Example sentences of "[conj] she have [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | She mentioned a conference at Lancaster University , where she 'd given a talk called ‘ Bringing Spirituality into Organizations ’ . |
2 | Jay gripped , burrowed her head in Lucy 's belly : here so safe and wanted inside her beloved Jeremy had grown ; her brow nudged Lucy 's breasts , where Jeremy had sucked himself full and strong , where she had found a contentment warm as summer wind across white sands ; here she had swum easy as a seal , crystal seas halcyon over her head . |
3 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
4 | that at the time of the loss or damage he or she had taken a room at the inn ; and |
5 | More commonly , the minister under attack is shielded by collective responsibility and the decision as to whether he or she goes or stays is one for the Prime Minister , based on the criteria of the extent to which he or she has become a liability to the government . |
6 | Every time the parent has witnessed the PB or CB , he or she has entered a tally mark in the appropriate space . |
7 | Although she 'd seen a couple of nice men recently , when it came to the heavy breathing Miranda found that she did n't want to be touched intimately by anyone she did n't know well . |
8 | However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June . |
9 | Although she had become a native of the boats , and pitied the tideless and ratless life of the Chelsea inhabitants , she respected the water and knew that one could die within sight of the Embankment . |
10 | He was such a dear old thing , although she had heard a rumour about him and Sylvia . |
11 | Fortunately , she was a feminist and seldom asked for extra money , since she would consider that degrading , although she had accepted a house and school fees . |
12 | Although she had mentioned a man named Clive . |
13 | Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . |
14 | cos bread goes , although she 's got a freezer and a washing machine and everything at the villa , so she 's , she sold her house in Jersey and they 're gon na do the villa up because they , they 've sold it Christmas did n't they ? |
15 | Penelope wished now that she had worn a dress or suit instead of the elegant tartan trews , but they had seemed the only way to make Rupert Stonebird notice her . |
16 | ‘ Would n't it be lovely if Terry was one of them ? ’ a colleague said , but Sarah said quietly that she had received a letter from him and knew when he would arrive . |
17 | Kit hugged herself with pleasure at the thought that she had raised a son who would be an engineer . |
18 | Down on the steps , Marie had decided that she had made a mistake . |
19 | She was beginning to feel that she had made a mistake , and allowed herself to be exploited . |
20 | I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too . |
21 | She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning . |
22 | A girl lunged over the grid , screaming that she had made a mistake , fingers just missing the disappearing chips . |
23 | But Albert was so sure that she had made a Will … |
24 | And , although she was rapidly coming to the conclusion that she had made a fool of herself all down the line , she still did n't quite know how . |
25 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
26 | No doubt he exaggerated ( such was his wont where his conscience was concerned ) ; yet the only news she had received from Em herself had not been happy ; and now — to learn that she had suffered a miscarriage in that desert place at such a time of year , and that she had not felt able to share the grief of it with her own affectionate sister … |
27 | Though occasionally , like now , Betty 's family commitments — she had a husband and a three-year-old son — meant that she had to cancel a date . |
28 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | It left her so weak that she had to put a hand out to the table before she could sit down . |