Example sentences of "[conj] she have [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had known with all her soul that she had made just the right decision . |
| 2 | She said — and I do n't know if she was just bullshitting me , ’ and here Blufton opened his palms in a gesture of frankness , ‘ that she 'd found out the dates when a couple of lorries were due at Dover . |
| 3 | Tempy threw back her head and laughed until she had to wipe away the tears . |
| 4 | Giving in to the inevitable , and until she had found out the truth she had as yet no quarrel with his mother , Ellie relaxed her rigid stance . |
| 5 | She had put an old cardigan over the top , and she 'd rolled up the sleeves and she was shaking that bucket . |
| 6 | Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else . |
| 7 | And she had kept up the pretence in the air-conditioned hotel and on the pool terrace , drinking mint tea to get the feel of the place , though she could n't stand the stuff really , and never knew what to do with the sprigs of mint . |
| 8 | A rat suddenly darted out from a hole in the side of the drum and she had to bite back the scream that rose in her throat . |
| 9 | Just the sight of the stamp had been enough to set her heart beating uneasily and she had to fight down the urge to put off reading the words someone had written to her . |
| 10 | If she 'd had only the clerical level of interface that she was supposed to have , she 'd never have found it . |
| 11 | She talked as if she had taken on the mantle of Philip Marlowe , a female arch sleuth for whom the teeming underworld held no secrets . |
| 12 | By this time he would not have been surprised if she had taken up the lecture and returned him a brief history of the next four centuries . |
| 13 | The shock can have a sudden and lasting effect ; the woman 's energy is no longer channelled into her appearance , and it seems as if she has made up the extra ten years , and more , all at once . |
| 14 | He had died before she 'd finished university , but she had carried out the plans they had made . |
| 15 | She had half expected him to contact her after she had turned away the team of cleaners he 'd sent to her house to clear up the mess , but she had heard nothing . |
| 16 | It was n't perfect , she reflected after she had put down the telephone , but it was n't bad . |
| 17 | After she had put down the phone , Kelly sat deep in thought . |
| 18 | He wished that he could as easily delete the memory of what had followed after she had switched on the overhead light . |
| 19 | Even after she had switched off the small lamp beside the bed , so that the room was completely dark , it was hard to be sure if she was really seeing something , or if her eyes were just playing tricks . |
| 20 | After she 'd made out the application for him she said , ‘ Can you manage if I leave you with it ? ’ |
| 21 | Leonora , expecting to be taken by storm after she 'd flung down the gauntlet , found Penry in no hurry at all . |
| 22 | On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep . |
| 23 | When she had spread out the tea-things , Mrs Syms said : |
| 24 | When she had put down the phone , Sandra leapt out of her seat . |
| 25 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 26 | Then Susan comes in , and when she has put down the tray she is carrying , she turns the light on beside his chair and draws the curtains so that the room becomes a series of pools of light , isolating each of us . |
| 27 | As soon as she had forced down the last of her food , she pushed her plate away and stood up . |
| 28 | That was a pretty daft offer , she thought as soon as she had put down the phone . |