Example sentences of "[noun sg] she have [verb] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Of all things most precious to her , it was the wedding ring she had received from Nader . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She ran up the stairs and into the bedroom she had shared with Jack . |
| 8 | He called to her when she was half-way up the open stairway to the bedroom she had shared with Francis ; Francis 's bedroom . |
| 9 | She caught her breath , her palms damp just thinking about the powerful surges of emotion she 'd felt in his arms . |
| 10 | How could she explain that she 'd been too frightened of the dammed-up emotion she 'd felt in both her mother and father ? |
| 11 | Through that illusion she had walked with blessed speed , and out beyond it into a world of other possibilities . |
| 12 | The battle was over and the future she had dreamed of lay all about her in hopeless ruins . |
| 13 | PRINCESS Diana has returned the controversial £72,000 Mercedes sports car she has driven for 10 months . |
| 14 | She was in the happiest frame of mind she 'd known in recent times when later that day she returned to her car . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After a long pause , she nodded and the story emerged of a stillbirth she had experienced in her early twenties . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the weeks following the engagement she had grown in confidence and self-assurance , her sense of humour frequently bubbling to the surface . |
| 23 | Another sharp blast of heavy rain threw itself at the windowpanes of her flat , and brought Leith , startled , out of the brown study she had fallen into . |
| 24 | She confessed , too , to the tension she had felt throughout her US tour . |
| 25 | ‘ Is this one of the wines you import , Mr Hepwood ? ’ she asked — and suddenly , as everyone looked a trace amused , any tension she had imagined to be there magically disappeared . |
| 26 | She went to the full-length mirror beside her dressing-table , pulling off the headband she had worn in the bath and releasing the glossy brown hair that tumbled almost to her shoulders . |
| 27 | Both girls thought she was joking at first but when she recounted word for word the interview she had had with Moran they exploded into wild laughter . |
| 28 | This necklace , she said , picking up another , this was the last piece she had bought from him . |
| 29 | Equally personal is Janet Smith 's The World Outside My Window , the first piece she has made since disbanding her company and the first in a long time that she has made to please herself . |
| 30 | When she had been at college she had socialised in plenty and had had her fair share of boyfriends , Ashley reflected , as they drove along , but since then her energies had been single-mindedly channelled into her career . |