Example sentences of "but she have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had wanted to see her rival — but she had reckoned without the effect Luke would have on her senses . |
| 2 | But she had gone up before him , her narrow back and bunched skirts all that were visible of her from below . |
| 3 | ‘ But she had gone with Dean to a party after a family wedding . |
| 4 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 5 | A woman had been talking to him , but she had gone away . |
| 6 | Apprehension dried Polly 's throat and she could feel her cheeks burning , but she had gone too far to stop now . |
| 7 | Ruth stared down at her , barely able to focus , and then her eyes darted frantically towards Rosa but she had gone into the other room . |
| 8 | Her idea had been rather startling , even silly , but she had wanted to have a black crepe dress and bangles and a tent , and to tell fortunes . |
| 9 | But she had wanted to give it from a position of power , of strength . |
| 10 | She had wanted him safe and sheltered , but she had wanted vengeance , too . |
| 11 | It was unusual for her to have been alone then , but she had asked for time to herself . |
| 12 | His mother , also dead , was really German , but she had called herself Austrian in an impulse of cowardice that Stephen rather cherished her for . |
| 13 | He had said as much to Winifred Shalcross , but she had shaken her head . |
| 14 | Ms Wilikins was unconvinced , but she had accepted the invitation . |
| 15 | Mrs Thatcher might now be widely regarded as an electoral liability ; but she had bounced back before from low opinion poll ratings and by-election reverses to win huge general election victories . |
| 16 | But she had eaten it , and with the delicious taste still lingering on her palate it had seemed ungrateful to cross-question him . |
| 17 | But she had accelerated — away from the beams coming from the back . |
| 18 | His mother had said that it was all very well to mock but she had stood many long hours at auctions all over the city finding the right pieces . |
| 19 | He had alarmed her but she had stood up to him fearlessly and he knew it . |
| 20 | He had taken no precautions during their love-making but she had assured him that she had that under control . |
| 21 | Olga , the brighter of the two , had clamoured to be allowed to go to college in Tollemarche , and both parents had encouraged her in this , hoping she would become a school-teacher ; but she had met Boyd Stych and got married instead . |
| 22 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |
| 23 | She might have been trying to reach our Post for help , but she had crawled under the last parapet , and could go no farther . |
| 24 | This was n't how she had planned it — not that she had really planned anything , but she had pictured herself , cold and ferocious , confronting him , shocking him with the knowledge that he had virtually killed her brother . |
| 25 | Wardens had yelled at her , she had stumbled over rubble and hosepipes , her path lit by the glare of hundreds of fires , she had been terrified by the throbbing of the engines of the bombers overhead and the crump of bombs , but she had run on . |
| 26 | Elisa had been expected to return too and continue her duties but she had decided to stay in Naples . |
| 27 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 28 | He had pleaded with his mother not to make him go to school , but she had insisted , saying that she would pick him up at the end of the day and take him to the hospital , and that he was to ‘ keep busy ’ . |
| 29 | He would have preferred that the children be positioned a greater distance away from them , but she had insisted , particularly in view of Cissie 's broken nights and fits of terror following the fire in Larkhill . |
| 30 | Cameron had wanted to go somewhere else , but she had insisted . |