Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she had faced up to that , it was an easy decision . |
| 2 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |
| 3 | The boards she had broken through were an entrance to the cellar . |
| 4 | Dana could put on a good show ; no one would know she had broken down and confessed her need for Roman 's strength . |
| 5 | Later the legends and stories with which she had grown up would be added to them — stories of astonishing miracles and heroic adventures , by which she and her father , Solomon Klinitsky-Klein — whose influence on Leonard should not be overlooked — fired his imagination and stimulated his ideas . |
| 6 | There were other friends too and people she had grown up with . |
| 7 | For Cecilia , however — a young black girl placed in care at 13 because her mother could n't cope — the fact that she could express anger and upset with her sister , whom she dearly loved , resulted in social workers suggesting a move , ‘ for her own good ’ , to a smaller family-style establishment in the country , miles from the inner city community in which she had grown up . |
| 8 | Within a week she was living with a black foster parent , in the area in which she had grown up , and was able to resume contact with her sister . |
| 9 | Where she had grown up ? |
| 10 | His wife , Belinda , Herbert 's mother , is the ‘ only daughter of a certain quite accidental deceased Knight ’ , who has been brought up to consider herself a deprived aristocrat : ‘ she had grown up highly ornamental , but perfectly helpless and useless ’ , and spends her time studying Court guides , leaving her household and seven younger children to the haphazard care of the servants . |
| 11 | She had grown up amongst beautiful clothes , been dressed from childhood in designer fashion , been made to stand still for fittings for her graduation dress and her first ball gown , and hated every moment of it . |
| 12 | So she had grown up in a cold , almost emotionally empty vacuum . |
| 13 | Since she had grown up , they had become the best of buddies . |
| 14 | She said with a shock that she realised she had grown up among the men on her father 's farm without seeing them as people you could conceivably fancy . |
| 15 | Just the very fact of being there , with her parents , in the place of her childhood , in the lovely , slightly shabby rambling old house where she had grown up , was sufficient to effect an almost miraculous cure . |
| 16 | The literary articles were the result of her home study of literature — she had grown up during the establishment of the free library system in Britain , which she used extensively to supplement her elementary education . |
| 17 | God , but she had grown up a lot since then . |
| 18 | She had grown up . |
| 19 | Londoners were more callous than the Greeks she had grown up with . |
| 20 | Even though her parents had moved to the States , she still had friends here , people she had grown up with . |
| 21 | Tales of Robin Hood were very much to Anna 's romantic taste , and she listened enthralled as Merrill searched her memory for the legends and folklore she had grown up with . |
| 22 | It had been a special childhood , full of laughter and fun ; Mark and she had grown up together as friends , as well as brother and sister . |
| 23 | Rosemary loved him , she was certain of that , but Rosemary was in a particular hell of her own , her love for Travis warring with the convictions she had grown up with . |
| 24 | It was an attitude she had encountered before admittedly — from people who assumed that because she had grown up in hotels , she had been able to enjoy all the comforts afforded to the customers . |
| 25 | Bought as a second pony after she had grown out of Buttons , he had proved himself such a marvellous jumper and such a resolute galloper , Artemis could n't possibly imagine life without him . |
| 26 | She had winkled out of him that he got the story from Georgie and she had much trouble persuading him it was a joke . |
| 27 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 28 | She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's . |
| 29 | For , when she had woken up , rather late that morning , her usual brightness had been replaced by a quiet , sinking unhappiness , and instead of getting straight out of bed and opening the curtains to see what kind of weather was there , she had huddled down between the sheets , reluctant to face anything . |
| 30 | And yet when she had peered down at Scathach 's body she had looked through leaves , through summer . |