Example sentences of "she [vb mod] have [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may have made a mess of her life ; she may have faced problems beyond your comprehension . |
| 2 | She may have discovered a nest of young rabbits , a delicacy indeed in her terms , had a very good meal and then gone off to sleep within the rabbit 's nest . |
| 3 | She may have killed a rabbit in a spot — a dead-end , for example — where it prevents her escape by blocking the burrow . |
| 4 | She can complete a course double with BAGGRAVE LAD ( 3.15 ) in the Orbital Centre NH Flat race and earlier at Ludlow she may have initiated a treble by winning with her dual bumper winner RUN TO FORM ( 12.30 ) . |
| 5 | I have been told by an old Rochdale colleague of hers that she may have married a doctor and that he thinks she was left a cottage in Tonypandy some time in the mid to late 1960s . |
| 6 | But she i if they say she 's made a payment , she must have made a payment . |
| 7 | He , too , checked with the police and rang back to confirm that Derek had not been arrested and that he felt she must have made a mistake . |
| 8 | She waited a moment for the signal to appear somewhere on the grid , then leaned forward to key the search sequence again , thinking she must have made a mistake . |
| 9 | She must have made a mistake herself . |
| 10 | ‘ She must have liked a book of mine , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I think she must have seen a lot of things at that time which had made her the way she was , seen things in the blackout and in the underground stations . |
| 12 | Well she must have paid a bit off . |
| 13 | She must have taken a knife to push the cord through , she said , there was hardly any room for it . |
| 14 | ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill . |
| 15 | Once they heard her say , ‘ But Harry , you ca n't keep on — ’ And then she must have put a hand over the mouthpiece , because they did not hear anything else until , suddenly , another voice spoke . |
| 16 | From the length of it , she must have had a truck waiting outside the check-out . |
| 17 | She must have had a life apart from what we know about and she 's living it , ’ she concluded , lamely . |
| 18 | She must have had a posting , or else obtained her demob while I was still at Binbrook , because I have a distinct memory of Sheila hammering nails into this crate before despatching it to her new destination , and scornfully refusing all help from J. , who was standing by with the hammer and nails . |
| 19 | Well she must have thought a lot of |
| 20 | I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ? |
| 21 | She should have done a bit more than that actually . |
| 22 | Perhaps she should have had a brother or sister for Tina , though being well into her forties by then and having waited twelve years for Tina to come along made that impossible . |
| 23 | She should have brought a wine jug from the hall , she chided herself as her breathing steadied . |
| 24 | Dalgliesh 's wife had n't wanted to be with her mother , she had wanted to be with him , had wanted it with such intensity that he had wondered afterwards whether she might have felt a premonition . |
| 25 | She touched the stone of the walls as she might have touched a cheek , deliberately and lingeringly . |
| 26 | Her brother Howard said : ‘ We believe she might have suffered a heart attack , despite her age . ’ |
| 27 | The police suspected that it was an inside job and promptly arrested the dismissed worker , for no reason other than that she might have borne a grudge against her erstwhile employer . |
| 28 | you do n't know the full story , she might have had a bit of a |
| 29 | She might have left a cigarette lit . |
| 30 | Joanne often felt that she could have taught a topic to the whole class in a fraction of the time it was taking them to find it out for themselves . |