Example sentences of "[noun sg] she have never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was some species of voice-activated flytrap she had never heard of . |
| 4 | No wonder she had never got further than teaching in a one-roomed schoolhouse . |
| 5 | Indeed , a fitter old boy she had never known . |
| 6 | She has been trying to stake a claim which I vow to you on my honour she has never had a right to . |
| 7 | The ugly little terrace house was her husband , her lover and the child she had never conceived . |
| 8 | Would her mother soon be with Patrick , the child she had never ceased to mourn ? |
| 9 | To her , his body had a firmness she had never felt before . |
| 10 | Topaz grieved for Andrew and for Virginia , the girl she had never met , but of whom Timothy had said many kind things . |
| 11 | It was impossible to tell if the plight of a girl she had never met made any impact on her at all . |
| 12 | Inexplicably her thighs felt boneless , her stomach hollow with a longing she 'd never encountered … |
| 13 | She could feel his heartbeat against her breast and it gave her a feeling of longing she had never experienced before . |
| 14 | Later as she lay in that bed , after she had eaten a meal in a small cheap cafe in New Oxford Street , she squirmed between sheets of a kind she had never seen before , purple knitted nylon . |
| 15 | ‘ Foreign ’ just meant that the car was a large luxury saloon of a kind she 'd never seen before . |
| 16 | She knew why he was doing this and she knew too that this was an intimacy she had never permitted before in her life . |
| 17 | A train came in , going to another place she had never heard of , Hanger Lane . |
| 18 | He rolled his eyes and tugged at his collar and blew on his finger-nails ; and then Erika felt a sensation she had never known before ; one that in all her life of order , regimentation , structures , and of love and caring , too , it had never occurred to her that she might have . |
| 19 | Driven by a need she had never felt before , she pressed herself closer , her lips parting in an unconscious invitation , and heard the rough , wildly exciting groan Luke gave before he took her mouth in a kiss that burned with a raw fire . |
| 20 | It has never been the Queen 's style to rant and rave when things have gone wrong — and in truth she has never needed to . |
| 21 | A neighbour who heard the bell , a sound she had never heard in all her fifteen years in the street , puzzled over it for half an hour and then went across the road to the school . |
| 22 | But the clog of sound she had never noticed in hospital was removed , as if a plug of cotton wool had been taken out ; that constant humming buzz of the working building like a machine or a living body around her . |
| 23 | He saw himself , ten years on , a querulous old man complaining in self-pity : What company have my children ever been to me ? — and forgetting that he had sent them so lightly away from him , Blanche across the sea to Heidelberg , to a husband she had never seen ; Philippa , possibly , to remote Denmark ; Thomas , only this Spring , to be titular governor and keep his court in Ireland , and try to make good the wrack and ruin of castles and garrisons there . |
| 24 | Kelly was in a large room she had never seen before , lying alone , naked under a sheet . |
| 25 | To her knowledge she had never led anyone into anything she could n't handle herself , but as he had pointed out before , she could n't always know what sort of reaction she was stirring in those who listened to her songs . |
| 26 | Jay 's hand played a sonata she 'd never seen the score for . |
| 27 | Her hair was hanging almost to her small waist and it was of a colour she had never seen before , not around these quarters anyway . |
| 28 | From the beginning she had never tried to pretend that she was in love , although she was very fond of him , and Fred had told her he was happy that she cared enough for him to become his wife . |
| 29 | Right from the beginning she had never talked like a fifteen-year-old girl . |
| 30 | He was very good-looking , very charming , and had a kind of city slickness she 'd never encountered before . |