Example sentences of "she have had a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She has had a nice break and , who knows , if it rains there they can shut the shop ! ’ he added .
2 Once she has had a good rest , her world will put on a fresh complexion . ’
3 A spokeswoman at Hope Hospital in Salford said : ‘ She has had a restless night and is poorly this morning . ’
4 Her GP informed us that she has had a further recurrence of left hemiparesis and , after investigation , the provisional diagnosis is demyelination .
5 Judith is astonished , as she has had a difficult relationship with her mother , whom she feels has little maternal feeling .
6 ‘ If the Queen thinks she has had a bad year , look at me — my whole life has been pretty horribilis , ’ said Olive , from Birmingham .
7 She has had a bad time .
8 A couple of winters ago , caught out on a patch of ice , she 'd had a mild argument with a lamppost , damaging more or less the same spot that had been damaged again today .
9 Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’
10 The five-star novelist gave me an unfathomable glimmer when I closed the car door for her and remarked that she 'd had a long chat with Harry that afternoon on the telephone .
11 Kate , pregnant with her second baby , thought she knew what to expect when it came to giving birth , especially since she 'd had a long labour first time round .
12 He would have enjoyed the odd weekend in Brighton away from the pressures of London life , if only she 'd had a bigger flat .
13 Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time .
14 In the days when it was briefly fashionable to be seen around with black people she had also been known as ‘ Missy ’ , and she 'd had a black lover then .
15 Diane had n't been a stunner , but she 'd had a pleasant face and a more than tolerably decent body .
16 She 'd had a terrible time at the birth .
17 He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories .
18 Tomorrow , when she 'd had a good night 's sleep , she 'd be much better capable of dealing with him .
19 Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’
20 By now she 'd had a good look at him .
21 On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing .
22 She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive .
23 Aunt Alicia was old , she kept telling herself , and she 'd had a full life , and she died in her sleep with no pain , but somehow it did not seem to make it much better .
24 If Mrs Marr knew a bit of human anatomy , for example , if she 'd had a medical training or been a PE teacher something like that , she 'd have a better chance of being competent , by which I mean lethal .
25 She 'd had a 24-hour labour but often said she did n't know what all the fuss was about these days .
26 In fact she 'd had a brief nap on the flight over and the adrenalin was racing round her body , making the possibility of sleep unlikely , but anything was better than sitting like a frightened child beside him , hoping against hope that he would finally melt and utter the sort of words she had once yearned to hear .
27 Twenty four hours before admission she had had a transitional mole removed from her back under local anaesthesia in the outpatient department .
28 She had had a long treatment session , and then decided , possibly over-ambitiously , to visit her brother for tea , walking part of the way .
29 She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) .
30 She had had a gruelling day on top of a gruelling six months .
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