Example sentences of "she [adv] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 2 | It was as she was approaching the last crest before the house came into sight that she suddenly had to stamp on the brakes as a Land Rover came pitching round the hillside . |
| 3 | She merely had to change the venue slightly . |
| 4 | Then she had to imagine switching on the light in that cupboard under the stairs and taking a couple of steps forward so that she was just inside — but with the door open to the hall and with the knowledge that she only had to take a single large step back to be out there again . |
| 5 | To her amazement he took this like a lamb , and then had the effrontery to say that it had been a pleasure working with a businesswoman like her , and if there was anything else he could help her with , she only had to ask ! |
| 6 | She only had to wait till tonight , and she would get her answers . |
| 7 | Her skin seemed to glow , and she discovered she only had to smile at the male members of the staff and they were immediately more friendly . |
| 8 | Much of what she had been telling had been brought out raggedly at first , there had been hesitations , intervals , while she was trying to see , groping for a piece in the jig-saw ; and then it all seemed to come to her , she only had to keep speaking . |
| 9 | She only had to have the usual amount of arms and legs and to be able to see where she was going . |
| 10 | She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … . |
| 11 | She only had to shake a hand to increase the revenue and bring more publicity to the organization than any amount of money could buy . |
| 12 | When he started school , she only had to look after him before school started and after it finished , so she took on a part-time job as a lunch-time playground supervisor at the same school . |
| 13 | Oh , sometimes it was irritating , even downright infuriating to look round and see him just a couple of paces away , but she only had to look into those dark eyes to feel that treacherous quiver of desire deep in the pit of her stomach . |
| 14 | After a little more than a year , she alone had transformed it into a place where the children could play in safety , a stretch of patchy grass with a few well-cared-for roses round its border , and an immensely high wall skirting the garden from one end to the other . |
| 15 | When she finally had to put down my old cat Mrs , she said afterwards , ‘ Would you like to stay and be alone with her for a while ? |
| 16 | Now she finally had to admit that it had all been a total failure . |
| 17 | She somehow had to fumble for words to keep up her own façade of blithe sophistication . |
| 18 | The teacher thus : added to the information she already had became aware of a different information source learned how to use that source used the source to present information in a different way and the class : also became aware of the information source responded actively to the on-screen presentation of statistical material could all use the material at the same time manipulated the material easily , moving to and from different parts of the database as they thought appropriate to support their arguments The viewdata presentation therefore : allowed ease of display and manipulation of information in a way in which a chalkboard , flip chart or handout could not and became a kind of electronic chalkboard provided a catalyst for discussion of subject matter related easily the subject matter to the students ' own geographical and social environment encouraged the development of oral discussion based on evidence inferred from information rather than expressed , but unsupported , opinion |
| 19 | But the information she already had marked her out as a target . |
| 20 | She just had to turn out , and there was nothing coming down , foot down , opened up , got I was at the top of the hill and she was nowhere in sight . |
| 21 | as if there was something locked deep inside her that she just had to let out . |
| 22 | But on looking into Ven 's no-nonsense dark eyes , she just had to answer his question truthfully . |
| 23 | ‘ Who was he ? ’ she just had to stop and ask . |
| 24 | The doctor explained to her how hard it sometimes was for the sperm to coincide with the eggs ; she just had to continue to keep the Shah interested . |
| 25 | She knew what she wanted to learn and she knew where it was ; she just had to shovel it all into her head . |
| 26 | And , with that out of the way , unless Ven Gajdusek wanted more — and she would n't put that past him — she just had to ask , ‘ Milada Pankracova 's leaving your employ wo n't affect anything , will it ? ’ |
| 27 | So , ‘ None at all , ’ she replied — though , trying to make her tone barely interested , she just had to ask , ‘ How long is Mr Gajdusek likely to be away ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Why ? ’ she just had to ask , ‘ when ? ’ and , most oddly , felt a tension in the air that , for once , did n't emanate from her . |
| 29 | ‘ How ? ’ she just had to ask for clarification . |
| 30 | ‘ B-but why ? ’ she just had to ask . |