Example sentences of "[pers pn] [subord] she had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I I mean I because she had asked me originally to keep it but I keep mine all separate until you asked me for it . |
| 2 | At first I though she had pissed herself , then I saw flowers tumble out of the sky and hit the water ahead of me like some strange rain . |
| 3 | She said it had prompted more real conversation between them than she had achieved in all their previous encounters . |
| 4 | It would n't have surprised me if she had walked across and jumped out of the window . |
| 5 | My mother did n't need them and was far too pretty to wear them if she had needed them . |
| 6 | Although she had expressed doubts about Ursula 's interpretation of the police 's conduct , it had rung truer to her than she had cared to admit . |
| 7 | With Gary she enjoyed a relationship she had never experienced with anyone else — the easy-going friendship of a male who made no demands whatever on her — and it meant more to her than she had realised . |
| 8 | He had tutted and twitched and tweaked , then proceeded to do more for her than she had thought possible . |
| 9 | As for Meredith , she forgot about him once she had ventured at last into the supermarket . |
| 10 | She lay on her back , her usually sallow face rosy , her mouth open and emitting regular snores which , though reasonably genteel , would have horrified her if she had heard them . |
| 11 | I asked her if she had raised the question with him and she said no . |
| 12 | ‘ I asked her if she had seen the news and she said ; ‘ Yes , I did . |
| 13 | As a child it had been embarrassing and as both teachers and playmates had looked askance at the familiarity she 'd reverted to the ubiquitous ‘ Mum ’ in their presence , but woe betide her if she had lapsed into this form of address in Margaret 's presence ! |
| 14 | ‘ On one occasion I woke up from an operation in hospital and asked her if she had brought my Echo . ’ |
| 15 | The content of what he said might have chilled her if she had harboured any desire to stay longer — which , she told herself fiercely , she most definitely did not . |
| 16 | Julius stood and watched her go , and wondered what else she would have said to him if she had known the complete truth ; that he had known from the very start exactly who had sent that poison pen letter to her . |
| 17 | Her mother , Frances , stayed with him until she had produced the son he so desperately wanted , but when Diana was just six years old her mother left home . |
| 18 | And yet , she wanted him like she had wanted no other . |
| 19 | She had already met this young man , when he had last come to pay his rent , and found him startlingly different from the Welsh boys of her acquaintance — a big , silent boy with disillusioned , almond-shaped eyes sunk above high cheek bones , a boy who had stared unblinkingly at her until she had begun to blush with embarrassment , so that she had felt stripped , not only physically but mentally as well . |
| 20 | She had n't realised how much it angered her until she had begun , and by the time she came to a halt , her voice had acquired all the sting of a whiplash . |
| 21 | On one or two occasions the figures had failed to balance ; any discrepancy deeply upset her and Peter had learned to avoid her until she had resolved it . |
| 22 | The first was a Carol Pearson , of Muswell Hill , interesting to him because she had worked as a hairdresser 's improver at a shop in Eastcheap . |
| 23 | Chasing after Julius in that oh , so subtle and ladylike way , looking down that elegant nose of hers at Jessamy because she did n't wear designer clothes or lead a sophisticated social life , silently sneering at her because she had lost Julius just as she , Eleanor , had always predicted she would . |
| 24 | He had looked after her since she had come here . |
| 25 | She had recorded in her journal everything which had happened to her since she had arrived in London and she wanted no prying eyes to read what she had written . |
| 26 | He had not seen her since she had attacked him to stop him hitting Oliver . |
| 27 | Margaret Thatcher once pleaded that it would be the ‘ cruellest thing ’ for her colleagues to unseat her after she had obtained for them more than a decade in power . |
| 28 | She had half expected him to contact her after she had turned away the team of cleaners he 'd sent to her house to clear up the mess , but she had heard nothing . |
| 29 | The 27-year-old mother 's ordeal began when the kidnapper jumped out at her after she had parked her car at the top of a multi-storey at a shopping centre in Eastleigh , Hants . |
| 30 | This looked like a very male occasion but she was greeted with smiles and urged indoors where Felipe found a seat for her after she had chosen her snack from the plates on the counter . |