Example sentences of "[adv] she had [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then suddenly she had no make-up , she was fatter , drooping about . |
| 2 | Suddenly she had a need to speak his name . |
| 3 | She would have opted to work , only she had no idea what Michele had done with the key to the studio door . |
| 4 | If only she had a comb and some make-up . |
| 5 | And because she wanted to know more , she wanted to find out all there was to find out about this dark , ancient stronghold that her ancestors had known , at times she stole out from her bedchamber after nightfall and stood listening to the night rustlings and the soft settling of the old , old timbers ( and the footsteps ? did n't she still hear the footsteps every night ? ) and thought that if only she knew the right words , or if only she had the power , she could summon the enchantments and lay bare the secrets and understand this place . |
| 6 | Apparently she had the equivalent of half a tablet . |
| 7 | So she had no idea , when her antics were effective , how she was using herself up in her efforts to ward off her disappearance from the world , in her girlish desire to please . |
| 8 | So she had no compunction , I think , in allowing your father to be lured into danger , so that the demoiselle would leave the City to follow him . |
| 9 | Come into work I think it 's assumed she 'd left but she did n't leave , she di she had enough of it so she had a couple of days off come in this morning and er I said to Steven , no idea what the situation was . |
| 10 | so she had a bit of a benny it was |
| 11 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 12 | So she had a list of about five things she wanted sorted out and she said so far we were the cheapest . |
| 13 | Physically she had a lot more to offer than Kate , but for some unknown reason he really fancied the policewoman . |
| 14 | Tonight she had no problem with Ray . |
| 15 | Nevertheless she had a go . |
| 16 | Normally she had the pool to herself at this hour . |
| 17 | More and more lately she had the feeling that George was different somehow . |
| 18 | Above all , Celia must never know the whole story of how and why her mother died , nor that , presumably , somewhere she had a father whom , please God , she would never know . |
| 19 | To hell with Berry and Jonah , and Captain Lawless R.N. , for now and always she had a love of her own . |
| 20 | For once she had no need to count up and then across in order to identify her own balcony . |
| 21 | The fact that he obviously thought she was a good nurse pleased her and gave her confidence , while the fact that Belinda had not betrayed his secret and gossiped about his wife and her illness earned his gratitude and respect , so that now they were allies and she knew she would be able to go to him if ever she had a problem at the hospital . |
| 22 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 23 | ‘ For the first time ever she had the figure she always wanted and wanted to share it with her fans , ’ said a friend . |
| 24 | A PENSIONER who kept 84 dogs in her house told a court yesterday she had no reason to live if her ‘ bairns ’ were taken away . |
| 25 | And you know yesterday she had the nerve to ask me if she could sit at the end of our table . |
| 26 | Usually she had a saucepan of water simmering on the electric stove , with two plates warming on top of it , waiting to receive the meal . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In August 1910 she suffered a heart attack , and two years later she had a stroke which left her a paralysed cripple . |
| 29 | Nine days later she had a laparotomy with a view to performing a portosystemic shunt . |
| 30 | A moment later she had the opportunity for a closer look , as the trio came trooping into the sitting-room , Jake in front , the two females right behind . |