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She and had
She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.
She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;
She had helped him change his mind.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.
She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.
She had the feeling that, under the mouldering leaves, there would be the bodies of dead animals, quietly decaying and giving their soil back to the mountain.
She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, depriving her of reason and sight.
She had been snared here by a vile sensuality that writhed around her throat in ever-tightening circles.
She had to escape.
She had to move in some direction -- any direction that would take her away from this evil place.
She wondered what had taken place in town, between him and his wife.
She had spent too many hours looking ahead, hoping and longing to catch even a glimpse of Dan and finding nothing but emptiness.
She had arrived this morning and come straight to the English Gardens.
She had retreated to this world.
She had touched her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual.
She had hated the whole idea before they started.
She had jumped away from his shy touch like a cat confronted by a sidewinder.
She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.
She might have been someone he had once loved.
She began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car in the one spot that most of the crowd had detoured slightly.
She was sitting on the edge of the bed again, back in the same position where the snake had found her.
She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist, of showing her superiority in argument over a man.

She and quality
She compared the results with tape recordings of modern singers and was not unpleased although her own tapes had a peculiar quality about them, not at all unharmonious, merely unique.
She discovered the quality and depth of her feelings in the wordless transitions between what she could say and what she could not say.
She compares the alleged misogyny characteristic of Lewis ' ideal of gender relations to underground male prostitution rings, which allegedly share the quality of men seeking to dominate subjects seen as less likely to take on submissive roles by a patriarchal society, but in both cases doing so as a theatrical mockery of women.
She also is what I consider a classic Indian beauty .... her natural, distinctive Indian looks set her apart from many other heroines ( I say heroines because many have yet to learn to act, and cannot justfully be called actresses yet ), she proves that she does not need blatant blond / red highlights, tons of body paint and makeup, blue contacts, and scraps of clothes to look beautiful ... and that the complete following of Western trends isn ´ t worth sacrificing traditional Indian beauty, grace, and respect for popularity ... a mixture of both that remains respectable ... it ´ s quality rather than quantity ( or lackthereof, in the clothes department ).
She had no peers in passages requiring a sensitive delivery and semi-religious calmness, owing to the moving quality of her velvety tone.
She began a new career in 1963 as a singer and surprised her audiences with the deep, smoky quality of her voice and the many lyrics, which she wrote herself.
She wore robes of the same quality as the queen consort and walked only half a pace behind her.
She discovered the quality and depth of her feelings in the wordless transitions between what she could say and what she could not say.
She employs a food / feasting metaphor and states that her poems are not ripe, but that applause and praise will make them pass as a ‘ general feast ’ to those of vulgar taste who take quantity over quality.
She was unpretentious, shy and devout, and possessed a crystal-clear soprano voice projected with a wistful quality and earnestness that audiences found touching.
She now finds that, due to her age, roles are becoming harder to find and that the quality of roles she is offered is diminishing.
She turned out to possess an aptitude for comedy, with a flair for combining the elegant and the madcap, a quality she displayed in such films as The Awful Truth ( 1937 ) and My Favorite Wife ( 1940 ), both co-starring Cary Grant.
She discusses how mothers are continually making trade-offs between quality and quantity " and weighing the best possible actions for both her and her infant.
She demonstrated her undoubted star quality when she appeared in a 1985 production of the play of the same name, the last ever written by Noël Coward.
She served on the Policy Advisory Board of The Atlanta Project ( TAP ) of The Carter Center, addressing social ills associated with poverty and quality of life citywide.
She objected to its profane language: " I doubt if many people would use 121 bloodies in half-an-hour ", and " Bad language coarsens the whole quality of our life.
She suggested using the television medium's " most engaging traits ", including high production values, sophisticated writing, and quality film and animation, to reach the largest audience possible.
She was a high-spirited child, a quality that earned her the nickname Harry.
She soon discovers that the quality of life in ' Alice ' is an anomaly, and life for a woman in the outback is elsewhere very rugged.
She leaves a discography that is considerable both in quality and in quantity and will be mostly remembered for her Mozart and Richard Strauss operatic portrayals, her two commercial recordings of Strauss's Four Last Songs, and her countless recordings of lieder, especially those of Wolf.
She had a very natural quality to Meg that really made what we did with that character kind of really work.
She has promoted conservation, water recycling, desalination, and sound groundwater management and storage to address Southern California ’ s need for adequate water quality and supply.
She had studied briefly in New York, and the quality of her paintings compares favorably with professional art of the period.
She also described High Speed 2 as a project that would " threaten the quality of our lives – not just now but for generations to come " and stated that she " would defy the party whip-be very, very sure of that ".

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