Example sentences of "she had [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm just thankful that the baby was asleep because if she had moved her face the knife would have cut her . ’ |
| 2 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 3 | For a brief moment , she had seen herself raising the tiny silver gun and pulling the trigger , once and then again , the blood appearing like a diseased flower on Lewis 's soiled shirt . |
| 4 | Once again , she refrained from mentioning that she had asked them to keep the baby in the nursery as his presence in the room was upsetting her . |
| 5 | She had invited him to share the meal . |
| 6 | Rain told him she had heard nothing to suggest the police were suspicious about the provenance of the paintings . |
| 7 | Oh I said , well she had to say something gave the three back , get her flowers and er chocolates or something and the same for his mum . |
| 8 | The sea was so cold she had to force herself to take the plunge . |
| 9 | Since childhood , since her early school days , New Year 's Eve had possessed for her a mournful terror : she had elected it to represent the Nothingness which was her own life , the solid , cheerful festival which had seemed to be the lives of others . |
| 10 | She had done everything to deny the truth , but how could she deny it now , when she was burning under his touch ? |
| 11 | When she had finished she stroked the letters back into their creases , muttering to herself , ‘ Of course , of course . ’ |
| 12 | John Morgan , 64 , who was her driver in 1988 when the young township activist was killed , told the Johannesburg Sunday Times that she had ordered him to remove the body from her Soweto home and ‘ dump the dog ’ . |
| 13 | Ever since she had held the baby she had found herself treating the doll in the same way . |
| 14 | However , that morning she had found herself preparing the children 's sandwiches for school — as she did each day — by buttering newspaper instead of the bread . |
| 15 | How easily she had let him manipulate the transition . |
| 16 | While she spoke , she remembered Maxie 's grumble from behind his newspaper , the last time he had been home , when she had told him to do the leaves . |
| 17 | Harry was able to fit in only two further meetings with Alice — one when she had taken him to see the very impressive new branch of the Maison Verveine , and the other when she had invited him back to the flat to meet Jules . |
| 18 | The surname , from her first husband , had been Polish , but she had adapted it to fit the modern age . |
| 19 | The emotions mounting within her had made her forget the kiwi , and she now left his knee to sit on the tree trunk . |