out for his walk — stirred and perhaps even drawn by the sight of her plain , flushed face in bed , which had begun to acquire in sleep a look of distress and disappointment . |
| 16 | And yet , sitting on Mandy 's outrageously colourful couch the night of their reunion , she had realised there was a dream within her she had never acknowledged . |
| 17 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
| 18 | From her they had learned that Jerome Fanshawe had a bungalow at Eastover between Eastbourne and Seaford and that he and his wife and daughter had driven down there for a week 's holiday on May 17th . |
| 19 | Her widowhood sat lightly on her shoulders , and from what Peggy gathered from her she had a favourite pub . |
| 20 | A very old friend of the family wrote to me when each of my parents died , and from her I had learnt that Sarah had decided to have no more children after Emma , and that Emma had gone to medical school so she is presumably now a doctor somewhere . |
| 21 | As Richard took the ribbon from her he had said , ‘ I 'll borrow it for luck . ’ |
| 22 | In taking her virginity he had taken away her power to convince any man of her innocence , even the man before her who had said that he loved her . |
| 23 | ‘ I told him that he is violent , has mistreated her very badly , have been trigger happy and whatever kindness he might have done for her he had cancelled by beatings and threats he had made on her life . |
| 24 | For her it had been from the tender age of five , when her own brother and male ‘ friends ’ of a single-parent family abused her . |
| 25 | For her it had worked well in some ways but not in others , which had mainly to do with the relationship between her and her foster mother after her son Sean was born . |
| 26 | For her it had been a night of mystery and of magic , and he had reduced it to ‘ unacceptable behaviour ’ . |
| 27 | Yet as she sank to the floor and died they fell back , they shrank back and made the space for her she had needed for life . |
| 28 | There had to be something left on the sideboard for her she had earned it . |
| 29 | At last finding someone to move so their love did n't have to be separated they started to do things which the middle-aged woman in the tweed suit would not have approved of , luckily for her she had dismounted earlier . |
| 30 | Whether this was , as the newsroom quipped , because it had dawned on her she had nothing to do there or whether it was , as the police believed , because she had lost her argument with Wickham , nobody could be certain . |