Example sentences of "she had recognised " in BNC.

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1 He joined her in the kitchen , and she saw that the descriptions which had reached her through the field telegraph and by which she had recognised him , were accurate .
2 She had recognised the voices — Jean , Jeff 's girl and her friend , Peggy .
3 She had recognised that Jack 's jail sentence would probably — with parole — be fairly short , a year or two maybe , and she was more than prepared to sit those years out , now , in return for normal family life .
4 She had recognised that her father , too , was common , but that he was a good imitator : from the time he had taken up with her mother , who was from the middle class , he had aimed to act accordingly .
5 She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom .
6 Because from the very first syllable she had recognised it — even through the door .
7 Oh , yes , she had recognised the sexual awareness that was the dark other side of Luke 's hostility — and had tried to ignore it , but it was impossible to go on pretending it did n't exist now that the preliminary skirmishing was over and he was referring to it openly .
8 Yes , she had recognised pride as an intrinsic component of his personal make-up , and the fact that it could permit him to ignore or override her resistance , her hostility , her hatred , was probably the true measure of his confidence in her ultimate surrender .
9 It was the home of a very wealthy man , a man she had recognised as wealthy the moment she had seen him .
10 Of the few men with Thorfinn , she had recognised Osbern of Eu and the Riveire boy , and the sallow face of Gillecrist of Strathclyde .
11 Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself .
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