Example sentences of "had [verb] her in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away . |
| 2 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 3 | Tess realized that the farmer was the same Trantridge man who had recognized her in the market town , and had been knocked down by Angel . |
| 4 | And he had stopped her in the lobby once to enquire , ‘ How are things going ? |
| 5 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
| 6 | She recalled the swift bruising kiss he had given her in the restaurant . |
| 7 | Simon , however , would n't hear of it , and had joined her in the kitchen to help with the dishes . |
| 8 | She did n't realise that Guy Sterne had joined her in the sitting-room until he spoke from behind her chair . |
| 9 | He had installed her in a cottage on East Street and in the last few days before the wedding she had worked all hours to spicken the place up and turn it into a home for him . |
| 10 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 11 | He had rung her in the afternoon and suggested they met . |
| 12 | Finally , he had to hide her in a cellar . |
| 13 | It was long after she had gone to sleep and he had prodded her in the ribs to stop her snoring and was , himself , lying awake , staring into the darkness , thinking about Donald that it occurred to Henry that this was the longest conversation he had had with Elinor for about a year and that , after a bad start , she had , once or twice , come dangerously near to amiability . |
| 14 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 15 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 16 | Her limbs were graceful , her whole body proportioned like that of a young goddess ; as for her breasts , an infatuated young man who had seen her in a small part at Robert 's Shield Theatre wrote her a letter quoting the Song of Solomon at length : Asshe threatened to horsewhip him . |
| 17 | Physically , she was looking better than Harriet had seen her in a long while . |
| 18 | A little better ; he had seen her in a few more moods , some higher , some lower . |
| 19 | It was possible that he , too , had not troubled himself with thoughts of her real life until he had seen her in the garden with Ben . |
| 20 | Rachaela thought of the day she had seen her in the snow , the day Emma had bowed out from their lives with urgent smiles . |
| 21 | She felt as if a hard , heavy fist had thumped her in the stomach . |
| 22 | He had wrapped her in a blanket off her bed and made her more coffee . |
| 23 | Ali Marwash was not a rich man , but he had loved his daughter and had wrapped her in a Kashmir shawl before interring her . |
| 24 | Breeze was on her way to Miss Martindale 's now , for the old lady had intercepted her in the lane the day before , to ask her if she would come and do two hours ' digging at tenpence an hour . |
| 25 | Daryl remembered something your mother had told her in a letter a week or two before , she said that she 'd met Sally Hopes mother and had liked her and she said to that she 'd seen Mrs Hopes baby . |
| 26 | In fact , he had told her in no uncertain terms to go forth and multiply . |
| 27 | Her father had told her in no uncertain terms that she 'd lost her mind . |
| 28 | Certainly , Montaine 's death had affected her in a dramatic and all-embracing way . |
| 29 | She was not sure if she had kicked her in the throat . |
| 30 | Bitterly , she realised that her night at The Angel with Freddie Nash had shackled her in a way which , even if she had stopped to think about the possible consequences at the time , she could scarcely have envisaged . |