Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She admitted she had come from London to gain recruits for the Communist Party , but denied any attempt to stir up strife . |
| 2 | Robbie had expected the dog to pursue them , but instead there was a splash and she realised he had gone into the water . |
| 3 | Then she asked what had happened to Alec , because nobody had told her , and I just looked at a spot about a foot above her head and let Frank do the dirty work . |
| 4 | However , Lilian Peters , seeing how hurt Mrs Miller was , said that she thought that it was a good idea and after suggesting that a weekly gathering of the evacuated mothers and their infants would also be an excellent idea , Mrs Miller sat down beaming , because she believed she had thought of it herself . |
| 5 | ‘ I can see it upsets you , ’ he said softly , and she was afraid to look at him , afraid to see again what she imagined she 'd seen in his eyes . |
| 6 | As he passed quickly in front of the flame , Tallis got the hint of scratches on his body , and she imagined he had run through the tight thorn scrub between the village and his purloined domain upon the hill . |
| 7 | Then she discovered he 'd gone off any idea of tucking into the delights of her home-made lasagne anyway as , without another word , he turned and headed out of the kitchen . |
| 8 | His mother , from Newquay , Cornwall , was incensed when she heard what had happened in a letter written home by her son . |
| 9 | She thought they had started from different points , although she had wanted to marry him after only a few meetings because he ‘ felt good to be with ’ . |
| 10 | She was listening for a new noise , the noise she thought she 'd heard on the way out to Chateaubriand : the irregular tapping of the axis lock crystal , jumping in its housing . |
| 11 | Penny says a close friend recently asked her to sum up what she thought she 'd done for the Princess of Wales . |
| 12 | One of the girls in the company , ever such a nice little thing she was , she thought she 'd got into trouble ; well , I could 've told her she would , the way she was going on — actors — you would n't believe ! |
| 13 | She had to walk all the way to Clerkenwell with a canvas bag containing all her belongings , and her feet dragged as she grew more reluctant every minute to face the destitution she thought she had left behind for ever . |
| 14 | Though she told her husband ‘ shrewdly and shortly ’ that she thought she had married beneath her , he proved on the whole a sympathetic and supportive husband in what can not by any standards have been a normal or comfortable married life . |
| 15 | I also had a feeling that my mother would never forgive me if she thought I had admitted to fornication and worse to a person who came to her house and drank her sherry . |
| 16 | She was part Mulholland on her mother 's side and she knew we had fallen from the middle class or , to be precise , that her mother had married down , even though she loved her father . |
| 17 | She knew she had ridden from the woods , screaming her grief … but she felt no grief , only a terrible inevitability , only cold acceptance . |
| 18 | About what Margrida d'Arcos 's opinion of her might be now that she knew she had indulged in apparently frivolous love with her son . |
| 19 | She knew he 'd worked for Bonanza , and the chances were that in her nervous condition she would n't question his appearance . |
| 20 | She knew he had gone to Mrs Lorimer 's funeral and that he would be unhappy ; Letitia was a good sister . |
| 21 | Since she died I have tried without success to get this letter . |
| 22 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
| 23 | Outside the windows all was darkness and she understood they had stopped in the tunnel . |
| 24 | WHEN Stephanie Cole went to the read-through of the BBC2 film Memento Mori , there were so many famous names present that she felt she 'd stumbled into Who 's Who in the Theatre . |
| 25 | As Creggan and Kraal continued to tell their dearest memories , night began to fall and Minch began to plan out what she would do in the limited time she felt she had left to her . |
| 26 | The days when Miss Logan 's fluent Italian had been of use to them were long past ; having begun the journey as guide and interpreter , she felt she had dwindled into a mere hanger-on , with little greater status than the discarded dragoman or the newly-appointed Kurd . |
| 27 | And then she remembered what had happened to Alice and he did n't seem nice any more , just big and handsome and rather frightening , standing there in his tight jeans and his bright shirt , looking at her . |
| 28 | Guiltily she wished she 'd admitted to her previous engagement . |
| 29 | Still she wished someone had written to her . |
| 30 | She said she had disapproved of their reliance on French rather than Iranian products and people . |