Example sentences of "she had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was wearing a navy sweater and a light-coloured shirt and blue jeans , and her heart lurched because time shrank to the moment when she had finally walked away from him , one autumn morning , early , with their love already an awful deadweight in her memory . |
| 2 | She had nearly melted away on the spot . |
| 3 | She had met no one she had even come close to loving . |
| 4 | Spending far too many nights staring wide-eyed into the dark , growing hungry for rest , and irritable , so that this morning she had even spoken sharply to Odette . |
| 5 | Teesside Crown Court heard how she had later gone home by bus to discover all the lights on and the door open at her home in Eddison Way , Hemlington . |
| 6 | She had completely forgotten now about the rest of the class . |
| 7 | If she had simply gone straight to France when she had received his letter she would have fallen for it even more . |
| 8 | Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so . |
| 9 | Her duties over , she played chess with him in the evening , or childish card and board games with him and Matey , laughed , talked and read , in some odd way enjoying herself in this hard life more than she had ever done before in her old soft one . |
| 10 | If she had ever thought much about the future , I think she would have seen her mother sitting in a chair by the fire , knitting ; after all , her father had been dying all her life . |
| 11 | She had never travelled alone through the forest at night before . |
| 12 | She had never felt well since then . |
| 13 | She would go off alone for long walks over the cliffs — something she had never done before in winter . |
| 14 | Tilda 's respect for her sister , whom she had never seen before in the possession of so much money , reduced her almost to silence ; in a hoarse whisper she asked whether they were going to get the records straight away . |
| 15 | If she felt the presence of a man she had never known here in this house , just how much did Marguerite feel his presence and just how much did she need it at this time ? |
| 16 | It would have been better if she had never come here to Spain . |
| 17 | She knew why he was doing this and she knew too that this was an intimacy she had never permitted before in her life . |
| 18 | But then she had always reacted strangely to the subject of ageing , had always feared it . |
| 19 | When , as a child , he had been desperate for her love , and had offered his own , she had always turned away from him . |
| 20 | But whatever talents she had once had , she had now turned ferociously against them , whereas her husband did still pay a curious self-willed homage to the intellectual virtues ; he possessed an 1895 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica which he would , from time to time , read . |
| 21 | Just as Ella had cared for the poor and the prostitute whom no one had wanted to know so Eva began to appreciate feelings she had only known before in her work in Africa . |
| 22 | Although she had consistently turned away from singing opportunities — ‘ The more people nagged , the more I was determined to stay away ’ — she realised that this was something that , say , Lulu would never even consider . |