Example sentences of "she had [verb] [noun sg] of the " in BNC.

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1 By now she had lost sight of the dress bag .
2 She had lost count of the number of times she had slapped his hands from her body whenever he waylaid her outside .
3 She had lost count of the seedy hotels she had stayed in .
4 She had lost track of the movement ahead of her .
5 Half convinced , she shrugged philosophically and turned to leave the apartment 's square entrance hall in which they were standing , aware of Luke following her into the luxuriously appointed lounge , a long elegant room which ended in sliding glass doors opening on to a balcony with a view she had spent part of the afternoon enjoying , pretty green parkland dotted with ornamental ponds linked by a winding , deeply cut stream that was spanned by the occasional arched stone bridge .
6 It was a scene straight out of one 's worst nightmares , and she had to clutch hold of the door as shock took the strength from her limbs .
7 And Zoya said she had got hold of the toilet rolls , and would bring them for Anna .
8 Each time she thought she had caught hold of the essential man he turned out to be as nebulous as the sea mist drifting through her fingers .
9 Esther Ward had more reason to be ashamed than her vulnerable sister Elizabeth , for she had taken advantage of the forbidden love which had grown between Elizabeth and Richard , and she had never once opened her heart to the innocent girl-child who was born out of that love .
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