Example sentences of "she had for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 2 | She had for nearly a month washed fanatically , with all the clarity and determination of which five-year-olds are capable . |
| 3 | She was known to all in the French Quarter for her good looks , her own hard-luck story ( two marriages , two troubled kids , a problem with drink ) and the soft spot she had for the hard-luck stories of others , poets in particular . |
| 4 | Gloria came every day , just as she had for Baby . |
| 5 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 6 | Svend thanked her warmly and talked about next year ; she would see the exhibit then , and he would welcome any suggestions she had for its display . |
| 7 | She had tossed and turned — as she had for a fortnight — thinking of Amy , full of foreboding . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe it was somethin' she had for breakfast , ’ Sonny said . |
| 9 | Sally , her father 's wife , had advised her on more than one occasion , but Harriet had as little time for stylists as she had for clothes — and besides , she rather liked her hair just as it was . |
| 10 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 11 | The child was entirely Lassiter in appearance so that , while she was pleased on Stephen 's behalf , Tamar could not feel the deep love which she had for her daughter . |
| 12 | Not until her mid-thirties did she find her taste change , and even then by chance , as good manners constrained her to eat what she had for so many years quite strenuously resisted . |
| 13 | The Trunchbull had as great a dislike for long hair on boys as she had for plaits and pigtails on girls and she was about to show it . |
| 14 | And Ben was all she had for companionship ; those who would have been her so-called friends she would n't let over her step , and those she would have liked to call friends would n't come near her step . |
| 15 | She felt better than she had for months . |
| 16 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 17 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 18 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 19 | On the other side of the scales was the love she had for her family and Ireland . |
| 20 | When a sender judges her receiver 's schema to correspond to a significant degree with her own , she need only mention features which are not contained in it ( the time of getting up and what she had for breakfast , for example ) ; other features ( like getting out of bed and getting dressed ) will be assumed to be present by default , unless we are told otherwise . |
| 21 | I did ask Mme Guérigny what evidence she had for these sacrificial murders . |
| 22 | She had for 10 days refused all solid food . |
| 23 | ( d ) She had for the previous 24 hours been receiving narcotic drugs and antibiotics and was in a state in which it was necessary to give her oxygen . |
| 24 | ‘ Poor thing , ’ she might have said another time , but now any sympathy she had for the machine was swamped by her fears for her children . |
| 25 | She felt reckless and more alive than she had for months , her own desire rising as his hungry mouth fell on her breasts like a starving child , and his eager hands tore at her clothes . |
| 26 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 27 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 28 | Capsules that she had for years . |
| 29 | She kept wanting to cry , as she had with Stephen , as she had for so much of the time since Timothy Gedge had come into their lives . |
| 30 | The reverence she had for glamour touched him . |