Example sentences of "she [vb past] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have a week away , and with Fräulein Silber … even the thought of Omi faded as she thought of it ; after all , it would only be for one week , pushing away the traitorous thought that one week for herself was quite different from a week in Omi 's life , and , treachery giving way to treason , she did have her own life to lead ; and so she said , firmly , ‘ It will be all right , Fräulein . |
| 2 | But she did have the satisfaction that no sooner were the two decisions taken , than the entire Palais de Congress , housing the summit , the media and several thousand attendants and officials , was plunged into darkness by a five-minute power failure . |
| 3 | No , she did not own a car — could not afford to — but she did have a driving licence . |
| 4 | Despite her irritating affectations , she did have a genuine flair for divining quality in both literature and the visual arts . |
| 5 | I do n't know if she 'll have kids , when she 'll have kids , or if your mother would let you have one if she did have kids ! |
| 6 | However , there is one other thing that we know about Elsie for sure : she did have a club foot . |
| 7 | The publication of de Beauvoir 's letters to Sartre has revealed that , contrary to her repeated denials , she did have a number of sexual relationships with women . |
| 8 | For example , you could discover whether the employee 's watch was faulty , or whether she did have a regular hair appointment on Friday . |
| 9 | Whatever else Edna Jacques had , she did have the common touch and her verses seemed to bring a breath of warmth and kindly understanding to thousands of prairie wives who laboured — unwept , unhonoured and unsung — in the deepening trenches of the depression . |
| 10 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |
| 11 | Maybe she did have an honours degree in sociology . |
| 12 | She had never regarded herself as a very organised person , and did n't even consider she had a routine ; but when George retired , realised that she did have a kind of pattern . |
| 13 | But she did have an acute social conscience which Lucie Kaye , a former colleague , describes as ‘ a Quaker mentality ’ . |
| 14 | She was n't going to give her smiles away — not till she 'd fixed her position , and certainly not to an ugly pock-marked thing like Miss Phoebe with her beaky nose and whiskery chin … though she did have nice eyes . |
| 15 | She did have an explanation when I spoke to her , and at that point we were unaware of the prints ourselves . |
| 16 | I could see he thought it was serious , that she did have a case . |
| 17 | And Eve would admit that she did have obligations . |
| 18 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 19 | Only that she must have been holding out on him all these years , that she did have memories which she had covered up or , to give her the benefit of the doubt , conveniently forgotten about . |
| 20 | Going away for just a day before Christmas to visit a friend or relative , just to let Alan Markby and Laura Danby know that she did have someone else , would bolster her morale . |
| 21 | She owed me £1500 but when she did have money , I did n't see any of it . |
| 22 | He judged her worthy of finer clothes , for what she did have on she wore with an air . |
| 23 | Diana , unused to the hurly burly of school life , was quiet and shy although she did have her friend , Alexandra Loyd to keep her company . |
| 24 | Katherine liked to believe that she was n't vindictive , but she did have certain rules , certain standards , both for her house and her business , and one of the reasons she had been so successful both in Dublin and now in London , was because she applied those rules rigorously . |
| 25 | when erm the wo the woman had nagged her husband , the husband killed her and she got le , oh he did n't get let off but he , he got erm I think he walked from the court because the Sheriff said the wife had nagged you for erm he , she did have to be killed ! |
| 26 | Bunny says she 's quite an asset , even if she did have a disturbed schooling . ’ |
| 27 | According to Aubrey , Madeleine was still unattached , even if she did have that army officer dancing attendance on her . |
| 28 | Ma is thin and she 's not all that strong , but she did have a go , persevering even after it mowed down most of her prize herb bed . |
| 29 | She wished she could lay claim to a migraine but knew that Betty would not let her , that anyway even she could not be so mannerless as to absent herself from her own picnic , and that even if she did have a blinding migraine she would still have to go . |
| 30 | It was true : she did have a reputation for good housekeeping . |