Example sentences of "and she had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had refused — even though it would have offered her an easy way out , and then circumstances had intervened and she had ended in the brothels in the notorious Monto . |
| 2 | Then they took her pay packet away ; they would give her only £5 and she had to go to her sisters and borrow money for her clothes and things . |
| 3 | We had to quickly change it back , but I only got one hook done up and she had to go holding one hand behind her back for the whole scene . |
| 4 | and she had to go home before it finished . |
| 5 | And she had to go out , but no Bernard now you forgot this bit here , she was , er house , the decorators were painting her house at three o'clock in the morning ! |
| 6 | And er , Margot was behind the and they were painting her house and somebody fell and she had to go and give them artificial respiration or something did n't she ? |
| 7 | She had to go and she had to go and live with them he could n't get married without . |
| 8 | He was staring into the fire rather grimly and she had to take her courage firmly in hand . |
| 9 | That first night , after the shock had begun to abate , the vision of Benedict 's snarling features , the sound of molten rage in his voice , had come back to her again and again as she lay in her narrow cot bed , and she had wept . |
| 10 | They 'd shared a bed in Cumberland and she had comforted Gordon because nothing was quite right . |
| 11 | His generosity had got her out of gaol , and she had misled him about her sailing ability . |
| 12 | And she had answered , ‘ Oh , thank God . |
| 13 | And she had answered , ‘ The sooner the better . |
| 14 | For laughing and singing at a funeral her husband gave her a reproving tap , and she had to return to her home in the lake . |
| 15 | Let's go and see it , he had said , and she had recoiled at first . |
| 16 | Sally had chided when the taxi had dropped Harriet off and she had bundled unceremoniously into the house . |
| 17 | It was only weeks after the speech that I began to read in the press that actually her theme had been positive and she had presented a positive forward view . |
| 18 | And she had sounded fairly unequivocal about what she wanted from him , too . |
| 19 | Suddenly a wave of total panic swept across her like nausea and she had to resist the urge to dash from the car and hide herself among the trees . |
| 20 | Her social life seemed to be quite full , and she had gone out with a young man on a couple of occasions . |
| 21 | Her marriage had broken up , and she had gone to live with a man who was starting an art gallery in the Lake District . |
| 22 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 23 | By the time she reached the hut her hair had turned white and she had gone dumb with grieving , so she could tell her husband nothing of what had happened . |
| 24 | For she had had vivid dreams — dreams in which he was dead and she had gone to see him in the T'ang 's Great Hall , laid out in state , clothed from head to foot in the white cloth of death . |
| 25 | Dad was different ; he had not been the same since that night Alice was out and she had gone downstairs and watched him working on his book . |
| 26 | The husband of the cleaning woman had been a soldier , and she had said that he had had no choice but to obey his orders to shoot Jews . |
| 27 | ‘ Penny for them , ’ said Adam , when they were halfway through the meal and she had said nothing for a while . |
| 28 | And she had said she wanted to see places of historical interest . |
| 29 | And she had said yes , of course , being adventurous in front of their friends . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , Havvie , ’ Sally-Anne murmured ; this was going to be even harder than she had thought — and she had said nothing to her uncle Orrin — she could not , not until her engagement was irrevocably over . |