Example sentences of "[Wh det] she have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Betty noticed however that Lydia contrived to carry nothing but a bottle of cider which she had clearly earmarked for herself . |
| 2 | Perhaps my mother had received another anonymous letter which she had successfully concealed from me ? |
| 3 | Sharpe had taken a royal fortune off the battlefield , and it was that fortune which Jane had stolen from him , and much of which she had already spent on a London house and on silks and on furniture and on jewels and on Lord John 's debts , and on silverware and gold plate and Chinese wallpaper and on lapdogs and satin and on the cabriolet in which Lord John now rode towards the cavalry and battle . |
| 4 | She had never seen either him , or Miss Mates , take a drop of alcohol before in the weeks which she had already spent in Vetch Street . |
| 5 | When she had aimed the bottle at Gazzer 's head , years of pent-up hurt and frustration had spilled over into violence : violence which she had previously directed against herself or had lived through only in her mind . |
| 6 | ‘ What have they done to you now ? ’ she had mildly enquired , looking up from a photocopy of an article on The Compulsion to Public Prayer : a study of religious neurosis in a post-Christian society which she had just received in her own post , and Charles had said , ‘ Asked us to a New Year 's Eve party . ’ |
| 7 | She had begun to pull on the long suede gloves which she had earlier stripped from her beautiful hands . |
| 8 | On impulse Sally-Anne went to the kitchen and picked up a jam jar which she had earlier filled with sweet peas brought by a grateful patient who owned a little garden . |
| 9 | She had never held a baby before that was not a fat , well-dressed , sweet-smelling thing , but not one of them had ever given her the strange sense of fulfilment which the pitiful scrap of humanity in her arms , wrapped in the square which she had earlier scissored from her petticoat , did . |
| 10 | She ached inside , a sensation that had once been very familiar , but which she had deliberately suppressed over the last four years until she had almost forgotten what it had felt like . |
| 11 | Joshua took from his hip-pocket a flask — a birthday present from Felicity , which she had sensibly filled with Mure , a blackberry liqueur , the addition of which rendered any cheap white wine , fizzy or not , instantly palatable . |
| 12 | She had seen people die , she had seen them give birth , she had chopped them into little pieces : more significantly , with Charles she had achieved orgasm , which she had never managed with Edgar . |
| 13 | It was out : the heavy weight of guilt , which she had never confided in anyone before , was out in the open . |
| 14 | ‘ 'The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice , self-contempt , abasement , submissiveness , meekness — ’ she read aloud from the early works of Marx , which she had never returned to the library , property being theft , and knowledge free for everyone . |
| 15 | But then she had been thirty , and then thirty-three , and the panic that overtakes women of that age , even in the nineteen seventies , had come upon her , and the desire to have a child , which she had hardly thought about before . |
| 16 | During her time at Brentwoods , although she had never actually gone to a cinema with another man , she had often entertained or been entertained by members of the opposite sex , usually at lunchtime , occasions which she had afterwards described in detail to Brian , much to his amusement . |
| 17 | With a hopeless shrug of resignation she hurriedly put on a slim linen dress , which she had only thrown into her case at the last minute . |
| 18 | The reading had fully revealed a fact which she had dimly apprehended before but lacked the courage to confront until she saw it reflected in the mirror of the spread . |
| 19 | She was more bothered than ever , for Timothy 's eyes had a dreamy look which she 'd never seen in them before , and he 'd lingered over the girl 's name whenever he had used it . |
| 20 | The mother , notwithstanding what she had previously said about not taking the child out of the jurisdiction without an order of the court , nevertheless left Ontario for England on the very next day , 3 July 1991 . |
| 21 | But the worst of all was to read what she had finally written on the night before the bazaar , the night before he had added himself to the list of those who had betrayed her — It was the worst hurt of his life . |
| 22 | Was n't this what she had secretly hoped for ? |
| 23 | Julia went to sit in the kitchen , trying to stop applying what she had just heard to her own situation . |
| 24 | She had put them on without thinking , because they were what she had always worn for travelling outside London , but she began to wonder what David 's mother would think of them and to wish that she had put on her good black coat and skirt instead with one of her London hats . |
| 25 | She knew how to win that competition , too : when he reached through to her the fourth or fifth time , she did what she had often dreamt of doing before : kneeling up against the wall , she guided his hand and put it to her breast . |
| 26 | ‘ Classy , ’ she muttered , thinking that , while she rebelled against his firm being involved , villas were what she had originally hoped for . |
| 27 | He knew that the embers of whatever she had once felt for her fiancé still glowed . |