Example sentences of "[noun sg] she had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas . |
| 2 | Snatching an old raincoat from the hallstand she had plunged out into the rain . |
| 3 | She reached down to pick up the sweater she had thrown on to her own oilskins . |
| 4 | One night Kit stumbled by , when Ariel was sitting outside the cabin , with the baby sleeping near her in the small hammock she had rigged up for him . |
| 5 | As she stared at him , she knew it had come , the moment of physical and emotional confrontation she had held off for so long , and she felt so vulnerable that she could barely breathe . |
| 6 | Wendy betrayed by Rhoda 's desire for Ken : betrayed by the author of her own being : no wonder she had faded out of the world so quietly and gently and quickly , as if understanding it were better she had never been born . |
| 7 | After buying fresh bread she had gone on to the fish market where boxes full of melting ice displayed what was left of the morning 's catch , much of which she did n't recognise . |
| 8 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 9 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 10 | Hard to credit that he had once fathered a daughter — and a beautiful girl she had turned out to be — like her granny … |
| 11 | She rose early and spent the morning with Aunt Emily or visiting the kitchen and garden and orchard and doing the household accounts and the correspondence she had taken over from her aunt . |
| 12 | Holding the red Conway Stewart pen she had picked up from the grass , she went over the scene again and again . |
| 13 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 14 | The Palmer & Pearson file she had brought up with her was forgotten as she swung round and headed for the door . |
| 15 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 16 | Had n't everything gone wrong from the moment she had come back to Eastlake ? |
| 17 | She also admired Matilda who had sworn her to secrecy about the parrot job she had brought off at home , and also the great hair-oil switch which had bleached her father 's hair . |
| 18 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 19 | Before the war she had gone out with those fishers and watched them spear their quarry by torchlight in the early hours of the morning . |
| 20 | In the very beginning she had sat down with Ruth at the small table . |
| 21 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 22 | That day she had wandered off between leaving her mother 's kitchen and arriving in her grandmother 's sitting-room . |
| 23 | She was very tired : every day that week she had got up at five . |
| 24 | By some miracle she had hung on to her job with the Caring Chauvinist , but she found it exhausting coping with that , and running the house , and looking after Perdita , and more and more after Violet and Eddie . |
| 25 | In fact , she sounded particularly cheerful ; it was the first morning she had woken up with no trace of sickness , and was cheered at the thought of entering the ‘ blooming ’ phase of pregnancy . |
| 26 | The morning she had slammed out of the house and walked through the blitzed London streets to Goddy 's office she had been out of her mind ; shell-shocked , or something . |
| 27 | Henrietta , tall for her age and spectacularly thin , stood by them in the bikini she had put on for the sunshine and the wand , hovering round the crowd , finally pointed at her . |
| 28 | Then she picked up the tall glass she had carried down with her , and which was now empty , walked sedately to the water 's edge , filled it with ice-cold water and returned to see that he had not shifted . |
| 29 | The sort of passionate encounter she had read about in novels . |
| 30 | But as they continued down the hill to Dingle and along the road that curved round the harbour to Ballingolin , she was even more bewildered to hear him reciting family history to her — history she had taken in with her mother 's milk and knew by heart . |