Example sentences of "[noun] that she have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bedroom that she had known for at least ten of her seventeen years . |
| 2 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 3 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 4 | She stood staring after his lithe figure , gripped by the same sense of anguish and loss that she 'd felt in the Piazzale Roma . |
| 5 | It would hardly cross his mind that she had gone past the point of that to something altogether more serious and far less retrievable . |
| 6 | He 's wonderful ! ’ she said and looked at the counsellor like someone confessing to her girlfriend that she has fallen in love . |
| 7 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 8 | It was for Pat that she had put on that dress , those smart shoes . |
| 9 | One woman told Elizabeth Roberts that she had resorted to taking her wedding ring to the pawnbrokers ' three times : ‘ each time I was caught with babies ’ . |
| 10 | When Alison stepped back into the bedroom the slight drop in temperature immediately sought out the damp patches on her back and shoulders that she 'd missed with the towel . |
| 11 | I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the carefully targeted aid that she has given to Zambia in recent years . |
| 12 | She was able to conceal her restlessness , the pacing about , her dream of a different beginning to a new life , her impatience with the old shapes that she had used for too long ; she was not young and was old enough to foresee failure . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm all stiff and sore , ’ Lucy said , and then pulled down the shoulder of the oversized Blues Brothers T-shirt that she 'd bought for sleeping in . |
| 14 | I start from a position of very much respecting the fact that the hon. Member for Gateshead , East was a Member of the European Parliament for 10 years before becoming a Member of this House and I recognise the expertise that she has acquired in this subject . |
| 15 | And she offered him half of the yam that she had brought with her . |
| 16 | His smile was open and friendly , and suddenly it seemed preposterous to be standing here , on a Roman street corner , arguing with a man who had taken her from an existence that she 'd hated to one that was all she 'd ever dreamed of . |
| 17 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 18 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 19 | But Mother Francis had fought like a tiger for that small bundle that she had rescued from the cottage , on the day she was born . |
| 20 | She had borrowed a small tape recorder from Jarvis and was going to record her own playing , a critical exercise that she had postponed from day to day . |
| 21 | Sometimes , in fact , she had felt she was in danger of neglecting the rest of her pupils for though her voice continued to drone on , snapping out an instruction here , a correction there , she was in reality watching Paula out of the corner of her eye , and experiencing the same excitement of discovery that she had felt on the day when Paula had first walked into her office . |
| 22 | But it could be like this perhaps , ’ illustrating her point with some jewel that she had quarried from her years of research in the mines of history . |
| 23 | She was glancing through a newssheet that she had looked through already a dozen times and that in any case told nothing particularly interesting . |
| 24 | Earlier she had , despite Newman 's warning , made a brief call to INCUBUS headquarters , leaving a message for her boss that she 'd left for England . |
| 25 | And these visits managed to reduce her to exactly the same stage of trembling , silent , frustrated anxiety that she had endured throughout her childhood ; she felt , each time , that she had gone back , right back to the start , and that every step forward must be painfully retraced . |
| 26 | She could play the heroine 's scenes from a score of films or recite long passages from the Holy Bible that she had learned as a child . |
| 27 | Rachel relaxed , grateful , and gave her usual careful consideration to the matters before the meeting ; calmly ploughing through the minutiae and bureaucratic red tape of museum management , making the sort of useful contributions that she had made at any such meeting in the last twenty years . |
| 28 | Ellen 's voice was suddenly a harsh scream , so harsh that we both looked towards her and saw that she was threatening both of us with one of Wavebreaker 's heavy-duty fire extinguishers that she had snatched from its rack at the head of the main companionway . |
| 29 | It was this moment that she had come for . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been there , ’ she said , but he rode over that , bent on ignoring his unreasonable jealousy that she had gone with anyone else . |