Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] she had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it . |
| 2 | Rose had noticed this and she had put it down to the awe and respect in which the man she so loved was held , and she was loath to see differently now . |
| 3 | The few rooms were large and high and she had painted the walls in pale yellows and greens . |
| 4 | " Father , there is something I would like so much And she had spoken deliberately with the voice of Amabel . |
| 5 | Another pressing reason for leaving was that Jeanne Hébuterne had just discovered that she was pregnant and she had confessed as much to her mother . |
| 6 | She was unsophisticated and shy and she had turned to him eagerly , warmed by his passion , his odd bursts of kindness , his quirks of humour . |
| 7 | The amniocentesis test had proved everything was normal and she had done her best to push into the background the treacherous thoughts about it which had assailed her on her first visit to the gynaecologist . |
| 8 | She had her faults — she needed to be push-started and she had lost gears the way old people lose teeth — but it was difficult not to love her . |
| 9 | By the time she reached the hut her hair had turned white and she had gone dumb with grieving , so she could tell her husband nothing of what had happened . |
| 10 | She was here at seven-thirty and she had walked all the way . |
| 11 | Most meal-times took an hour or more but she had realized how important it was for him to eat . |
| 12 | However Sharda had a close friend who was West Indian and she had discussed with her the reasons why Asian girls were so frequently attacked and bullied : |
| 13 | She had been bright and free and determined and she had decided she was going to make her own way in the world , just as well as any of her brothers might . |
| 14 | It was the first time she had been left on her own and she had managed quite well except that she had given Mrs Prichard , the colliery manager 's wife , short change by mistake . |
| 15 | The hedgehog itself was 19 stitches wide and she had saved it as a 23-stitch pattern repeat . |
| 16 | By nine she felt , knowing this to be illogical , that the news was stale and she had passed three foolish hours in ignorance of disaster or even , very occasionally , of something wonderful . |
| 17 | True , it had taken her several minutes to decide whether the keys should be bunched or splayed but she had ceased fidgeting with them and settled into an abnormal quietude . |
| 18 | For she had had vivid dreams — dreams in which he was dead and she had gone to see him in the T'ang 's Great Hall , laid out in state , clothed from head to foot in the white cloth of death . |
| 19 | It was only weeks after the speech that I began to read in the press that actually her theme had been positive and she had presented a positive forward view . |