Example sentences of "had [verb] [to-vb] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Mates had brought in Sally-Anne 's basket after Dr Neil had intervened to save her , and driven off a Jem Higgins who was by then a little fearful at having laid Sally-Anne so low . |
| 2 | She had expected mockery , and , judging by the unnatural stillness she felt in fitzAlan 's body , he had intended to mock her . |
| 3 | The Pushkin police officers had intended to take her to St Petersburg police station when they discovered she was a foreigner . |
| 4 | It was this , his wife had said , which he had intended to gas her with , using the fumes from the car 's exhaust . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought you might like it , ’ he commented , and Fabia had to give her special attention to catkins , and to where lilac was about to break out of bud , because as her heart began to race she could n't help but think that Ven had intended to bring her with him to Petřín , even as he 'd casually tossed that invitation at her . |
| 6 | I said I was not commencing duties until the next day as my girlfriend worked in Richmond and I had arranged to see her , which I had , by phone . |
| 7 | He had arranged to meet her after racing in the White Lion at Feltham . |
| 8 | It was as if events had conspired to make her forget Ascot , Pendero , the fact that the most important person in her world had been clubbed to death because he wanted to save her from the fate that he had suffered . |
| 9 | But Claire Fraser was out there and he had undertaken to find her and persuade her to come home . |
| 10 | In those twenty minutes , Luke had told him that he had found part-time employment at the Old Rectory , Anna had told him that his mother had found employment at a Windsor gift shop , and his mother-in-law , Laura , had telephoned to say she had landed three lines in a television commercial for an Irish stout , dressed as a pearly queen . |
| 11 | ‘ Your spy ? ’ she gibed , recalling that Cavell had been with her when another DJ had telephoned to ask her out to a street market that only operated at night . |
| 12 | Late the following morning he had telephoned to inform her that he would be out of Taiwan for some days as a problem requiring his personal attention had arisen at the commercial recording studio he owned in Singapore . |
| 13 | As she turned , they had to try to follow her , but the rapidity of her movements , the unpredictability of her changes of direction , kept wrong-footing them . |
| 14 | When Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters ( 1866 ) has been to visit the Towers , her father declares that he had expected to find her so ‘ polite and ceremonious ’ that he read a few chapters of Sir Charles Grandison in order to bring himself up to concert pitch . |
| 15 | Mrs Hellyer 's sister had come to visit her , turning up as she often did , without warning and in tears . |
| 16 | She 'd never had any more until the inspector had come to say she must go back to London . |
| 17 | By the fireplace , there was what was known as a ‘ Turkish corner ’ , protected by a screen , in which the Empress normally sat either to read or to talk informally with someone who had come to see her . |
| 18 | Bathsheba , however , knew that he had come to see her , and felt extremely guilty . |
| 19 | Anne said indignantly to Sarah who had come to see her , but Sarah thought the world was well rid of him . |
| 20 | A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life . |
| 21 | He had come to realise she was no puppet to be manipulated . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was because she was American , but all this supposition failed before the one fact that mattered to him : he had come to love her passionately , wanted to fulfil that love , and he did not know what to do about it ! |
| 23 | The night Ellie first wore the gown to the opera , her three eldest brothers all wolf-whistled her to the door and Patsy , his eyes like saucers , gave her a corsage of orchids and escorted her to the limousine which had come to collect her . |
| 24 | After he had come to collect her at the flat they joined a party of junior officers and debutantes at the Haymarket Theatre to see Pygmalion by the fashionable playwright George Bernard Shaw . |
| 25 | So this woman she was lost , not because of what she 'd done , but because , simply , she had never ever been found , and Jesus had come to find her , he had come to rescue her , he had come to save her . |
| 26 | For a moment Flavia believed that she had come to scold her and cringed . |
| 27 | Missy had heard their engines long before a human ear could pick up the first faint sound and had come to tell her . |
| 28 | Then that particular Saturday , Leith 's outgoing if slightly irresponsible brother had come to tell her excitedly , ‘ I 've just been chatting to Rosemary Green ! ’ |
| 29 | When news came of Robin 's death , it was at a weekend ; she shut herself away , and saw no one , not even Nathan Holland who had come to console her . |
| 30 | Courtiers who had come to expect her barely to acknowledge them were suddenly treated to radiant smiles and cheerful banter . |