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Example sentences for "she had"

  • Of old, more than once, she had gone, for entertainment's sake and in brilliant company, to a fair in a provincial town.

  • She was walking up and down the room, as she had done in the morning; she stopped in her walk and looked at her brother.

  • If she had come to seek her fortune, it seemed to her that her fortune would be easy to find.

  • She had a large collection of ear-rings, and wore them in alternation; and they seemed to give a point to her Oriental or exotic aspect.

  • She had felt it, even whilst making the proposal.

  • He had hinted--she had forbidden; and it was only on the chance of his still coming that she had dismissed Oak, fearing a meeting between them just then.

  • Oh, because, as she had no friends in her childhood, he took her and put her to school, and got her her place here under your uncle.

  • Beyond the mentioned reasons with which she combated her objections, she had a strong feeling that, having been the one who began the game, she ought in honesty to accept the consequences.

  • She had a broad forehead and dark eyebrows, a trifle thicker than those of classic beauties; her gray eye was clear but not brilliant, and her features were perfectly irregular.

  • She had an illness which for many months was liable at any moment to terminate fatally, and during her long-arrested convalescence she removed the mask which she had worn for years by her husband's order.

  • She had such an expansive majesty of mien that Rowland supposed she must have some proprietary right in the villa and was not just then in a hospitable mood.

  • She had been a pretty one, too, though she probably had looked terribly frightened at the altar.

  • And in spite of the dusk Rowland could see that she had an even finer smile than he had supposed.

  • She had no doubt in the world of its being a very fine day, if the clouds would only go off, and the sun keep out.

  • She had a strong hold on old master she was considered a first rate cook, and she really was very industrious.

  • Esther was evidently much attached to Edward, and abhorred--as she had reason to do--the tyrannical and base behavior of old master.

  • She had left in haste, and without preparation; and, probably, without the knowledge of Mr. Plummer.

  • She had left at five o'clock the day before.

  • Raoul saw Christine stretch out her arms to the voice as she had done, in Perros churchyard, to the invisible violin playing The Resurrection of Lazarus.

  • It would have been quite natural if she had said, "Poor Raoul," after what had happened between them.

  • She had certainly a very intelligent expression in her eyes when Sara took her in her arms.

  • She had large, cold, fishy eyes, and a large, cold, fishy smile.

  • She felt as if she had lived a long, long time.

  • She had heard a great many desirable things of the young soldier from the lady who had recommended her school to him.

  • She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

  • Marianne looked as if she had no doubt on that point.

  • So far it was all as she had foreseen; but on entering the house she beheld what no foresight had taught her to expect.

  • She had nothing to say one day that she had not said the day before.

  • Elinor's compassion for him increased, as she had reason to suspect that the misery of disappointed love had already been known to him.

  • Now again waxed Ralph eager concerning his quest; for true it is that since he had had that story of the damsel from the minstrel, she had stood in the way before the Well at the World's End.

  • And the word came from her: "I am a sending of the woman whom thou hast loved, and I should not have been here save she had sent me.

  • Yea," she said; and came and stood before him: and he deemed that she was scarce so sad as she had been; and she stood with her hands joined and her eyes downcast.

  • And her face became sad and distressful, and she turned and departed as she had come.

  • She had no reason for walking elsewhere, and why should she not go that way?

  • She had used to tease Wildeve, but that was before another had favoured him.

  • And the interview then terminated, Mrs. Yeobright returning homeward as she had come.

  • She had advanced to the secret recesses of sensuousness, yet had hardly crossed the threshold of conventionality.

  • She had something of an estranged mien; the solitude exhaled from the heath was concentrated in this face that had risen from it.

  • She had a head on those shapely shoulders of hers, and dignity!

  • She had hastened to her mother the moment she had been liberated.

  • It seemed incredible that she should not make some slight attempt to befriend me; yet, as I recalled, she had made no effort to speak with me after we had reached the village.

  • She had a great deal of conversation, Longueville speedily learned, and she expressed herself with extreme frankness and decision.

  • She had also a slender little figure, neatly rounded, and delicate, narrow hands, prettily gloved.

  • To do so she had to pass near him, and as she approached he instinctively got up, holding his drawing in one hand.

  • She was not pretty enough--she had a bad profile.

  • She had a charmingly chiselled face, with a free, pure outline, a clear, fair complexion, and the eyes and hair of a dusky beauty.

  • Roxana had heard that phrase somewhere, the fine sound of it had pleased her ear, and as she had supposed it was a name, she loaded it on to her darling.

  • She had seen it on the floor too, with a rotten apple squashed over it, for the farm had changed its politics from time to time.

  • Her memory was already failing when she received it, and I daresay she forgot the contents as soon as she had read it; otherwise, in the light of what subsequently happened, we should have heard something of this letter before now.

  • Later there had been Northcotes and Aclands, and many other newer names that she had forgotten; the names changed, but it was always Libruls and Toories, Yellows and Blues.

  • She had an idea that she was going to be reincarnated as an otter," said Amanda.

  • For longer than anyone could remember she had pattered to and fro between oven and wash- house and dairy, and out to chicken-run and garden, grumbling and muttering and scolding, but working unceasingly.

  • She was by trade a weaver; and by constant application to her business, she had been in a good degree preserved from the blighting and dehumanizing effects of slavery.

  • She had served my old master faithfully from youth to old age.

  • She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had become a great grandmother in his service.

  • Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter.

  • And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brownish yellow; dear guardian; partial vacuum; seeing that; she admitted; she always; she answered; she believed; she did not know; she died; she had; she lay; she looked about her; she may have been; she observed; she seems; she should; she sobbed; she wanted; she wasn; she wouldn; she writes; shedding tears; sheet brass; shell fish; sherry wine