Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere inside her was a weak hope that she had not spoken . |
| 2 | It was a cruel trick that she had been a dream , that he could not join her yet . |
| 3 | The picture with regard to briefing and preparation was encouraging with only one assistant reporting that she had not been briefed . |
| 4 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 5 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 6 | She had not stopped to think that she might be inserting herself into a social scene that she had walked away from when she had left home . |
| 7 | She even climbed to the old attic that she had never even seen before ; perhaps here there would be some painting he had done long ago . |
| 8 | So why did she have this totally irrational feeling that she had surprised him ? |
| 9 | Where was that hard-earned gloss of calm efficiency that she had cultivated over the years ? |
| 10 | Strong-willed and ambitious for her children , she did not retain the affection of her youngest child , Samuel , despite her early devotion to him , and left him in adult life with an obscure and painful sense that she had treated him cruelly . |
| 11 | She told another foreign reporter that she had spent most of her time at the General Staff learning English . |
| 12 | The Hochhauser Season had come along just at the right time , a time when she needed a little excitement , a little glamour , a little of the old camaraderie that she had known with her friends in Vienna . |
| 13 | She apparently told her , contrary to the impression given in the former interview covered by Document B , that she never condoned her daughter 's going away — which she referred to rather dramatically as a ‘ kidnap ’ — that she did everything she could to bring the matter to the authorities at the time , but ‘ was prevented ’ , that she had certainly never agreed to her daughter living with her brother , that her daughter 's health had suffered alarmingly , and that she never told any social worker that she had agreed . |
| 14 | But when she announced in a maddeningly off-hand way that she had been deputed to look after him while Clarissa was away , she got another very swift question indeed . |
| 15 | She finished scribbling her details on the back of the old envelope that she had extricated from her bag . |
| 16 | Much to the prince 's disgust the captain of the Du Teillay refused to join in the action for fear of endangering his passenger 's life , but the Elisabeth suffered 57 killed and 176 wounded and such serious damage that she had to be sent back to Brest , taking with her her precious cargo of arms and French volunteers . |
| 17 | ‘ Witch , ’ he told her , his face relaxed , boyish , showing the easy charm that she had not known he possessed while they had been so busy provoking each other . |
| 18 | Edging away from him , she felt her legs collide with the low shelving , and realised with a jolting shock that she had backed herself into a corner . |
| 19 | She shook her head , strangely uneasy , then the vague feeling that she had let something important slip through her fingers faded away when fitzAlan turned back to her . |
| 20 | He had shown her round the parish with such an enthusiasm for its social and ethnic diversity that she had warmed to him and , when offered the curacy , accepted . |
| 21 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 22 | Jo loathed her blobby nose , her receding chin , her long body , her short legs , her droopy ass , her fat thighs , her white skin that absolutely refused to tan and her brown hair which frizzed and which her mother would n't even let her frost ; she accepted that she would never look like Faye Dunaway , never be a Prom Queen and that most of her body was a total disaster area , but she knew with absolute certainty that she had great tits . |
| 23 | as if to lure her husband into a false sense of security , she pretended in the following year that she had gone to America and had hired a secretary , called Daisy Miller , to answer her correspondence in her absence : but she herself was Daisy Miller . |
| 24 | He strode away without giving her a chance to speak , leaving her with the distinct impression that she had just been steamrollered . |
| 25 | Why did she get the distinct impression that she had just been steamrollered ? |
| 26 | But in the months following the diagnosis , Mrs Henry found that it was not only a life-threatening disease that she had to contend with . |
| 27 | My mum came in at about 07.15 , holding out my black suit and a white shirt that she had just ironed . |
| 28 | She told the National Enquirer that she had met the prince just months before the Duchess of York was snapped in intimate poses in the South of France with American financial adviser John Bryan , 37 . |
| 29 | My mother would answer inaudibly , but it would be evident from my father 's all-too-audible answering tirade that she had been gently remonstrating . |
| 30 | And these visits managed to reduce her to exactly the same stage of trembling , silent , frustrated anxiety that she had endured throughout her childhood ; she felt , each time , that she had gone back , right back to the start , and that every step forward must be painfully retraced . |