Example sentences of "[noun] she have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbara was bored with the bob she 'd had for the past four years and was ready for a complete change . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Later we went into the darkness of the Santuario ; there was no one there but the Madonna , who seemed to look down benignly on us as for centuries she had looked on friend and enemy alike . |
| 7 | Maggie turned round to find herself staring into the eyes she 'd stared into in the pub . |
| 8 | Of all things most precious to her , it was the wedding ring she had received from Nader . |
| 9 | She told him to tell Dora she 'd written to Auntie Flo to thank her for the cake . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She ran up the stairs and into the bedroom she had shared with Jack . |
| 12 | He called to her when she was half-way up the open stairway to the bedroom she had shared with Francis ; Francis 's bedroom . |
| 13 | She caught her breath , her palms damp just thinking about the powerful surges of emotion she 'd felt in his arms . |
| 14 | How could she explain that she 'd been too frightened of the dammed-up emotion she 'd felt in both her mother and father ? |
| 15 | Through that illusion she had walked with blessed speed , and out beyond it into a world of other possibilities . |
| 16 | Harriet seemed to have forgotten the grievances she 'd had against him . |
| 17 | The battle was over and the future she had dreamed of lay all about her in hopeless ruins . |
| 18 | Donna remembered with sorrow the number of humiliations she had endured from her in school , and the thought of exposing the contents of the parcel she was carrying to such a merciless judge unnerved her . |
| 19 | PRINCESS Diana has returned the controversial £72,000 Mercedes sports car she has driven for 10 months . |
| 20 | It was just possible that the painkillers she had taken for her shoulder had reacted with the alcohol , but it seemed unlikely . |
| 21 | She was in the happiest frame of mind she 'd known in recent times when later that day she returned to her car . |
| 22 | She tried to tell herself that she had come here today to be cured , to return to the cold world of normality ; but in another part of her mind she had dreamed of this meeting , the apotheosis of the love affair . |
| 23 | After a long pause , she nodded and the story emerged of a stillbirth she had experienced in her early twenties . |
| 24 | ‘ Mother , it 's ten to midnight ! ’ called Sally from the doorway , and Liz , looking around the confusion she had summoned into being , the scattered earth , the scattered people , the murmuring , the singing , the clustering , thought yes , this was a party , yes , this was living rather than not living , this was permitted , this was planned disorder , this was cathartic , this was therapeutic , this was admired misrule . |
| 25 | It had started with fitzAlan battering at the wall of indifference she had erected between herself and the world , and now every little thing seemed to hinder its rebuilding . |
| 26 | ‘ Flick 's made a hit , ’ Gay observed that night , strolling into Breeze 's bedroom clad in the patched pyjamas she had worn at school . |
| 27 | It made her feel slightly sick now ; the satisfying feeling of warmth and lightness she had experienced after the first few glasses had long since disappeared . |
| 28 | Her prodigious roarings and weepings would be licensed in her mind by the examples of St Mary of Oignies ( whose book she had heard in an English translation ) , St Bonaventure , St Elizabeth of Hungary and an unnamed priest she had heard of who wept ‘ so wonderfully that he wetted his vestment ’ . |
| 29 | She asked whether it was the same Capron who was in the photograph she had borrowed from Tatyana Nowak , and who Marek had been to see . |
| 30 | Finally she tried to get down to some more serious work , first skimming through a book about castles she had brought with her , then sketching ruined towers , broken archways and towering keeps . |