Example sentences of "she have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 Her hair was black and thick and looked tangled , as though she had just got out of bed and not brushed it .
32 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 .
33 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 .
34 Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea .
35 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 .
36 Alyssia smiled back and wondered whether she should pretend that she had somehow ended up at the wrong address .
37 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 .
38 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 .
39 She was calm , her breathing even , she had possibly dozed off at some time , a thought she found quite odd .
40 In fact , so bowled over was she initially that she had actually gone out to dinner with Travis one night .
41 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 …
42 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 .
43 Yes ; she had definitely walked down towards Oxford Street ; of course she had .
44 In the silence of the return journey she had almost slipped back to tranquillity and , oddly enough , it had helped to have him there beside her .
45 She had never gone back to the beach .
46 But the tragedy is she could have known those blessings all through those years , if she had never left if she had never gone down to Moab .
47 Once for something she had never found out about .
48 Admittedly she had never got around to telling him that the invitation was off .
49 Listening to them , Folly realised that she had never got around to asking Luke what he had been doing at Lexy 's flat the night before .
50 Doreen Wranklin could n't understand it as she had always paid up on time .
51 Her mother had stated then that it would probably not be necessary to move again , but she had always shied off from friendships — so many of them had been lost before .
52 But it was a tersely worded compliment , and as he turned to take an olive from the tray of hors-d'oeuvres already laid out on a side-table , her stabbing disappointment told Belinda that he was the person she had really dressed up for today , though what she wanted to prove to him she did n't quite know .
53 It all hurt , but at least she had now got back at him , and she did n't have to see his face to know he was furious .
54 We 've already seen how carefully planned customer flow can encourage the shopper to leave with a loaded basket when she had only popped in for a loaf of bread or a pint of milk .
55 She 's just moved up from Kent and has come with packing cases full of cups and medals : a winning record which was topped this week with the Champion of Champions trophy and an ambition to become the world 's number one .
56 Belushi exudes all the erotic charisma of a frozen carp , Bracco looks and acts as if she 's just signed up with a Dial a Dime Hostess service and there are various large signposts pointing firmly at The Murderer .
57 They 'll probably be in all night and she 's just walked up from the bingo and toddle in there .
58 ‘ There y'ar , Sergeant Joe , ’ beamed Mrs Beavis , ‘ this young lady 's our new lodger , she 's just took the front room , she 's just come over from France .
59 She 's just come out of hospital . ’
60 And if Jane could babysit because her mum ca n't because she 's just come out of hospital .
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