Example sentences of "[pron] she have just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What have they done to you now ? ’ she had mildly enquired , looking up from a photocopy of an article on The Compulsion to Public Prayer : a study of religious neurosis in a post-Christian society which she had just received in her own post , and Charles had said , ‘ Asked us to a New Year 's Eve party . ’ |
| 2 | Rachel swung round indignantly from the filing cabinet which she had just unlocked ready to take out the records for that morning 's surgery . |
| 3 | As she faced out to sea then turned back to face the land through which she had just passed , her eyes were unseeing ; only the past was visible . |
| 4 | Gravel spurted from the heels of her boots as she crawled furiously up the cliff down which she had just slid . |
| 5 | She was obviously in distress , raising herself on all fours , snatching the hair from her face as she looked back in terror at the plaster wall from which she had just come . |
| 6 | For a fleeting moment , she wondered if the woman might have given her deliberately wrong directions but , shrugging the thought away , she started the car and turned back in the direction from which she had just come . |
| 7 | A few months after the service started there was a tragedy when the young daughter of Mr. Whitehead , Headmaster of The Salisbury School ( now Chafyn Grove ) was killed as she ran behind the reversing bus from which she had just alighted . |
| 8 | Laura had agreed while casting a wry glance up at the roof , on which she had just spent many thousands of pounds . |
| 9 | But her own internal stresses — her anxiety over Between the Acts which she had just finished , and the fear that she had lost the power to write — closed in on her as that unmitigable depression , her companion of old , took final hold . |
| 10 | The mirror was veined with gold and misted with the scented steam of the bath from which she 'd just emerged . |
| 11 | Erm , Chairman , w would the spokesman agree that the that the resources argument which she has just used is is completely fallacious and would she rather expect |
| 12 | The family called him when Clare started to complain of chest pains in the late afternoon but he did n't come out ; told them she 'd just strained something ; rest and painkillers . |
| 13 | Apparently he was under the impression that she had arranged to see Richard again tonight ; he was also under the delusion that Richard was a Belgian whom she had just happened to pick up . |
| 14 | And a man to whom she had just thrown down a deliberate challenge . |
| 15 | This was just what Artemis did n't want , some thruster charging up behind Hullabaloo whom she had just got settled , and trying to make a race of it , particularly with the big hedge fast approaching at the bottom of the dip . |
| 16 | Liz came , briefly , with Edgar , whom she had just married : Esther for a night , alone : then a couple of Canadians , who stayed for weeks . |
| 17 | She 's just she she she 's just said on the phone , I was so shocked she got honours . |
| 18 | I can feel it turn , too , as Millie realizes who she has just seen . |
| 19 | The father is the man who she 's just married . ’ |
| 20 | Funnily enough , though , and despite everything she had just said , she did n't want to eat dinner on her own . |
| 21 | It had been a glimpse of Gentle , not so unlike the one she 'd just had , that had propelled her into her near-suicidal affair with him . |
| 22 | Pondering what she had just heard , Wilson went home , wondering if Mr Browning felt the same distrust of Mrs Eckley as she did . |
| 23 | Julia went to sit in the kitchen , trying to stop applying what she had just heard to her own situation . |
| 24 | The servant who passed the story on to the firefighters had been standing nearby taking in all that was being said until a glance from Meredith Putt through the partly open door sent her scuttling upstairs to complete her work , filled with apprehension by what she had just heard . |
| 25 | Rachel stared at her sister in silence , shocked by what she had just heard , not so much by the fact that Paul Mason had been married but because he was as different from David Markham as it was possible for a man to be , and none of them had even suspected what had been happening . |
| 26 | She switched on a desk lamp , and quickly scanned what she had just written , murmuring to herself . |
| 27 | She stood there until the rapturous applause died down and the peacock screen rose from the floor , hiding all behind it , then , her eyes clouded by emotional tears conjured up by the sheer beauty of what she had just witnessed , she turned blindly , colliding with a hard male body . |
| 28 | The Josephs were squabbling about whether Merlyn should have done what she had just done , whether Barbara Coleman had not truly deserved it . |
| 29 | And then it rained ; glorious , refreshing rain , washing away the awfulness of what she had just seen . |
| 30 | Even in the turmoil of his own thoughts , Gazzer found himself registering surprise at what she had just said : ‘ She knows ! ’ he thought . |