Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [Wh adv] she have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 I guessed why she had brought me round into the shadow .
2 I know he was looking for Nicola at one stage because he asked if I knew where she 'd gone .
3 Ash stopped so suddenly I wondered where she 'd gone for a moment .
4 I wondered where she 'd found one but I said nothing .
5 I knew there were no flies on her but I wondered how she 'd found that out .
6 A video in which a woman recounts how , in her late 30s , she realised how she had blocked out her experience of sexual abuse from her memory .
7 ‘ Why are you here ? ’ she asked when she had finished eating her meal and was sipping from her cup of coffee .
8 For example , she described how she had gone about painting ‘ The Shelton with Sunspots ’ ( 1926 ) which was exhibited in 1927 : ‘ I do n't start until I 'm almost entirely clear .
9 Iris stared with her mouth open as she described how she had found them .
10 Once more she saw the attractive man she had noticed in the High Street , and her colour rose as she recalled how she had hoped to meet him some day .
11 She recalled how she had steadied the block with one hand while pulling at the handle with the other , and how smoothly the blade had slid from its slot .
12 She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash .
13 She had known Sam all her life and though he was a worthy and hard-working man , she knew why she had held back from agreeing to marry him .
14 She knew why she had pulled away from him the night before — because she could n't allow herself to become remotely interested in him .
15 But then her pride and her curiosity had got the better of her again , and she remembered why she had agreed to the meeting in the first place .
16 She remembered how she had looked at Rose in some surprise , and said , ‘ Yes , that would be swell , but I have n't enough money with me to pay for supper . ’
17 She remembered how she had submerged herself in scented water every day and sometimes twice in the sticky summertime and never would again , until she grew up and had a bathroom of her own .
18 It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long .
19 She wondered where she 'd picked it up , and who was missing it .
20 Right now she wondered how she had felt capable of raging at him this morning .
21 Afterwards she wondered how she had kept silent , holding her breath , listening to the drumming of her heart .
22 Now , remembering all this , she wondered how she 'd had the temerity to stand up to him that morning .
23 She explained why she had come .
24 She explained how she had continued her search for the murder weapon that afternoon .
25 He asked when she had stopped crying .
26 He recalled how she had given a great deal of help to the group of residents who in 1981 formed Project ‘ 81 — now the Hampshire Centre for Independent Living — which developed a structure to enable disabled people to leave residential care and live in the community .
27 Marc , naturally assuming the head of the table , frowned when he saw where she had placed herself , but said nothing .
28 And then he knew why she had come .
29 She had her eyes on the figure striding across the hall towards the telephone table , and the look on her face caused him to close his own eyes for a moment , for he knew how she had taken what Martin had said : although it had been voiced lightly it was meant to have serious intent , and in her own mind his marrying would mean once again that she would have notice to quit .
30 ‘ Very , thank you , ’ she said , wondering what his reaction would be if he knew how she had spent the past hour .
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