Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she had faced up to that , it was an easy decision . |
| 2 | There were other friends too and people she had grown up with . |
| 3 | Londoners were more callous than the Greeks she had grown up with . |
| 4 | Even though her parents had moved to the States , she still had friends here , people she had grown up with . |
| 5 | Tales of Robin Hood were very much to Anna 's romantic taste , and she listened enthralled as Merrill searched her memory for the legends and folklore she had grown up with . |
| 6 | Rosemary loved him , she was certain of that , but Rosemary was in a particular hell of her own , her love for Travis warring with the convictions she had grown up with . |
| 7 | The literary articles were the result of her home study of literature — she had grown up during the establishment of the free library system in Britain , which she used extensively to supplement her elementary education . |
| 8 | She said with a shock that she realised she had grown up among the men on her father 's farm without seeing them as people you could conceivably fancy . |
| 9 | So she had grown up in a cold , almost emotionally empty vacuum . |
| 10 | It was an attitude she had encountered before admittedly — from people who assumed that because she had grown up in hotels , she had been able to enjoy all the comforts afforded to the customers . |
| 11 | She had grown up amongst beautiful clothes , been dressed from childhood in designer fashion , been made to stand still for fittings for her graduation dress and her first ball gown , and hated every moment of it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had winkled out of him that he got the story from Georgie and she had much trouble persuading him it was a joke . |
| 14 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 15 | For , when she had woken up , rather late that morning , her usual brightness had been replaced by a quiet , sinking unhappiness , and instead of getting straight out of bed and opening the curtains to see what kind of weather was there , she had huddled down between the sheets , reluctant to face anything . |
| 16 | And yet when she had peered down at Scathach 's body she had looked through leaves , through summer . |
| 17 | She was thought to haunt the Dane Hills of Leicestershire in England , and to live in a cave she had dug out of the rock with her own hands . |
| 18 | She had moved out of hearing . |
| 19 | Was that why she had moved out of the Wilson family home ? |
| 20 | For the first time since she had moved back into the house , she knew she could n't face an evening with Jacob . |
| 21 | But then , when he had leaned forward to brush her cheek , her neck , she had moved back as if he had transgressed , and all his knowledge of her had been shattered by her refusal . |
| 22 | She had moved down to London and lived in squats . |
| 23 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 24 | Hard to credit that he had once fathered a daughter — and a beautiful girl she had turned out to be — like her granny … |
| 25 | She had thrashed around like a freshly caught trout on a grassy bank . |
| 26 | All of these she had wriggled out of , and as they were leaving the cinema he had had the nerve to say , ‘ You know , I really respect you for saying no , Benny . |
| 27 | Snatching an old raincoat from the hallstand she had plunged out into the rain . |
| 28 | To be honest , it looked as though she had given up on being a woman . |
| 29 | She had given up concerning herself with the agent of the Scarabae . |
| 30 | She could not refuse him , accordingly , and did not ; but more and more it was almost as if she had given in to Mr Poole 's demands ; one man was much like another . |