Example sentences of "she [vb mod] have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assuming Melanie 's aunt did move from Cherry Cottage , she may have left a forwarding address with the new owners . ’ |
| 2 | Her publications list appears to consist of only two papers , but she may have had a greater influence than this suggests ( J. White , personal communication ) . |
| 3 | She may have cried a good deal without understanding why . |
| 4 | She may have put a brave face on it . |
| 5 | She must have made a huge error in giving change somewhere along the line and she felt defeated . |
| 6 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
| 7 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 8 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 9 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 10 | The phrase , which was one she must have used a hundred times to visiting parishioners in ordinary times , took on a poignant inadequacy in the context of the murder of her husband . |
| 11 | We fill grocery cartons with shoes that have the shape of living feet , a bulge on the left where she must have had a swollen joint ; I did not notice it while she was alive . |
| 12 | ‘ No idea — but I gather she must have had a wonky heart . ’ |
| 13 | " She must have had a fanciful imagination , or been delirious . |
| 14 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 15 | But maybe they should n't have — she must have known a better life before this , and what right had they to claim her as their own without having brought her up ? |
| 16 | She should have accepted a comfortable change for the better . |
| 17 | He was about to return the compliment by suggesting that she might have lost a little weight when she leaned across and helped herself to another jam tart . |
| 18 | Mrs Ross ’ s condition had deteriorated ; she had fallen out of bed and it seemed she might have suffered a further stroke . |
| 19 | Walking into a parliament of psychologists , like the governing Council of the British Psychological Society ( BPS ) , she might have had a similar reaction . |
| 20 | She might have had a brief illness best treated outside the home , or it is possible that the balance of her mind was disturbed in some way . |
| 21 | Nenna felt that she could have made a better hand at answering Louise if only Edward had taken the trouble to return her purse . |
| 22 | She always said she could have done a better job running the place than the Director or his boss , Controller Establishment Research and Nuclear . |
| 23 | If only she could have waved a magic wand to turn the fat girl into a raving beauty . |
| 24 | She could have married a fine young fella , he thought bitterly , with a grand house and a slice of West Meath to go with it , but Frank saw him off . |
| 25 | She 'd have liked a nice cup of milky tea . |
| 26 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 27 | It was because she knew that before the month was out she would have said a permanent goodbye to him that she was greedy to spend as much time with him as she could now . |
| 28 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
| 29 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
| 30 | Coffin thought she would have made a marvellous soldier . |