Example sentences of "[verb] she had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know she had the sauce to pick up my socks and start smoothing down the eiderdown . ’ |
| 2 | And apparently at speech day she was talking to s do you know she had the cheek to say to me she had the cheek to tell somebody to say that I should at least have the decency to go out with someone who 's half looking , half good looking . |
| 3 | She did n't feel she had the strength to face an interruption now . |
| 4 | Sairellen Thackray had always said she had the makings of it , would come to it one day . |
| 5 | I mean she had the door , the front door open ! |
| 6 | It 's not that flu I do n't think , Sam , Sammy Jo started with it , I mean she had the doctor out a week on Saturday , I mean she was ill and Sharon started her Sunday dinner , a week on Sunday , she never had her dinner , Sammy Jo never , er why me and Elliott left some , then on Monday she was really bad and Elliott was |
| 7 | According to our mother , he was so late that she began to suspect she had the hysterical pregnancy of all time . |
| 8 | You remember she had the apartment where Sean and Michael stayed before they took the house at — ‘ |
| 9 | It was something about wishing she had the power to control conversations . |
| 10 | She fell towards them , wishing she had the energy to turn her gaze away from this blankness , but as he moved closer to her a little light caught his cheek and she saw , or thought she saw , tears there , spilling from those dark eyes . |
| 11 | The EC decided she had the same right to benefits as a man or a single woman . |
| 12 | ‘ Apparently Nicola was going round saying she had the backing of top management . ’ |
| 13 | PWL 's managing director David Howells entered the debate on Kylie 's future by insisting she had the qualities to see her endure in the same way pop 's Peter Pan Cliff Richard had . |
| 14 | Walking meant no bus meant she had the money for a cappuccino in the poser 's cafe . |
| 15 | Well , perhaps not kindly , she decided ; it was more along the lines of automatic courtesy , done without thought , and the moment he saw she had the door he moved away , his hand once more at his companion 's elbow . |
| 16 | Maria looked at him in silence for a while , and when she could breathe easily again and felt she had the strength , she rose . |
| 17 | Maggie felt she had the upper hand to some extent and this had to be talked out . |
| 18 | Too much the professional to show that he 'd rattled her composure , she had swung into her act with its usual brand of light-hearted , playful sexiness , switching from vibrant show songs to sweet , soul-stilling ballads with perfect ease , knowing she had the audience in the palm of her hand . |
| 19 | It was ‘ love ’ , now she knew she had the whip hand . |
| 20 | For herself , she wished she could have bought one of the paintings , she knew she had the ideal space for it on one of the walls of her long white sitting room in Kington Square . |
| 21 | He wanted her in vision far more ; he thought she had the kind of personality that viewers would take to . |
| 22 | ‘ She used to share her sweets , but I never thought she had the sense of a hen . ’ |
| 23 | Bedell goes on to say that when a man embarks on one of those humiliation rituals which men behind desks have been perfecting for generations , she wishes she had the guts to introduce a bit of power play and weep gently but composedly . |
| 24 | Paying tribute to Miss Slater , Mr Wakerley said she had the ‘ ability and courage ’ to keep her head realising ‘ quite literally that her life was in his hands . ’ |
| 25 | Ma Madge said she had the real flu because she ached all over and really weak . |
| 26 | I wish she had the answer to that . ’ |
| 27 | The latter was now staring at the Van Gogh boats and the milky sea and sky through poppy-scarlet lenses , which Frederica thought was perverse , although she wished she had the courage to ask for a moment to put them on , to see all this . |
| 28 | But in it , it 's wicked , in that , in that cupboard they 've got two pairs of really good walking boots , when Kay saw them she said it 's not their feet , because you see she had the cubs there right from the beginning |