Example sentences of "[noun sg] she have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another example of Portia 's dishonesty is shown when she tests Bassanio with the ring she had just given to him . |
| 2 | And if the only deep emotion she had ever seen in him had been on the day of Ben Braithwaite 's engagement to Magda Tannenbaum , then she felt no right and no reason to be astonished at that . |
| 3 | But before the decision had been made Wilson was astonished to receive the speediest reply she had ever had from Ellen and quite the longest . |
| 4 | The trick with the little fingers was the only thing she remembered from a piece she had once written on self-defence courses for women . |
| 5 | In a single school term she had once sent to private sanatoriums as many as four boys and two girls with a weakness of the lungs . |
| 6 | It was some species of voice-activated flytrap she had never heard of . |
| 7 | He seemed too young and vibrant for work she had previously thought to be the province of uniformed men with starched collars and even stiffer demeanours . |
| 8 | And since they certainly would not pay her for the work she had already done on the trousseau , where else could she go ? |
| 9 | The disapproval she had sometimes sensed from him , and that had bothered her fleetingly from time to time , had erupted into a torrent of burning hatred at the discovery that , in spite of the fortune his father had showered on him , Ryan had died in a state of virtual penury . |
| 10 | For example , Pamela was surprised that her parents were concerned when a boy she had just met at a discotheque brought her home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 11 | He was the best-looking boy she had ever seen in her life . |
| 12 | But what he had left her was the key to untangling the harmony of dancing lights and that let her in to a place which like a child she had always stared at unknowing before . |
| 13 | THAT night Maggie had a dream she had not had for over two years and woke up sweating and anxious , her own cries still ringing in her mind . |
| 14 | So many men answered her ad she had n't replied to all of them yet ; and the dating agency supplied a steady stream of potential partners . |
| 15 | Quickly Lisa jumped in , putting to him a question she had always wondered about . |
| 16 | For the first time in her life she felt radiantly satisfied , as though she had somehow managed to find all the answers to every question she had ever asked about herself . |
| 17 | She felt a rush of excitement and anticipation , and realised that in the preoccupations of the last half hour she had not thought of Giles Carnaby once — definitely a record . |
| 18 | It was , of course , poor thing , out of practice at making decisions of the kind she had just put to it ; it had , Anna considered , been given an easy ride for twenty years . |
| 19 | It was an extension — or so I thought — of the tact she had always shown to me as a child that she did n't impose . |
| 20 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |
| 21 | From under her huge hat and the light grey veil she had thoughtfully donned for the occasion Jane Postlethwaite regarded them steadily . |
| 22 | Of course she had n't screamed like that . |
| 23 | ( 198 ) above , for example , is uttered by a young lady who is recounting to her horrified mother the experience she has just had of being thrown into prison and badly treated after being arrested in a bar brawl . |
| 24 | Ronni also understood now that hurt look she 'd sometimes seen in his eyes during his angry exchanges with Silvia . |
| 25 | Then he turned and went out , leaving Ellie to stare speechlessly at the most money she had ever seen in her life . |
| 26 | His voice was low , easy , the faint accent she 'd barely noticed before more pronounced now , unless it was just that her senses had been heightened by that devastatingly thorough kiss . |
| 27 | Till this moment she had n't looked at the river . |
| 28 | ‘ My home , ’ Felipe de Santis said quietly and Maggie saw , at the head of the valley , the most fabulous place she had ever seen in her life . |
| 29 | A train came in , going to another place she had never heard of , Hanger Lane . |
| 30 | A sensation she had not felt for months — of muted excitement and expectation — went through her . |