Example sentences of "she had walk [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The woman was in black stilettoes , walking slowly and evidently in pain — as if she had walked into the country in inappropriate shoes and was blistered and had a long way to go , as if this hot summer wind from the chalk hills was almost too much for her .
2 He had been carried along by his wife 's extraordinary power of making decisions , from the time when she had walked into the offices of Glebe and Pargeter , when his old father was alive , and told him that her great-aunt had left her some money and she had decided to invest it in a London house .
3 She had walked into the house and shouted her usual , I 'm back . ’
4 Or they might hear she had walked into a police station somewhere later in the day .
5 If she had walked into a room and found him with her bag in his hands , the decision would have been made for her .
6 She had walked into that café like someone landing on the moon , her eyes wide with wonder and alarm .
7 Once had been at the theatre , when she had walked into the foyer and received a thoroughly unpleasant jolt when she had seen him standing only yards away , and the second time had been at a party .
8 Obviously she had walked into some sort of a secret and Felipe was not at all amused by the fact .
9 Rose , who had n't any recollection of the Leesons , had been surprised by Jane Leeson 's expression when she had walked into the shop .
10 She said that she had walked past the quarry previously and had not been concerned about it .
11 She had walked for four days , and lost one of her younger children on the way .
12 After she had walked for another half hour she was tired to the bone .
13 Very occasionally , on our walks , Grandma would tell me things about Wales : about the great cart-horses who died of heart trouble from toiling to and fro up the steep cliff road all their lives ; and how , as a child , she had walked to church along the sands .
14 But the thing which must have been nearest to her heart , because she returned to it so often , was how as a child she had walked to church along the sands .
15 A couple of Saturdays previously , she had walked with him along the Portobello Road .
16 Through that illusion she had walked with blessed speed , and out beyond it into a world of other possibilities .
17 As she had walked towards him he had felt a physical pain in his guts .
18 That she had walked towards , pale , seeking , joyful ,
19 She had walked through Catterick Bridge and was heading towards Scorton when she was attacked .
20 And then the moment had passed , and tall and tanned and fit in the sunshine she had walked down the green street with the gardens either side of her , and had known by an instinctive glance that her mother still lived there , that nothing had changed .
21 The last time she had walked down this lane she had been too anxious about Susan to notice very much .
22 She had walked down the stairs and for a moment been taken for , and almost become , Kettering 's wife .
23 The close stifling feeling of menace , present as she had walked down the path on that evening in May , returned a hundredfold , settling above the little cottage , like an ancient , ugly crone over her cooking pot .
24 She had rung the doorbell , but as no-one had come she had walked round the house to the garden .
25 And after his death it seemed to her that she had walked in darkness like an automaton through a deep and narrow canyon of grief in which all her energies , all her physical strength , had been husbanded to get through each day .
26 It was very hard indeed to believe she had walked in there with a wolf creature and that he had drawn her down onto the forest floor and made love to her …
27 Rosa too woke up the next day unsure whether she had walked in the street below in a dream , but the mud between her toes showed her that she had indeed left the house .
28 Having seen Mr Jeffreys and diagnosed an acute and fairly painful dose of tonsillitis , she had intended going straight back to her cabin , instead of which , without even being aware of it , she had walked in the opposite direction .
29 She had to walk into work tomorrow and face her colleagues .
30 She was furious that she had to walk down the hill in her six-inch heels .
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