Example sentences of "she had [adv] [verb] [adv prt] " 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 | She had finally hit back ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had finally walked out on him and it had only been the intervention of Philpott that had brought them back together again . |
| 5 | She made it in four , her hair still wet from the shower , wearing jeans and a T-shirt beneath the white coat she had hastily thrown on . |
| 6 | Paige glanced up from the rock she had wearily sunk on to . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When she had eventually plucked up her courage and looked out of the window , she had been entranced by the views from the carriage and the speed of travel . |
| 9 | She said that she had nearly given up the idea , but ‘ every time she met a cripple her conscience smote her ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had n't filled in a card for Anna , but somehow it was too much trouble . |
| 12 | ‘ Hello ? ’ she enquired , and would n't have been at all surprised , the way her head was , had it been Reception ringing to say that she had n't filled in her reservation form correctly . |
| 13 | ‘ He said he thought his mummy had been having car trouble because she had n't turned up . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Surely she had n't gone out again , forgetting that she had left a friend waiting on the telephone ? |
| 16 | Even if she had n't sussed out who had ordered the stuff , she should have asked for his advice and help in disposing of it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As she blacked out , she thought it was a pity she had n't gotten round to finishing the Christmas decorations . |
| 20 | Mum had taken to her bed in Jean 's place on the day she left our house , and she had n't got up since . |
| 21 | He 'd waited for Lucy but then , when she had n't come out alone , he 'd stayed well back in the shadows . |
| 22 | She had n't come out with them . |
| 23 | And she had n't come back . |
| 24 | She was glad now that she had n't put up the lights . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As he turned to face her , Ronni was suddenly wishing she had n't sat down quite so hurriedly . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She had n't switched off the light . |
| 29 | But she had n't found out what . |
| 30 | This time she had n't picked up the thread automatically . |