Example sentences of "she had [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now all she had to do was fool Felipe de Santis and go against all her principles . |
| 2 | Eventually she agreed with me that no harm could come from using regression therapy , particularly when I assured her that , should she change her mind at any point , all she had to do was open her eyes and the session would automatically come to an end . |
| 3 | What she had seen was indecent and terrifying , and she could tell her fear to nobody . |
| 4 | Now the patch she had stirred was darker grey . |
| 5 | She seems a bit spiteful and not very bright but what she had to say was factual . ’ |
| 6 | But what she had to remember was that , however convincing he might sound on details , there was a hard core of fact that even Luke Hunter could never explain away . |
| 7 | To that extent , what she had done was understandable . |
| 8 | Shelley did n't touch the wine , but stuck to the iced water , in between delicious mouthfuls of the fish , which she had to admit was absolute perfection , the best she had ever tasted . |
| 9 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 10 | To sum up , if examples such as those in ( 28 ) and that in ( 29 ) are all ungrammatical , as we can readily agree , it is for different reasons : ( 28 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere ( 29 ) the man is very The adjectives in ( 28 ) lead to incoherence because , as already observed , they are specialized to qualify a property , and so they are incoherent in the predicative construction , which assigns the adjective property to the entity of the subject , not to its sense . |
| 11 | She murmured in protest as the gentle touch turned into a force that raised emotions she had thought were impossible in any dream . |
| 12 | As the years progressed and the girls grew from babyhood to childhood and on into girlhood and womanhood , Bertha Cohen could not prevent her early hopes from first wilting and then withering : what she had got were two daughters who were replicas , not of herself , but of her husband . |