Example sentences of "[vb infin] that she have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , John said , he would know that she had been arrested because she had forgotten her pass , which all blacks had to carry , and would automatically telephone his father to go and fetch her from prison . |
| 2 | Knox J. held that the defendant was not entitled to rely on a plea of non est factum on the ground that the mother did not know that she had been appointed attorney and that the transaction was a sale within the power of attorney . |
| 3 | He subsequently abandoned the forgery allegation and amended his counterclaim to plead ( i ) non est factum on the grounds that Mrs. Steed did not know that she had been appointed attorney and was not aware that she was signing a transfer of the property ; and ( ii ) that the transaction effected by the transfer was not a sale and was not within the power conferred by the power of attorney . |
| 4 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 5 | Well , now that she was no longer there , he would have to pay attention ; would know that she had been serious . |
| 6 | How could she explain that she 'd been too frightened of the dammed-up emotion she 'd felt in both her mother and father ? |
| 7 | And when she returned he would imagine that he could see the glow of the skin , the satisfied smile of remembered happiness , could almost smell that she had been making love . |
| 8 | Chrissie can not deny that she took the items , but she might well argue that she thought Fred had the authority to let her have them , and unless we can show that she had been told otherwise our prosecution might well fail , especially since the law traditionally recognizes that ‘ perks ’ are a feature of the catering industry . |
| 9 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
| 10 | Catherine sounded suddenly exhausted , and as she gave him back the cup she turned towards him , letting him see that she had been crying , but without looking him in the face . |
| 11 | The two men could see that she had been crying , that she was still extremely distressed . |
| 12 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
| 13 | The bad news was that for some reason our shore watchers had missed her actual departure and could only guess that she had been gone about an hour . |
| 14 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 15 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 16 | ‘ She is unwomanly , ’ Zurachina said , as if she anticipated his objections , ‘ and were it not for her beauty I would wish that she had been born a man . ’ |
| 17 | It must mean that she had been mentioned in the will . |
| 18 | Even in death , some members of the Glencairn family could not forget that she had been a commoner and objected to her burial in the vault . |
| 19 | And she did admit that she had been skipping things , you know , and erm I hoped it would go on alright , that was a couple of months ago . |
| 20 | I needed to have her support , so when people said they did n't like it , I could say that she 'd been happy . |
| 21 | I heard them say that she had been brought to hospital because her belly was still full of urine . ’ |
| 22 | Even now , of course , her mother would deny that she 'd been driven by physical needs — she still insisted on living the lie that hers had been a love-story doomed to disaster . |
| 23 | ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was . |
| 24 | She had projecting teeth and told everyone who would listen that she had been in love with Yorick since she was twelve . |