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

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1 I guessed why she had brought me round into the shadow .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long .
6 She explained why she had come .
7 And then he knew why she had come .
8 He wondered why she had turned against him after cooking him such a nice meal and being so kind to him while Smallfry was away .
9 Like Angela she would not want a poor doctor , and sooner or later would tire of her play-acting and retire back to that world — he wondered why she had left it , and what she thought that she was doing here in the East End , so far from her family and friends .
10 He wondered why she had told him all this .
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