Example sentences of "she had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had that well she 's claiming for loss of earnings , think she 's broke a leg , we do n't know were n't allowed to take a photo bike she had a brand new . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This time she had a gambit . |
| 4 | He thought she had a attitude problem . |
| 5 | Nahum would be horrified if he discovered she had a child . |
| 6 | He had always been so scathing about psychiatrists and psychotherapists , emphatic that she was normal , that she would be just like any other mother once she had a child of her own . |
| 7 | In spite of the image of her that is presented , women coming to her know she had a child , and that she suffered . |
| 8 | Perhaps once she had a child of her own , David 's child — But it would n't be easy . |
| 9 | I think in fact she had to leave the Air Force because she had a child . |
| 10 | He knew he could get away with asking her to do this — she had a bit of a weakness for him . |
| 11 | so she had a bit of a benny it was |
| 12 | she had a bit of fling |
| 13 | she had a bit of Geordie . |
| 14 | He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance . |
| 15 | She had a knack of breaking hearts and being mystified by the effect . |
| 16 | She had a way of leaving one without an answer . |
| 17 | And she had a way of conjuring up places , in terms of their dimensions , that led those same children to explore their houses and fields blindfold ; the dark world that they discovered with their fingertips was new to them — but not frightening as they had supposed it to be . |
| 18 | She had a way of laughing , and singing , and it was like ice down your back . |
| 19 | She had a way of never doubting other people or herself , it was headstrong , he says , and naive and infuriating , but it was also touching and one let her have her way . |
| 20 | She looked so slim and young in that cream shawl above her blue taffeta gown , with the pretty frilled bonnet over her gleaming hair ; she had a way of walking , thought the watching girl , with just a little envy … so easy and graceful , even though she was with child . |
| 21 | She had a way of looking slightly obliquely at me , as if she knew something I did not — not anything to do with the role she was playing , but about life in general ; as if she too had been taking lessons from the stone head . |
| 22 | Yet Batty noticed that in spite of her reserve she had a way of inspiring people to do things for her . |
| 23 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 24 | When captured she had a calf at foot . |
| 25 | She had a haemorrhage just before she came in . |
| 26 | She looked as if she had a lapful of tropical bird feathers . |
| 27 | ‘ She had a message from her father . |
| 28 | She had a cupboardful of Chinese remedies . |
| 29 | After re-packing her case , she fervently hoped for the last time , she had a wash , and because it looked sunny and warm outside dressed in a skimpy vest with a blouse over the top , and a rather strange Fifties-style skirt covered in poppies . |
| 30 | It always worked with Weenie when she had a misery . |