Example sentences of "how she have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How she had suffered for him , for her poor pitiable ridiculous father , how she had hated her cruel peers for their relentless mocking , how she had dreaded each Christmas pantomime , each school-leavers ' farewell , each assembly that she knew her father was due to conduct , each occasion on which she heard him open his mouth in public . |
| 2 | One woman described how she had gone back to work after the death of her husband , determined to be brave . |
| 3 | Lamont told how she had gone round the dining room at breakfast handing out brochures about her Foundation . |
| 4 | For example , she described how she had gone about painting ‘ The Shelton with Sunspots ’ ( 1926 ) which was exhibited in 1927 : ‘ I do n't start until I 'm almost entirely clear . |
| 5 | Lady Maude nodded , remarking how she had heard that Sir Ralph was a hard , cruel man . |
| 6 | She was just congratulating herself that Fen need never know how she had weakened when the galley light was flicked on . |
| 7 | That was how she had met Jonas Hamilton , at an antique sale in Martinique . |
| 8 | Afterwards she wondered how she had kept silent , holding her breath , listening to the drumming of her heart . |
| 9 | Ella told me , that evening , of how she had lost her husband in a London blitz , when her house and all her personal possessions had been destroyed by a Nazi bomb . |
| 10 | Maxim had noticed how she had adopted certain American phrases and mannerisms as well , not because she was trying to pass as an American , but just to blend into the background . |
| 11 | She knew how Beth had gone to the lodging house on the night when her own father disowned her ; how she had run to her lover only to be turned away from there broken-hearted when the girl claimed that Tyler was the father of her own mythical child . |
| 12 | How she had missed it . |
| 13 | He knew Katherine Lundy 's reputation in Dublin , knew what she was , knew how she had achieved her reputation there and how she had carved herself a slice of the London underworld . |
| 14 | This was n't going at all how she had hoped . |
| 15 | She remembered with strange clarity the concentration she had put into cutting the flowers ; how she had hoped her father would think she had chosen the right ones . |
| 16 | Once more she saw the attractive man she had noticed in the High Street , and her colour rose as she recalled how she had hoped to meet him some day . |
| 17 | He did n't see any reason to mind it , but he wondered how she had developed such a good instinct for discovering his whereabouts . |
| 18 | Remembering how she had stood on the tower battlements the next morning , watching her knight ride away . |
| 19 | She could never forget how she had swung the boy , a little thing of six or seven ; that nor the heat ; as all the purr of a pussy cat , the linger of her hand . |
| 20 | Jessamy closed her eyes and wondered how she had lived without this sweet physical contact for so long . |
| 21 | Elizabeth , watching , felt an unexpected sympathy for her , remembering how she had felt herself , with baby Alan in her arms and him not even hers . |
| 22 | She had forgotten all her troubles , the long school day — how she had felt , so monstrous , the little children , standing with the tawse . |
| 23 | But long before the narrative fell into place , before I could dress the eleven-year-old of my imagination in the clothing of the 1870s , I knew perfectly well what that child had done , and how she had felt . |
| 24 | Remembering now how she had felt lying on the bed with Harry 's arms around her , his mouth against hers , she felt like crying with frustration . |
| 25 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 26 | All she had left to clutch at was the memory of how she had felt . |
| 27 | Right now she wondered how she had felt capable of raging at him this morning . |
| 28 | She allowed herself the luxury of remembering the way he had looked at her just now , thought about how she had felt . |
| 29 | Sophie frowned , trying to recall just how she had felt while she was gathering information from the lecturers at the veterinary congress . |
| 30 | How she had suffered for him , for her poor pitiable ridiculous father , how she had hated her cruel peers for their relentless mocking , how she had dreaded each Christmas pantomime , each school-leavers ' farewell , each assembly that she knew her father was due to conduct , each occasion on which she heard him open his mouth in public . |