Example sentences of "she had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " 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 | So she had grown up in a cold , almost emotionally empty vacuum . |
4 | For , when she had woken up , rather late that morning , her usual brightness had been replaced by a quiet , sinking unhappiness , and instead of getting straight out of bed and opening the curtains to see what kind of weather was there , she had huddled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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Bland little symbols were only mirrors of colour and shape that she had to push around into the order her teachers wanted . |
7 | Was that why she had moved out of the Wilson family home ? |
8 | For the first time since she had moved back into the house , she knew she could n't face an evening with Jacob . |
9 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
10 | She had thrashed around like a freshly caught trout on a grassy bank . |
11 | Snatching an old raincoat from the hallstand she had plunged out into the rain . |
12 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
15 | She had called in at the office once since she left and had been greeted with pleasure . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Thus , when Remedios the Beauty disappears , the narrative records the fact that outsiders were of the opinion that she had run off with a man and that the story of her ascent into heaven was an invention of her family to cover up the scandal . |
21 | She had stood out in the crowd even amongst the beautiful beach children of San Francisco . |
22 | She had swayed back into an upright position and reverted to a tone of easy confidence . |
23 | Now he would know that she had rushed out of the solar , half dressed , to find him . |
24 | She could feel the tightness in her chest which she had experienced when she had rushed out into the night the previous week . |
25 | Shelley looked at the date she had scribbled on to the surgery diary . |
26 | ‘ She had to go out for a moment . ’ |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | She had to go back to the theatre and see this thing through , for tonight , at least . |