Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] she have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , turning , she made way for him to enter , and went immediately to the window seat where she had been sitting wrapped in her duvet when Peter had disturbed her . |
| 2 | FitzAlan glanced over his shoulder , turning fully when he saw the ugly discolouration along her cheekbone and the narrow line of dried blood where she had been cut by a ring . |
| 3 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 4 | He had jolted open a door in her mind that she had been keeping carefully shut . |
| 5 | He boasts in the Tory-backing Daily Mail that she has been proved right in her warnings against the European exchange rate mechanism . |
| 6 | She had n't realized until she was bumping along the road away from the dock that she 'd been shaking like an aspen leaf . |
| 7 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 8 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 9 | Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood . |
| 10 | The fan that she had been waving stopped in mid motion and clicked shut . |
| 11 | Since she had been working more or less at full stretch before she 'd been given the extra work to do , there was only one way she could fit more work into her day , and that was by working late at the office , then going home with a bulging briefcase . |
| 12 | The undeveloped film was found in her handbag after she 'd been shot in an ambush by Islamic fundamentalists , while on holiday in Egypt a month ago . |
| 13 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |
| 14 | It had been no coincidence that she had been called to the phone in the weighing room . |
| 15 | She had , but it had happened the previous afternoon , and Jack had gone with her to Rotherhithe Infirmary where she had been admitted with a broken hip . |
| 16 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 17 | On the positive side , Chris Algar , who described her busy life as a systems engineer in last September 's Medau News has joined the Teachers ' Training Course and at the Step-up and Dance Studio in Leeds Jean Gill made a great impression with an introductory Medau session that she had been invited to reach . |
| 18 | She murmured that Nicola Sharpe had told her editor that she had been given a really good story by someone in the Drugs Squad . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't you know what time — ’ she began , but already , somehow , he had moved past her into the dimly lit office and was standing confidently at her drawing-board , casually eyeing the plan that she had been working on . |
| 20 | Having opened with an 83 , Moodie yesterday returned a 78 in which she was cheered by the news from home that she had been awarded a golf scholarship at the University of Hawaii . |
| 21 | He was inclined to believe her : her anger was a natural reaction to his accusation that she had been prying into data which was not her concern . |
| 22 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 23 | It was Molly , of course , who introduced Medau work in the Special Needs sector and she has been followed by a number of our teachers who all deserve recognition for their work in this field . |
| 24 | This letter had purportedly been written by his wife to him saying that he was not the father of the child and she had been having an affair with a man called Nigel , ’ said Mr Klevan . |
| 25 | Ven swiftly reassured her , and — even while it was dawning on her how he was accepting her ‘ no ’ without question when she had been giving him a ‘ yes , yes , yes ’ for the past five minutes , he was reaching for her wrap . |
| 26 | The shock had been too much for her precarious hold on sanity and she had been removed to Rainhill Asylum in a strait jacket . |
| 27 | Her legs have been bound to prevent further damage and she 's been given pain-killers . |
| 28 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 29 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 30 | I thought for a moment that she had been re-reading " Das Kapital " in her spare time , but I suspect that it was all a charade . |