Example sentences of "she had [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That afternoon , hearing him talk about his sister , then lying beneath the trees with him , she had really thought she had finally broken through to a real live human being beneath the glacial exterior . |
| 2 | They had wanted each other from that first night , and now , in this dimly lit room , with Nicolo 's mouth on hers , with his hands on her breasts , she had finally run out of lies and excuses , not just for him but for herself . |
| 3 | She had finally walked out on him and it had only been the intervention of Philpott that had brought them back together again . |
| 4 | Paige glanced up from the rock she had wearily sunk on to . |
| 5 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 6 | He could be wild and crazy at times and she had n't faced up to the fact that the way he lived his life was doing him no good , no good at all . |
| 7 | After that she reckoned that if she had n't moved on to somewhere bigger , she 'd probably be stuck here forever reading out the latest sheep prices at six o'clock every morning . |
| 8 | She had been on the verge of hysteria then ; add to that a day of travelling , with him pushing Chalon as fast as the horse could go carrying a double weight , plus the previous day 's tensions , and it was a wonder she had n't given in to it . |
| 9 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |
| 10 | As she blacked out , she thought it was a pity she had n't gotten round to finishing the Christmas decorations . |
| 11 | She had n't come out with them . |
| 12 | She was not only married but trying to conceive a child by Stephen — though as yet she had n't sat down with him and discussed her worries about her failure to become pregnant . |
| 13 | Ushering her inside , he walked into his study and just as he was about to close the door she remembered she had n't settled up with him . |
| 14 | She had not gone back to whoring , but eked out a miserable living as a washerwoman , for which she lacked the stamina . |
| 15 | Mrs Allen 's body was found at her Harberton Park home on Tuesday morning after a senior officer at the Maze informed Banbridge police that she had not turned up for work . |
| 16 | She had not sat down to breakfast , preferring to eat a handful of dry Puffkins while she sought her shoes , nor did she utter any words of affectionate farewell , not being one for dissimulation . |
| 17 | A feeling she had not known in over a decade slipped through her body . |
| 18 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 19 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 20 | Annabel had talked so much to her parents about the beautiful girl with the long golden hair , and how she had openly stood up to Sister Mary , that it was decided to invite this child to have tea with the family . |
| 21 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 22 | Although the PM had only recently arrived in Downing Street , she had already boned up on its history and as she led us round she spoke of Pitt and Walpole , Disraeli and Gladstone , and of their connection with this tapestry or picture or that room . |
| 23 | She had already fallen out with Sutton , who regarded computers with unconcealed loathing . |
| 24 | One day Mary asked her father for money for a pop concert which she had already booked up with a friend without consulting him . |
| 25 | But Main Line , an independent filmmaker , contended that it had reached an oral agreement with Basinger , a standard Hollywood handshake deal , and that she had later backed out of it . |
| 26 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 27 | She came to a point where she could see far over the town , she had instinctively gone up following the fleeing daylight , and the mist over there under a sky that was greyish and purplish and darkening again , became apparent because it was being lit up from those distant buildings and streets , the points of light vibrating through the moisture . |
| 28 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 29 | Lucy Lane arrived : in a green frock figured in black , dark hair expertly set , a shoulder bag matching her frock ; she looked as though she had just stepped out of her BMW runabout for a spot of window shopping . |
| 30 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |