Example sentences of "that she had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one knew that she had a mare . |
| 2 | Nothing either of them could say would convince Roman that she had a twin . |
| 3 | It had n't occurred to her that she had a choice . |
| 4 | For , now she had telephoned England , it had been brought home to her that she had a couple of choices to worry about . |
| 5 | She was glad to be back , glad she had survived and felt now that she had a purpose she had not had before . |
| 6 | It has been suggested that she had a secret , ironic intention , but I doubt it : she wished to give souvenirs to a number of people , and that there should be no cause for jealousy between them — though I am told that jealousy arose . |
| 7 | What had startled him was that she had a sister , Sandra Riverton , who had worked for INCUBUS in Suffolk . |
| 8 | The point about her was that she had a trick which worked and , unlike many politicians , She Was Not Found Out . |
| 9 | She felt happier about Kathleen now that she knew that she had a champion in Ella , but she had little time to dwell on the O'Neills . |
| 10 | He hugged her to him and insisted that she had a drink on the house . |
| 11 | But she was more tired than she knew , and soon she began to wish that she had a suitcase to sit on ; but hers was on the rack in that tightly packed carriage , and she could n't go back for it . |
| 12 | As she got to her feet he looked underneath her , remembering the equipment cows had , and saw that she had a semblance of the same thing , although nothing like so dangly as a cow 's , but quite satisfactorily dripping at that moment with what he supposed was milk . |
| 13 | A woman manager at Long Lartin top security prison has been suspended after reports that she had a relationship with an inmate . |
| 14 | At her trial , Jean Campbell pleaded not guilty by signs and gestures interpreted by Robert Kinniburgh , and went on to show that she knew the difference between right and wrong , was indignant at the imputation of having murdered her child , and that she had a notion of what marriage was by signing the ring on her finger and removing it , and going away . |
| 15 | Nor did she worry overmuch that she had a reputation for being harder on women officers than men . |
| 16 | She started to think that she had a vocation for taking heroic decisions , but it was really nothing more sustaining than a rabid kind of recklessness that erupted suddenly and then left her feeling bleak and inept . |
| 17 | She was surprised , because she had thought that she had a vocation not to marry . |
| 18 | I thought I could help her spiritually , perhaps show her that she had a vocation too . |
| 19 | She was so disorganised and absent-minded that , while out visiting , she would often forget that she had a daughter , leaving her stranded for hours . |
| 20 | Annabel could hardly believe that she had a daughter about to go to university . |
| 21 | Suddenly she remembered that she had a bar of chocolate somewhere . |
| 22 | I did n't expect her to do so , but what I did n't know then was that she had a holiday cottage in Muker , which is not far over the hills in Swaledale , and one day she turned up with some friends of hers . |
| 23 | When she was ten years old she discovered that she had a past . |
| 24 | A sense of adventure remained with Sara for the next few days , a sense of adventure tempered with trepidation , so that she had a sensation of flying high . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course , Len , do n't worry , ’ said Rachel gently , finding unexpectedly that she had a lump in her throat at the thought of Len having no one in his life but his parrot . |
| 26 | The new stepmother did not take to her , and yet she could have for she , too , was plain and had little to recommend her except that she had a business head and she knew about antiques and was very good at sales . |
| 27 | Then Rosie burst out with the helpful statement that she had a photograph of the keys and if Ruby 's powers were very strong she might manage with that . |
| 28 | Once I was given the address of Mikhoels ' wife , Anastasiya Pavlovna Pototskaya , and I was told that she had a lot of Chagalls , and that she may possibly want to sell them . |
| 29 | My view was that it was enough to clear it with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and that she had a war to fight . |
| 30 | It 's just that she had a headache and was a bit reticent about it , which is unlike her . |