Example sentences of "[noun] she have [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She looked over at the pile of burned clothing she had shed like a snake 's skin , and shuddered . |
| 3 | As a child she had suffered from a mild case of polio , which left one leg slightly shorter than the other . |
| 4 | Mrs Dibble experienced Lena 's generosity when the ribber attachment she had bought from a mail order company would not work on her machine . |
| 5 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 6 | Travelling all day yesterday , she had subsisted solely on British Rail sandwiches and her supper had consisted only of the cereal and milk she 'd bought at a small general store in the nearest hamlet . |
| 7 | The first couple of times she 'd arrived at a rendezvous and then lost her nerve , backing out before anyone could approach her ; but then she 'd tried getting herself a little drunk beforehand , and from then on the doors were flung open and she was away . |
| 8 | For Kirsty 's sake she had to put on a bright face . |
| 9 | And to Carole 's annoyance , Hyacinth Scragg had not turned up , despite the reminder she had received over a cup of tea at the conference centre . |
| 10 | On the bend of the lower landing she had to struggle past a Centurion lounging against the wall eating from a bag of chips . |
| 11 | Sister Aloysius was wiping the hand now with a piece of rough linen she had taken from a pocket in her habit . |
| 12 | He was the Maurice Charlotte had always known then , the Maurice she had loved as a brother and trusted as a friend . |
| 13 | Lovingly , as if repeating one of the poems she had learnt as a girl , and never forgotten , she crooned to herself the doctor 's words , ‘ Nothing to worry about , Mrs Mallory . |
| 14 | For many years she had worked as a librarian before switching to journalism , training ‘ on-the-job ’ under an American industrial and securities correspondent and as personal assistant to Dan Rather , now CBS 's news anchorman , then becoming a freelance writer . |
| 15 | Over the last seven years she has worked as a manager in the retail industry in Oxford . |
| 16 | Well Lindsey she 's to go to a disco night in in a fortnight 's time all her friends she says are going . |
| 17 | More important than all the pats on the back she 's had as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 18 | In it , she confronted him with evidence she 'd unearthed of a conspiracy against her and accused him of being behind it . |
| 19 | It reminded Jane of one of the Professor Branestawm stories she had read as a child in which the characters were photographs come alive , each repeating , over and over again , the sentence he or she had been saying at the moment the photograph was taken . |
| 20 | The outdated expression , plus his look of youthful enthusiasm , reminded Cassie briefly of stories she had read as a child . |
| 21 | A woman has saved a baby 's life using resuscitation techniques she 'd learned on a course just two weeks earlier . |
| 22 | Diana was flattered , flustered and bewildered by the passion she had aroused in a man twelve years her senior . |
| 23 | But Dexter knew Blanche had benefited from a growing friendship with a woman she had met on a management course at the police college at Bramshill — a former commander in the Met who had taken to lecturing after a heart attack . |
| 24 | It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story . |
| 25 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |
| 26 | In the past she has gone as a pillion passenger on husband Steve 's bike . |
| 27 | Breathless , she slowed to a walk through the lemon groves near the complex , and by the time she reached Monte Samana she had slowed to a snail 's pace . |
| 28 | Like many divorcées , she now viewed the man she had married as a monster of depravity , as capable as Richard III of any dirty deed . |
| 29 | AN ELDERLY spinster with ‘ a heart of gold ’ was battered to death in her home by a man she had minded as a boy , a court was told yesterday . |
| 30 | A day or two before she was due to move she ran into a man she had known as a rather mysterious friend of Simon 's who used to turn up on leave now and again during the war . |