Example sentences of "she had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literary articles were the result of her home study of literature — she had grown up during the establishment of the free library system in Britain , which she used extensively to supplement her elementary education . |
| 2 | She said with a shock that she realised she had grown up among the men on her father 's farm without seeing them as people you could conceivably fancy . |
| 3 | For , when she had woken up , rather late that morning , her usual brightness had been replaced by a quiet , sinking unhappiness , and instead of getting straight out of bed and opening the curtains to see what kind of weather was there , she had huddled down between the sheets , reluctant to face anything . |
| 4 | She was thought to haunt the Dane Hills of Leicestershire in England , and to live in a cave she had dug out of the rock with her own hands . |
| 5 | Bland little symbols were only mirrors of colour and shape that she had to push around into the order her teachers wanted . |
| 6 | Was that why she had moved out of the Wilson family home ? |
| 7 | For the first time since she had moved back into the house , she knew she could n't face an evening with Jacob . |
| 8 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 9 | Snatching an old raincoat from the hallstand she had plunged out into the rain . |
| 10 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |
| 11 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 12 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 13 | She had called in at the office once since she left and had been greeted with pleasure . |
| 14 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 15 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 16 | But she was gone , she had run down in the thick tree shadows to a side street , was down that and in the busy main street within sixty seconds after she had thrown the stone . |
| 17 | She had stood out in the crowd even amongst the beautiful beach children of San Francisco . |
| 18 | Now he would know that she had rushed out of the solar , half dressed , to find him . |
| 19 | She could feel the tightness in her chest which she had experienced when she had rushed out into the night the previous week . |
| 20 | Shelley looked at the date she had scribbled on to the surgery diary . |
| 21 | A teacher , again in a Southall primary school , told of an ‘ amusing ’ incident when an Indian girl of ten was reduced to tears when she had to go out in the sun in the summer term . |
| 22 | Sarah was kept busy replenishing dishes , and every time she had to go down to the kitchen she was afraid of missing the Reverend Morey , but he appeared last of all . |
| 23 | Then she had to go back to the shop to get our fish and chips , so we bundled up the rest of the wood and , as it was dark , ventured out to see if Dad could find some customers for his new business . |
| 24 | She had to go back to the theatre and see this thing through , for tonight , at least . |
| 25 | She had to chow down with the others in the common-room now she was mobile . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That 's why she would sometimes sign the order over to me so that I could put it through my account — otherwise she had to queue up at the post office , as I said . ’ |
| 28 | She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her . |
| 29 | She had seen Madge that morning when she had gone round with the news about the kiosk . |
| 30 | When the laundry maid had told her he had been married , she had gone up to the high moors and wept . |