Example sentences of "[noun sg] she have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the dragon had flighted across the market place of Antioch , and Margaret had found herself swept up between the huge teeth , she had laughed like a child at the brief glance she had had of the panic around her ; she had laughed from the pure unexpectedness of her escape and at the terrified way the mighty Olybrius had nearly swallowed his moustaches . |
| 2 | She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas . |
| 3 | This woman who 'd come to complain about an allegedly dangerous horse she 'd sold her was threatened by stable-hands , and Central News was told that Mrs Burt was at a funeral and unavailable for comment . |
| 4 | But she gripped her hands together to help herself bear the wailing glory of the music which was a lament for all lost and gone , loved things , an expression of a grief she had thought too deep to express . |
| 5 | Good grief she 's got a good memory . |
| 6 | It was as if in that short distance from the Upper East Side she had crossed a magic dividing line into another country . |
| 7 | Every one of the European allies by whose side she had fought against Nazi Germany for the previous two years was now defeated and occupied . |
| 8 | She showed Newman the visiting card she 'd kept . |
| 9 | Feeling restless once her hair was dried , she donned a shirt and a pair of trousers and nipped down to the foyer to post the card she had written to her parents . |
| 10 | The Luncheon Voucher trophy goes to Mrs Cynthia Payne for the card she has sent to , among others , Jean Rook , the First Lady of Fleet Street . |
| 11 | That 's the hundredth stroke she 's taken ! |
| 12 | Of all things most precious to her , it was the wedding ring she had received from Nader . |
| 13 | She felt even worse when she saw Stephen 's girlfriend in church , flourishing the engagement ring she had persuaded him to give her before he left to organise a factory in Newcastle for his firm . |
| 14 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |
| 15 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 16 | She ran up the stairs and into the bedroom she had shared with Jack . |
| 17 | He called to her when she was half-way up the open stairway to the bedroom she had shared with Francis ; Francis 's bedroom . |
| 18 | Snatching an old raincoat from the hallstand she had plunged out into the rain . |
| 19 | She caught her breath , her palms damp just thinking about the powerful surges of emotion she 'd felt in his arms . |
| 20 | How could she explain that she 'd been too frightened of the dammed-up emotion she 'd felt in both her mother and father ? |
| 21 | It was the first show of emotion she had made and it did more to make Wexford believe her story than all the documentary evidence she had furnished him with . |
| 22 | The open-topped Suzuki jeep she 'd hired was easy to drive and the breeze whipping through her hair helped to clear her head . |
| 23 | Through that illusion she had walked with blessed speed , and out beyond it into a world of other possibilities . |
| 24 | The battle was over and the future she had dreamed of lay all about her in hopeless ruins . |
| 25 | The future she 'd visualized was silly , puppies and a row of kennels and being alone . |
| 26 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 27 | Hank could not imagine how she managed to look so elegant in such an outfit ; the concepts of breeding and natural grace were unknown to him , and the quiet air of command she had scared him slightly . |
| 28 | Rain took the seat she had sat in before , in the deepest shadow the room afforded . |
| 29 | PRINCESS Diana has returned the controversial £72,000 Mercedes sports car she has driven for 10 months . |
| 30 | Not even for Christine , whom she 'd found distant and uninterested , as if in her mind she 'd created a better place and preferred to wander there . |