Example sentences of "[coord] she had [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she had taken trouble over the arrangement of the facts and in getting in as much relevant information as possible . |
| 2 | She had lazed around the pool to her heart 's content — and she had played tennis with Carlos three times . |
| 3 | They had accepted it for what it was , and never bothered to probe deeper , and she had followed suit . |
| 4 | The water swirled cold round her feet , and she had lost sight of Adam . |
| 5 | Her greatest frustration was being unable to run her family home , and she had lost confidence in her ability ever to do that again . |
| 6 | And she had felt primitive . |
| 7 | Jarvis Stringer 's grandparents ' qualifications for keeping a school were that he had been up at Oxford where he had read Greats and she had left Goldsmith 's College halfway through her teacher training . |
| 8 | She had been too nervous to eat the evening before and she had skipped breakfast this morning . |
| 9 | And she had set fire to one of them . |
| 10 | She had often heard people say how Martha Gristy had been the beauty of Polruan , and she had taken pride in the fact that she was inheriting those looks . |
| 11 | It had been claimed that Mrs McWilliams had had an allergic reaction to the drugs and she had alleged negligence by the anaesthetist . |
| 12 | I 've been doing research that 's been inspired by the work of Marie Hoader , who 's Emeritus Professor at the university , a social psychologist , and she had researched unemployment back in the nineteen thirties ; she studied an Austrian village called Mariental , where practically everybody was unemployed , and late in the nineteen seventies as our group began raising questions about the future of work , she engaged in a review of the research between the thirties and the seventies to see if things had changed . |
| 13 | She had wanted him safe and sheltered , but she had wanted vengeance , too . |
| 14 | When she first came to the sand , a long time ago , she had had a pocketful of pills and squeezers , but she had lost interest in them . |
| 15 | Turakina had known from the first how he would react , but she had pretended resistance for a day and a night before giving her consent . |
| 16 | He had not liked his ride from Newmarket in the horse-box but she had watched Bunny whisper and wheedle him into tranquillity . |