Example sentences of "[conj] she have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind . |
| 32 | It left her so weak that she had to put a hand out to the table before she could sit down . |
| 33 | These words are well past her point of failure in the Schonell Test ( that is , ten consecutive errors ) , and so it is possible that she had reached a level of frustration : feeling that all the words were too difficult she ceased to think carefully about whether what she was writing down was likely , and simply put down anything that came to mind . |
| 34 | It was true that she had missed a period , but that could mean anything or nothing . |
| 35 | It seemed that she had had a row with her man and that he had left . |
| 36 | June Rogers reported that she had had a meeting with parents interested in improving the play area at the Sun Hill recreation ground . |
| 37 | In a £500,000 damages action at the Court of Session , she had said that she had had a collapse after being injected with anaesthetic drugs in the operating theatre . |
| 38 | She had been studying for her A levels however when , after discovering that she had smuggled a pining and off-his-food spaniel up to her bedroom to sleep one night , her father had put some of her own recent doubts into words . |
| 39 | The room was very dim , he saw that she had suspended a shawl over the light , so that it shone dappled on walls and ceiling above . |
| 40 | Surely she had n't gone out again , forgetting that she had left a friend waiting on the telephone ? |
| 41 | ‘ She told me , thank God , that she had to stuff a handkerchief in her mouth to stop laughing too loudly . ’ |
| 42 | Now she had to let her husband know , oh-so-artlessly , that she had set a guard on Marion that he could n't break without scandal . |
| 43 | The first thing we talked about was how wearing the camisole top had made her feel self-conscious , and how glad she was that she had put a shirt over it . |
| 44 | Jackman has played Martin twice in the last eight months and lost both times , but Jackman was buoyed by the fact that she had taken a game off her on each occasion . |
| 45 | This story did not impress the court who took the view that she had used a knife to cut off the head soon after its birth , and eventually she had to admit the truth . |
| 46 | In the morning we discovered that she had caught a fever , as a result of getting wet . |
| 47 | Despite her earlier fears , she proved to be an excellent subject , probably due in part to her desperation to be helped and partly to the fact that she had spent a week practising the relaxation technique and listening to my voice on cassette , so that she was comfortable with both . |
| 48 | She could n't remember the last time that she 'd invited a man into her home , and now it made her feel uneasy to watch Luke Calder inspecting all these snippets of her life . |
| 49 | But when I drove to London to collect her as we 'd arranged , I found that she 'd had a phone call less than an hour previously to say that Barney was ill . |
| 50 | Yeah er attractive , anyway what was I saying , I was talking to her and she said that she 'd had a talk with Foxy and Foxy had said excuse me , and I just felt I just felt so paranoid because she was saying , talking about all the , how he 'd never been faithful to anyone and how , and I really did feel , would n't you feel awful if everyone was saying oh Sal , yeah , Sal , Sal 's making a real effort but but no she said |
| 51 | She retains a liveliness of mind which is quite extraordinary under the circumstances and she still displays a keen sense of humour and a warmth of contact despite the fact that she has to use a machine . |
| 52 | ‘ You must tell your friend , ’ continued the lady , ‘ that she has made a mistake . |
| 53 | At times the loneliness of her position has brought her to the edge of despair , so much so that she has made a number of suicide attempts , some more half-hearted than others . |
| 54 | If you find it difficult to understand some of the feelings she expresses , you have to realise that she has reached a stage in life 's journey of which , as yet , you know nothing at all , and until you stand where she is standing now you are in no position to pass any judgement on her attitudes . |
| 55 | Evert also revealed that she has added a week of exhibition matches against Martina Navratilova to her schedule , which will be played in Asia , in April . |
| 56 | I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ . |
| 57 | The 18-year-old from Dinas Powys , currently Britain 's best young player , learned this week that she has won a place at St Hilda 's College for September 1991 to study physiology and psychology . |
| 58 | But never imagine for a moment that she has abandoned a lifetime of hard-won apostasy and now rejoices in the mating rituals of her long-lost tribe . |
| 59 | But I hope he 'll be able to make her understand that she ca n't ever have me , and that she has to make a life for herself away from me . ’ |
| 60 | As the corporals head for lunch they pass a recruit from the TA platoon shepherding her visitors toward the museum , Where she is convinced that she has found a photograph of her mother , Who served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945 . |