Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the power of her eyes alone she had compelled a glass of water to tip and spill its contents over the horrible Headmistress , and anybody who could do that could do anything . |
| 2 | Then little invisible tadpole things in the pee swam through the bathwater up the woman 's bottom and laid eggs , and six months later she had a baby . |
| 3 | For almost six months now she had known the joy of waking every morning in a brand new feather bed like a fluted , pale pink shell in which no other woman had ever slumbered . |
| 4 | Yes , two months ago she had been just one of the Pinehurst girls , and today she was the owner of a house and faced with the double problem of looking after her sister and providing a means of livelihood for them both . |
| 5 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 6 | That had been one of the biggest worries when she had first fled to France : what was everyone going to say ? |
| 7 | The boldness of her eyes when she had greeted him had spoken of no social fear . |
| 8 | They had known it was not right to separate a man from his wife for several months when she had a young baby and a business , in a manner of speaking , to care for . |
| 9 | She ached with sympathy for him , and if this had been Christmas , or any time in those months when she had felt they were friends , she would have pulled him into her arms and soothed him with soft hands and whispered words . |
| 10 | She scrubbed out the houses of Dutch burghers when she had the strength , or she took in washing . |
| 11 | He had thought that that would be the last he would hear of her , but a few days later she had sent him her first piece , and he had been so impressed by it that he had printed it and asked her to write more for him . |
| 12 | Nine days later she had a laparotomy with a view to performing a portosystemic shunt . |
| 13 | I gave one dose of Syphilinum 200 and 4 weeks later she had fear of cancer , stomach discomfort and a peculiar symptom of food going up to the back of the nose on swallowing . |
| 14 | Three weeks later she had . |
| 15 | Four weeks later she had seen him in the cinema queue with another girl , and had perceived that her day was over ; in between , she had known disorientation and obsession , diagnosed her trouble , and felt exhilarated . |
| 16 | A couple of years later she had her second baby and again breast-fed for a few months after the birth . |
| 17 | In August 1910 she suffered a heart attack , and two years later she had a stroke which left her a paralysed cripple . |
| 18 | The tombstone inscriptions and the parish register entries reveal that Abigail had married a William Scott , who died in 1655 , and that three years later she had taken John Pilmay as her second husband . |
| 19 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 20 | She would miss the two dogs now she had returned them to their home . |
| 21 | Two days ago she had stood in line in the drafting office at the training depot , wondering where she would be sent . |
| 22 | Until a few days ago she had n't even seen a submarine . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Three days ago she had refused her final chance of giving it for love . |
| 25 | She knew it so clearly that three weeks ago she had made an appointment to take her breast lump to a doctor . |
| 26 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |
| 27 | A few weeks ago she had decided that — in future — her career would provide sufficient fulfilment . |
| 28 | Two weeks ago she had finished her internship at St Paul 's Hospital in Vancouver . |
| 29 | Two weeks ago she had never heard of Penry Meredith Vaughan . |
| 30 | Some years ago she had gone to stud , with her colt foal at foot , to be served by a stallion who had been very successful on the race track . |