Example sentences of "[conj] she have [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of them knew that she had been with the FBI for two years , where she had specialized in the use of firearms , before joining UNACO three years ago . |
| 2 | The type of household in which the elderly person lives may , in its turn , be a function of the stage he or she has reached in the life course rather than of age per se . |
| 3 | This " field research " is commonplace and is simply the sufferer testing whether what he or she has learnt in treatment is really true in the outside world . |
| 4 | He or she has worked in Britain for 44 years before retirement . |
| 5 | Although she has lived in England for 17 years she only married her husband , Qi Can Huang , three years ago . |
| 6 | She replied that she had lived in a small group of about 10 people : she indicated the number by holding up both hands with the fingers spread . |
| 7 | It seemed to her now that she had lived in a dream . |
| 8 | She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised . |
| 9 | Elizabeth reported that she had heard in such a place : ‘ Long time , no see , old boy , what 's your poison ? ’ |
| 10 | Dr Marshall , who as a vegan eats no animal products , agreed that she had eaten in her room , but said that she did no cooking . |
| 11 | She noticed the eight-pointed-compass shape in the stained-glass window , beneath which Marc was standing , that she had observed in mosaic on the floor of the entrance hall . |
| 12 | The chair was slipping , although its first speed had been checked by the fact that she had fallen in front of the wheels . |
| 13 | It seems that she had fallen in love with him but she " did n't know where I was at all " with him ; he would be most affectionate towards her and then , for no apparent reason , seemed to avoid her for protracted periods . |
| 14 | After Flavia had stated , baldly , that she had fallen in love with someone , Therese gave her a look . |
| 15 | Eventually she told him that she had fallen in love with a man who was already married and her conscience was greatly troubled . |
| 16 | But Shelley admitted that she had fallen in love with his music , which made it easier to like everything else Spanish . |
| 17 | The panel ruled that she had engaged in ‘ sub-standard care ’ . |
| 18 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |
| 19 | But she looked down through the glass skylight and recognised in Maggie 's cropped hair and long white body the same contours that she had seen in that other virgin warrior whom she had inspired into battle . |
| 20 | She later confessed that she had seen in him not a budding genius , but only a ‘ little man ’ . |
| 21 | It went pop , and Signe leaned forward into the candlelight so that all the customers could see her , and sipped at the champagne and narrowed her eyes at me in a gesture of passion that she had seen in some bad film . |
| 22 | The recurring line of Sybil 's poem came back to Melissa 's mind , the poem about dead flowers that she had written in memory of a beautiful girl , savagely cut down . |
| 23 | Hewas so considerate when she lost the baby a year later , overlooking that she had failed in giving him what the nurse reluctantly told her would have been a son . |
| 24 | And after his death it seemed to her that she had walked in darkness like an automaton through a deep and narrow canyon of grief in which all her energies , all her physical strength , had been husbanded to get through each day . |
| 25 | She replied : ‘ Yes thank you , ’ although some reporters said that she had spoken in a ‘ soulful way ’ and appeared quite miserable . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course you do , ’ Alyssia replied , feeling slightly better now that she had succeeded in explaining away some of the astrologer 's words . |
| 27 | ‘ What do you want ? ’ she asked mutinously , deliriously thankful that she had succeeded in not succumbing to the urge to blub her eyes out when she had dashed out of the living-room . |
| 28 | They swore that they had turned her down at first , but that she had behaved in such a bold manner — sitting on their laps , kissing them and fingering her body — that they could not hold back any longer . |
| 29 | She was still wearing the thin cotton dress that she 'd worn in the prison hospital , but now there was a shawl around her shoulders as well . |
| 30 | She stood staring after his lithe figure , gripped by the same sense of anguish and loss that she 'd felt in the Piazzale Roma . |