Example sentences of "[subord] she had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she had run out of steam and no longer cared whether she lived or died , there was no way she was going to give up . |
| 2 | And , although she had come up with the idea of a visit to Oxford very much on the spur of the moment , it was n't a bad one . |
| 3 | As soon as he walked through the door of the rather dark basement flat in the Bayswater Road and heard her explain that Pauline 's boyfriend was ill so she had gone off to his place to see what she could do for him , Freddie wanted to flee . |
| 4 | Juliet had managed to grab a cup of coffee and a sandwich , but had been reluctant to leave Wendy Target virtually alone on the ward , so she had hurried back after ten minutes . |
| 5 | Once she had faced up to that , it was an easy decision . |
| 6 | ‘ For this same reason once she had caught up with her husband ( and been sent quickly home as being very undutiful and immoral travelling about alone and not remaining in her place at home against his return ) it would have been inconceivable for her to go to the police . |
| 7 | She had n't even known herself where she would be staying until she had walked out of the station the day before and asked a taxi-driver to take her somewhere clean and as cheap as possible . |
| 8 | It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky . |
| 9 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |
| 10 | She could not refuse him , accordingly , and did not ; but more and more it was almost as if she had given in to Mr Poole 's demands ; one man was much like another . |
| 11 | He did not believe that Rose , if she had come back into the flat , would have let the cat out , or left it unfed . |
| 12 | It was an attitude she had encountered before admittedly — from people who assumed that because she had grown up in hotels , she had been able to enjoy all the comforts afforded to the customers . |
| 13 | For the first time since she had moved back into the house , she knew she could n't face an evening with Jacob . |
| 14 | Besides , she 'd lost enough weight in the past weeks since she had walked out on Marcus not to have to worry about her seams splitting after the odd indulgence ! |
| 15 | Bought as a second pony after she had grown out of Buttons , he had proved himself such a marvellous jumper and such a resolute galloper , Artemis could n't possibly imagine life without him . |
| 16 | The smell excited her like a pheromone , even now , three years after she had walked out on all that madness . |
| 17 | The children played a game , jumping into the deep green pools in the torrent from the big rocks under the star apple tree ; the cold of the water was so intense that Martha felt her body flush to its core with a spasm of heat ; even after she had scrambled out of the water her flesh still tingled from the shock . |
| 18 | You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League . |
| 19 | ‘ What do you want ? ’ she asked mutinously , deliriously thankful that she had succeeded in not succumbing to the urge to blub her eyes out when she had dashed out of the living-room . |
| 20 | She had worn it twice , once when she had gone out for dinner with her father and Leo and on the night of Sylvie 's return from Italy . |
| 21 | She remembered the distinct thud of disappointment verging on alarm she had experienced when she had stepped out of the lift to find him surrounded by luggage , obviously leaving . |
| 22 | She could feel the tightness in her chest which she had experienced when she had rushed out into the night the previous week . |
| 23 | And yet when she had peered down at Scathach 's body she had looked through leaves , through summer . |
| 24 | He smiled and looked down , remembering that moment in the machine when she had glared back at him . |
| 25 | From the first night he had met her , when she had stood up to him in his own house , he had been attracted to her . |
| 26 | So , thought Meredith grimly when she had arrived back in the kitchen of Rose Cottage , do we rush on madly to our doom . |
| 27 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 28 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 29 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 30 | To be honest , it looked as though she had given up on being a woman . |