Example sentences of "[noun sg] she have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , giving in to the grief she 'd always kept bottled up , she buried her face against his shoulder and wept like a baby for the mother she had loved and lost . |
| 2 | At the centre of a triangle of twenty-two cards , within a rectilinear arch constructed from the rest , lay the single card she had consciously chosen to represent herself . |
| 3 | She thought of a tired analogy she had often heard , people in a crowded train compared to sardines in a tin . |
| 4 | Another example of Portia 's dishonesty is shown when she tests Bassanio with the ring she had just given to him . |
| 5 | Before she knew it Daisy was upstairs in the tidiest bedroom she had ever seen . |
| 6 | And if the only deep emotion she had ever seen in him had been on the day of Ben Braithwaite 's engagement to Magda Tannenbaum , then she felt no right and no reason to be astonished at that . |
| 7 | When she sank to the seat she had recently vacated he paced about a little and then swung to face her , his dark eyes angry . |
| 8 | Turning over , she looked up at Damien 's dog-face , and then sat up quickly , trying to repair or disguise the ravages to her appearance caused by the emotional racking she had just endured . |
| 9 | For the first time in her life she realised just how little opposition she had ever had to face — in anything . |
| 10 | However , with youthful if foolish optimism she had proudly assured him that she would find a solution to the problem . |
| 11 | Which one was the real Luke Calder : the hard , tough businessman who would stop at nothing and spare no one to get what he wanted , or that tender stranger she 'd just had a glimpse of ? |
| 12 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 13 | But before the decision had been made Wilson was astonished to receive the speediest reply she had ever had from Ellen and quite the longest . |
| 14 | As far as Nutty was concerned it was the most deadly engagement she had ever contemplated , to be fought unto death . |
| 15 | The trick with the little fingers was the only thing she remembered from a piece she had once written on self-defence courses for women . |
| 16 | He was the best lover she had ever had : the most skilful , the most understanding , the most gentle , the most fierce . |
| 17 | The luxury she had only glimpsed so far was all a far cry from the fading Victorian splendour of St Margaret 's with its peeling paintwork and under-staffed , overworked departments . |
| 18 | Then she poured out in detail the humiliation she had recently suffered , and at last she sighed deeply and said , ‘ You 've caught me at my weakest , but I 'm gradually pulling myself together . ’ |
| 19 | In a single school term she had once sent to private sanatoriums as many as four boys and two girls with a weakness of the lungs . |
| 20 | She had always prided herself on her resoluteness and fortitude but there was one fear she had never managed to conquer — a fear of rats which dated back to an incident when she was three years old . |
| 21 | It was some species of voice-activated flytrap she had never heard of . |
| 22 | The vulnerability she had long felt was the open heart she had tried to close as soon as she looked into those powerful eyes . |
| 23 | Paige glanced up from the rock she had wearily sunk on to . |
| 24 | By the time she gets to the den she 's always got another ready . |
| 25 | The deepest pleasure she had ever known possessed her . |
| 26 | It was a melody she had always loved ; now , in this packed cellar , played by this golden-skinned Dane who both intrigued and irritated her , it took on an even deeper significance , melting her bones , flowing through her , drawing her senses towards the man who had been yesterday 's stranger . |
| 27 | That section of the road , past the pub she 's just mentioned , was rerouted fifteen years ago . ’ |
| 28 | They had sent a telegram to Louise ( Constance could not pluck up the courage to speak to her ) ; Ludovico had telephoned a friend about somewhere for them to stay and they had eaten what to Constance , used to English food , seemed the most delicious lunch she had ever tasted . |
| 29 | He seemed too young and vibrant for work she had previously thought to be the province of uniformed men with starched collars and even stiffer demeanours . |
| 30 | And since they certainly would not pay her for the work she had already done on the trousseau , where else could she go ? |