Example sentences of "she have turned [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defoe 's Roxana explains why she has turned down an offer of marriage from a Dutch merchant : ‘ … |
| 2 | She 'd circled the block until she 'd found the side alley where the stage door was located , and then after hiding her bag in a dark spot behind a big wheeled trash hopper she 'd turned around and headed back to the coffee shop . |
| 3 | The client expresses and believes in different , more rational interpretations — ‘ There is no rule which says somebody must love someone else , it would have been great if she 'd turned up but there are other girls I could ask out . |
| 4 | Oh Jesus , Sam , she was everybody 's Aunt Jemima , if she 'd turned up with her hair in a bun and flour on her apron she could n't have made them love her more , Jesus , Sam , we 're not guilty . |
| 5 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
| 6 | To hear him tell it you 'd think they 'd had a date and she 'd turned up late ! |
| 7 | After she 'd turned off , she became tired and nervous . |
| 8 | All of her sweet , loving nature that she 'd turned in on herself , waiting for this one moment in her life , this moment of truth , and it had all been for nothing . |
| 9 | She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily . |
| 10 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
| 11 | The first Sara had known of Adam 's injury was when she had turned up to collect him at the school gate . |
| 12 | She had turned up , been noted as arriving , then forgotten . |
| 13 | About six months after the dinner party she realised that , for the first time in her life , she had turned down a decent journalistic commission in order to start work for a crazy old lady off Ladbroke Grove , whose garden specialised in old roses , and who was insistent about sterilising soil before new plantings . |
| 14 | She had turned down their invitation tonight , partly because she was tired , and partly because she wanted to read the typed hand-outs which had accompanied the day 's lectures . |
| 15 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 16 | In Faye 's first painting , she had turned out so wraithlike and ethereal that she had secretly weighed herself on Faye 's bathroom scales to make sure she still came in at fifty-three kilograms . |
| 17 | She had been in her cottage waiting for the return of Tom and Carrie when a villager ran past shouting news of the fire and she had turned out to help . |
| 18 | Hard to credit that he had once fathered a daughter — and a beautiful girl she had turned out to be — like her granny … |