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

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1 Totally sheltered as the vitriolic stuff teemed down , I walked swiftly away — on a line provided by Posi , watching me through the ship ceptors that she had temporarily borrowed by means of her call-beam .
2 We knew the weather conditions were calm enough inshore but fresher on the other side of the Channel so the indications were that she had probably crossed from France overnight .
3 Not that she had even thought of complaining .
4 Neither did Liza have any idea that she had also inherited from Tom Tremayne the convenient ability of closing her mind to unpalatable truths .
5 And so , although Laura would have liked to put her university degree to some good use , she had been so madly in love with her husband that she had willingly bowed to his wishes .
6 Now , however , she had leisure to take in her surroundings , and she had a good look at an enormous house that she had barely glanced at before .
7 After reading the article Mrs Marjorie Ellerton of Gunnergate Lane , Marton , contacted the D&S to reveal that she had previously complained to Mr Woodhouse about a mistake in his book on Middlesbrough .
8 It knew that she had not been there before , and that she had somehow appeared amongst them from nowhere .
9 She was not going to fall in love with him , but even as she said this vehemently to herself , Sara was afraid that she had already gone over the precipice she had been conscious of this morning .
10 But as I whirled round I saw that she had already taken off most of her clothes .
11 Abbess Aelfflaed 's question to Cuthbert , bishop of Lindisfarne , as to who would succeed the childless Ecgfrith need not imply that she had otherwise forgotten about Aldfrith 's existence , but rather that she was testing Cuthbert to ascertain that his loyalties lay in the right place .
12 It was possible to think , as she herself points out , that she had merely tripped over a plug or something ; in fact Ann has an artificial leg .
13 It was known at Cadogan 's that she had once fallen from a horse while out hunting and had broken her collarbone , but continued to follow the hounds for the rest of the day until she collapsed as they ran the fox to earth .
14 She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in .
15 Harry tried to shut Mossop 's stumbling remarks out of his head , to concentrate instead on Heather 's words , the last words , in fact , that she had ever spoken to him .
16 On the morning she was expected in the office for the signing ceremony , Stephen Navin , Virgin 's lawyer , telephoned the singer 's lawyers , only to learn that she had actually signed for a larger sum to CBS the day before .
17 Of one thing she was convinced , however , and that was that she had actually regressed to a previous life and that it had not simply been the work of her imagination .
18 I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth .
19 It occurred to him that she had always bathed in private — the door locked against him .
20 There was also , she vaguely noted , in one corner a piano , and the windows had shutters of a kind that she had never seen in England .
21 Yet there was something else there , too — something that she had never seen in him before — and it touched her deeply .
22 It might have been true once — and she was glad now that she had never succumbed to Hugh 's importuning .
23 ‘ Our mother says she does n't know where he puts it all , he 's so thin , ’ Carrie said , and as soon as she had spoken it struck her that she had never talked to them about her mother before .
24 It was strange that she had never thought of him before , for she now remembered how quickly he had learnt poetry when she was helping him learn to read .
25 As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage .
26 Eddie had been dead ten long years , a life so abruptly terminated that she had never come to terms with it .
27 Fran walked with him to the door , wishing that she had never agreed to this in the first place .
28 Not , she admitted truthfully to herself , that she had really wanted to .
29 And she had so perfected this technique of politely disappearing , that she had to live almost half her life before she came to realize that she had almost disappeared to her own self !
30 She was still feeling somewhat shaken an hour later — she was going to Prague — and with Ven ! — when suddenly she realised that she 'd barely moved since that phone call .
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