Example sentences of "[Wh det] she had [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was something vaguely odd about Sally-Anne McAllister and the farrago to which she had treated them . |
| 2 | One night , waiting in her car outside a pub to which she had followed him , she suddenly found herself crying for the first time . |
| 3 | He would look up from his newspaper after supper to find her eyes fixed on him , in a way which brought back to him the passion with which she had kissed him upon the moor . |
| 4 | He arranged bridging-loans and a mortgage to make up the price of the tall house with the basement into which she had decided he should move as a lodger , abandoning his awful little bed-sit in Chepstow Road . |
| 5 | He recalled other ways in which she had led him on ; the snowy mittened fingers laid on his arm during their walks , the occasional side-glance as if to show that he did not displease her , her endurance , to say the least , of his company . |
| 6 | He joined her in the kitchen , and she saw that the descriptions which had reached her through the field telegraph and by which she had recognised him , were accurate . |
| 7 | The handshake with which she had greeted him had been cool and firm and her brief smile was surprisingly attractive . |
| 8 | Her eyes were black as voids , heightened by the black eyeshadow and mascara with which she had augmented them . |
| 9 | In the early days she had had lots of quiet opinions , he remembered , which she had offered him , shyly slyly , couched as a kind of invitation or bait . |
| 10 | No one is ever fully prepared for bereavement , and even if her husband 's terminal illness was one from which she had known he could not hope to recover , his death will still have come as a shock to her which may create a feeling of numbness and unreality : . |
| 11 | In the alleyway in which she had found him he had been protected from the evening surge of the wind , but as they began to walk towards the west it seemed to attack him . |
| 12 | Since then , since the whole-hearted and selfless manner in which she had helped him , and had comforted him after Effie 's death — he remembered her saying gently to him when he had railed against Fate and his own incompetence , ‘ Do n't , Dr Neil , do n't . |
| 13 | He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara . |
| 14 | But as for what she had exchanged it for — that still seemed more like fantasy than waking reality . |
| 15 | When she realised what she had said she blushed . |
| 16 | In fact they never discussed what she had given him ; Boy sensed that this was a private matter , something to think about but not talk about . |
| 17 | If she returned to the Hall and told her father what she had endured she would be forbidden to return — that was what must happen . |
| 18 | Mortified at what she had done she leapt out of her seat and collided with a waiter , sending the plate of egg fried rice he was carrying flying through the air . |
| 19 | He was well read and intelligent , she knew , he was respected by his men , and from what she had gathered he was a natural leader who always dealt firmly but fairly with the employers to get the best deal he could . |
| 20 | Guido had nothing to do with what she had to tell him . |
| 21 | ‘ You said your friend sounded very excited about what she had to tell you , ’ Harris continued between mouthfuls of bitter . |
| 22 | ‘ I did not ask her what she had taken it for . |
| 23 | She was fed up , she was hungry , and now she would have to confront a horde of troublesome workmen lounging about the house , banging nails , screwing screws and making ribald comments when what she had thought she was escaping to was a slice of peace and solitude . |
| 24 | What she had expected him to say , Folly was n't quite sure . |
| 25 | Her mother would have been happier if she had seen her walking or going off swimming , but after all , she was resting and that 's what she had brought her here for , and perhaps she was turning things over in her mind . |
| 26 | He was watching Charles closely , as if afraid that he would not be believed , when he came to describe the meeting with Maureen O'Duffy and what she had told them during the drive down the mountain . |
| 27 | She complained bitterly about her husband being so confused and his always forgetting what she had told him without having any insight into her own ability to confuse him and other people . |
| 28 | All he had done was what she had told him to do and when he phoned from the motorway to tell her he 'd done it she 'd gone mad ! |
| 29 | But that did not prevent him seeing the possible significance of what she had told him . |
| 30 | There was nothing more she could say or do to prove that what she had told him was the truth . |