Example sentences of "she have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had not sat down to breakfast , preferring to eat a handful of dry Puffkins while she sought her shoes , nor did she utter any words of affectionate farewell , not being one for dissimulation . |
| 32 | A feeling she had not known in over a decade slipped through her body . |
| 33 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 34 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 35 | Annabel had talked so much to her parents about the beautiful girl with the long golden hair , and how she had openly stood up to Sister Mary , that it was decided to invite this child to have tea with the family . |
| 36 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 37 | Although the PM had only recently arrived in Downing Street , she had already boned up on its history and as she led us round she spoke of Pitt and Walpole , Disraeli and Gladstone , and of their connection with this tapestry or picture or that room . |
| 38 | She had already fallen out with Sutton , who regarded computers with unconcealed loathing . |
| 39 | One day Mary asked her father for money for a pop concert which she had already booked up with a friend without consulting him . |
| 40 | But Main Line , an independent filmmaker , contended that it had reached an oral agreement with Basinger , a standard Hollywood handshake deal , and that she had later backed out of it . |
| 41 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 42 | She came to a point where she could see far over the town , she had instinctively gone up following the fleeing daylight , and the mist over there under a sky that was greyish and purplish and darkening again , became apparent because it was being lit up from those distant buildings and streets , the points of light vibrating through the moisture . |
| 43 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 44 | Lucy Lane arrived : in a green frock figured in black , dark hair expertly set , a shoulder bag matching her frock ; she looked as though she had just stepped out of her BMW runabout for a spot of window shopping . |
| 45 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 46 | She corrected this idea by always wearing a hat , as though she had just looked in on her way to the garden . |
| 47 | Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry . |
| 48 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
| 49 | Her hair was black and thick and looked tangled , as though she had just got out of bed and not brushed it . |
| 50 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 51 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 52 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 53 | She had just started out on her career as a free-lance photographer , with nothing but a little talent , a lot of determination and the best camera money could buy to help her make it . |
| 54 | Alyssia smiled back and wondered whether she should pretend that she had somehow ended up at the wrong address . |
| 55 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 56 | She had deliberately kept out of his way until now , leaving the task of showing him upstairs to his godmother 's room to Mrs Diggory . |
| 57 | She was calm , her breathing even , she had possibly dozed off at some time , a thought she found quite odd . |
| 58 | In fact , so bowled over was she initially that she had actually gone out to dinner with Travis one night . |
| 59 | In one blinding flash then , she had realised how much she had actually given up for Paul in a futile attempt to avert his jealous outbursts — friends , family , social life , even smiling … |
| 60 | The Customs men had believed she was a drug-smuggler ; Nathan had assumed she had virtually jumped out of Giles 's bed and into Clive 's . |