Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [conj] she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bought as a second pony after she had grown out of Buttons , he had proved himself such a marvellous jumper and such a resolute galloper , Artemis could n't possibly imagine life without him . |
| 2 | She had come to the Centre in the depths of despair , weeping , gnashing her teeth and venting her hatred upon the doctors who had told her , at the eleventh hour that she had cancer and nothing could be done . |
| 3 | She had n't seen Jenny since she had moved to Moorlake that first week-end but she had known that it would not be long before Jenny returned . |
| 4 | In the ensuing proceedings the local authority were the applicants , W. 's aunt was first respondent since she had parental responsibilities concurrently with those of the local authority and W. was the second respondent by the Official Solicitor as her guardian ad litem . |
| 5 | Diana 's first public engagement as Princess of Wales was , appropriately , a tour of the principality , and it was obvious from the very first day that she had an extraordinary talent . |
| 6 | I was the first visitor that she had had since she was transferred from ‘ Grisly ’ Risley Remand Centre in Cheshire , where she sat out the murder and fraud trials . |
| 7 | James Hunt , QC , for the defence , put it to nurse Geeson that Allitt had told her after Liam suffered his first attack but she had forgotten . |
| 8 | I thought the part that , you know , she forgot it er well I know she did n't forget it , she just did it on purpose , but three days after my birthday it 's her wee brother 's first birthday and she had , she had the nerve to ring me up and invite me to her brother 's first birthday party accept and go up there with a present and a card and all and she could n't even have rang me up to say happy birthday So I have n't |
| 9 | Whatever , Ben had seemed disturbed first thing when she had gone to wake him . |
| 10 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 11 | A light breeze made play with her skirts and , for the first time since she had arrived at Yelton , she wished she could let down her hair and feel the wind run its fingers through it . |
| 12 | For the first time since she had moved back into the house , she knew she could n't face an evening with Jacob . |
| 13 | In fact she lay in the warm , dark grey shadows of her room quite at peace for the first time since she had come to Italy . |
| 14 | Jelka looked about her , letting herself relax for the first time since she had heard of the attack on the Project , drinking in the harmony of the garden . |
| 15 | She thought she might even be able to get a good night 's sleep for the first time since she had arrived at the house . |
| 16 | A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England . |
| 17 | ‘ Daddy , darling , ’ Alyssia said , smiling genuinely for the first time since she had stepped foot back on to English soil and kissing him on the tip of his nose , ‘ in your own cantankerous way , you 've put your finger right on the button . ’ |
| 18 | Next morning , for the first time since she had started at G.W. , she arrived late , almost too terrified to step across the threshold . |
| 19 | He looked at McAllister for the first time since she had begun to help him , and saw her strained white face , the eyes enormous in it . |
| 20 | It was the direction of her life she was questioning , for the first time since she had settled on a career . |
| 21 | He looked as if he was going to protest , but his eyes caught her face , and for the first time since she had known him Nelson was one hundred per cent a grown-up . |
| 22 | It was not , of course , the first time that she had exercised the powers of Regent , but on this particular occasion she knew that she would have to deal with a new constitutional structure in which it was envisaged that she would merely be informed by the Ministers and would take no decisions on her own . |
| 23 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 24 | She had only passed her driving test after her marriage and this was the first time that she had driven unaccompanied by night . |
| 25 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 26 | It was the first time that she had forgotten the place of the Arab 's wife . |
| 27 | It was the first time that she had ever felt sorry for anyone . |
| 28 | It was the first time that she had seen Johnny dressed in full uniform . |
| 29 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 30 | It was n't the first time Luke had contacted her since their sight seeing expedition — the flowers that by now she was coming to expect had arrived promptly next day , and with them a handwritten note — but it was the first time that she had heard his voice . |