Example sentences of "[pron] she had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For someone she had met only once he had had a remarkable impact on her . |
| 2 | Almost desperately she sought solace in her own private ‘ pictures ’ , the programme she never tired of , which she had projected on to her drowsy mind countless times as she lay in bed before dropping off to sleep , or half-awake on Sunday mornings . |
| 3 | Then she brought him her account book , which she had kept faithfully from the first day of opening her house , and showed him the state of things . |
| 4 | Mrs Baines , 54 , who represented the Darlington Gala Club , won the cup and £100 after she tossed her pancake 62 times in the competition in which she had dressed up as Minnie Mouse . |
| 5 | Liz attempted her first sketch of her mother , her first outline for the outside world of the domestic ghost with which she had lived so long : Alix spoke of her relief at escaping from the small boarding school world in which her parents and her contemporaries all knew one another far too well : Esther conjured up visions of both deprivation and splendour in her own past . |
| 6 | When she died ( about 1925 ) , she left instructions in her Will for her body to be buried in this green paradise about which she had heard so much , and yet which she had never visited except in her dreams . |
| 7 | She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . " |
| 8 | The thick grey hair had been tinted a reddish brown , a process to which she had succumbed only for the last two years , having previously been free in expressing her opinion of those stupid women who aimed to camouflage their age by dyeing their hair . |
| 9 | Her eyes leapt from Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob to Verse 25 of the Gospel According to St Matthew , to which she had turned simply because it began the New Testament and she had been unable to make anything of the Old . |
| 10 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 11 | Ruth 's hopes , which she had built so high , collapsed like a house of cards . |
| 12 | He flipped open the book whose pages were filled with her beautiful , careful script , which he had seen many times on the shopping lists which she had made up under Matey 's instructions . |
| 13 | Only that she must have been holding out on him all these years , that she did have memories which she had covered up or , to give her the benefit of the doubt , conveniently forgotten about . |
| 14 | Pamela Churchill had to leave their house which she had to lease out to others to get income from the rent . |
| 15 | They contained news of Rose , details of life in wartime Oswaldston , stories from her daily work in teaching , which she had gone back to . |
| 16 | She had used only the top room of the mill which she had furnished simply with a small writing table and chair facing the North Sea , a telephone and her binoculars . |
| 17 | And when that smile , that patronizing masculine smile which she had endured so often , was beamed at her , she felt her confidence drain away and retreat with a scrabbling of small stones like a departing wave . |
| 18 | She had thought for a moment that he was going to have a heart attack from shock , but , recovering himself , he had said , ‘ Well , now you know , what are you going to do about it ? ’ to which she had answered simply , ‘ Divorce , ’ and walked out . |
| 19 | She was thinking about a telephone call which she had answered just as she was about to leave the house . |
| 20 | Mrs Pygling sent her in to spy on Jane and she prowled about with a cordless telephone , through which she had to talk very loud , so that her cracked voice and cackling laugh could be heard in every corner of the estate . |
| 21 | ‘ Make way for the Lord Mayor , ’ she said one day on the front steps , as she moved her bucket aside , and he , bending over her , said , ‘ Many a true word spoken in jest , Rosie , ’ to which she had reacted quickly , saying , ‘ Yes , Mr Jones ; but those who sit on horsehair chairs generally get their bums scratched , ’ bringing from him the reaction of a push on the side of her head and their laughing together . |
| 22 | Later the legends and stories with which she had grown up would be added to them — stories of astonishing miracles and heroic adventures , by which she and her father , Solomon Klinitsky-Klein — whose influence on Leonard should not be overlooked — fired his imagination and stimulated his ideas . |
| 23 | For Cecilia , however — a young black girl placed in care at 13 because her mother could n't cope — the fact that she could express anger and upset with her sister , whom she dearly loved , resulted in social workers suggesting a move , ‘ for her own good ’ , to a smaller family-style establishment in the country , miles from the inner city community in which she had grown up . |
| 24 | Within a week she was living with a black foster parent , in the area in which she had grown up , and was able to resume contact with her sister . |
| 25 | She carried the ‘ things ’ down and put them in the boudoir , returning for the clothes which she had kicked aside which were still strewn upon the stairs . |
| 26 | The reluctant Vicomtesse now propped the broken mirror on a shelf and poked fingers at her hair which she had piled loosely before decorating with an ostrich feather . |
| 27 | He stopped and looked into her face with those dark penetrating eyes which she had noticed so vividly on the night of the fire . |
| 28 | It contained a bible , a penknife with a horn handle , a clay pipe , and the verse which she had written out for him two Christmases ago : ‘ For hearts of truest mettle , Absence doth join and time doth settle . ’ |
| 29 | Today was the start of her contract , which she had signed back home with the agent of the Monte Samana Company who owned this entire complex . |
| 30 | She turned and surveyed the room that was always hers when she visited Thomas , its architectural simplicity , the reassuring certainty of the heavy polished wood , the playful cubes and rectangles of the little Feininger villages which she had spent so much time dreaming over in the past . |