Example sentences of "and she had [vb pp] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | They 'd shared a bed in Cumberland and she had comforted Gordon because nothing was quite right . |
| 4 | His generosity had got her out of gaol , and she had misled him about her sailing ability . |
| 5 | And she had answered , ‘ Oh , thank God . |
| 6 | And she had answered , ‘ The sooner the better . |
| 7 | Let's go and see it , he had said , and she had recoiled at first . |
| 8 | Sally had chided when the taxi had dropped Harriet off and she had bundled unceremoniously into the house . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And she had sounded fairly unequivocal about what she wanted from him , too . |
| 11 | Her social life seemed to be quite full , and she had gone out with a young man on a couple of occasions . |
| 12 | Her marriage had broken up , and she had gone to live with a man who was starting an art gallery in the Lake District . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Penny for them , ’ said Adam , when they were halfway through the meal and she had said nothing for a while . |
| 19 | And she had said she wanted to see places of historical interest . |
| 20 | And she had said yes , of course , being adventurous in front of their friends . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Fernando had said and she had said , and really it boiled down to the misuse of the three most precious words in the universal language — I love you ! |
| 23 | And she had broken free with a scandalized exclamation : ‘ Damien ! |
| 24 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 25 | The difference was that the teacher in the first group really related to the material and to the children , and she had understood the underlying purpose and challenge of RE and was able to point up the discussion , listening carefully to what the children said and leading them on in their thinking . |
| 26 | ‘ Poor Gloria , ’ she said , but secretly delighted ; for there had been a tinge of envy , and she had missed her chum , always out with Tom , tall and crisply blond , blue-eyed , and whose father was a lawyer . |
| 27 | Family meant a great deal to him , obviously , and she had witnessed for herself his kindness and strength . |
| 28 | ‘ Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory ’ she was told in Philippians 2 — and she had striven and been vainglorious . |
| 29 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
| 30 | The courts ' attitude did not depend on endowing the husband in such cases with the role of agent for the lender , but they demonstrated an equitable intervention in favour of married women where the lender knew of the husband/wife relationship , had done nothing to ensure that the wife understood the transaction , and she had received no independent advice . |