Example sentences of "[that] she have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 To which she replied that she had been sound asleep , that she had heard a desultory conversation , but its substance had nothing whatever to do with her .
2 She had already been removed to the Intensive Care Unit at the JR2 , but in the bedroom there seemed quite sufficient evidence that she had planned a deliberate departure .
3 She boasted that she had obtained an American wonderdrug called Cancell which could successfully treat these incurable diseases .
4 She already knew from the sour expressions of the French wives among the gathering and the open admiration in the eyes of their sallow , perspiring spouses that she had achieved an outstanding success with her greatest extravagance , a simple couture gown of lilac organza .
5 In August Eileen wrote to Maureen that she had met a marvellous man .
6 She prickled at the implication that she had led a soft and protected life .
7 Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect .
8 The horse made another noise , more a groan than a grunt this time , and , as his stride faltered , Kelly knew that she had made a serious mistake .
9 Davidson , who had previously been married for a total of less than five years to three different wives , said after falling for Tracie that she had made a new man of him .
10 Oh , lord , she inwardly groaned ; if this was Vendelin Gajdusek , then she had a rather unhappy feeling that she had made a terrible start !
11 Despite her defiant words , though , she had the feeling that she had made a bad mistake during these last few minutes .
12 She knew that she had made a fatal mistake .
13 She was much too busy darting glances at Alain and then at Jenna and it was not hard to see that she had detected a certain restraint in the atmosphere .
14 He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa .
15 She was detained because the authorities suspected that she had given a Tibetan nationalist flag to a Buddhist monk from Gyurme monastery .
16 The last thing she wanted , now that she had gained a small advantage , was to blow that advantage by telling him the truth .
17 It was true that she had gained a few customers lately , Dai Jones , Cleg the Coal 's brother being one of them .
18 After the sickening shock of the rapid deterioration of her first childish marriage , she had been so afraid of ever again being engulfed by hatred and violence that she had maintained a resolute pleasantness even through the worst of times , even with Charles , who was not an easy man .
19 Flowers stated that she had had a sporadic sexual relationship with Clinton between 1977 and 1989 , and she had provided the newspaper with a number of taped telephone conversations between herself and Clinton from 1990 to 1992 which appeared to endorse aspects of her claim .
20 She gave this powerful sense of her character 's emotional repression , and the sense was there that she had had a hard life .
21 She sought also to argue that he was in error in failing to decide that she had established a grave risk that they would be exposed to physical or psychological harm or otherwise placed in an intolerable situation if their return were to be ordered .
22 Knowing he was in the right , that she had taken a stupid risk , only made things worse .
23 She had been horrified at the botch Ruth made of it and Ruth had begun to wish that she had taken a few of Hester 's proffered lessons .
24 One of the most colourful figures to testify was a Maryland escrow agent Marilyn Harrell , who revealed that she had used an estimated $5,500,000 in federal funds to buy houses and cars for poor families , to pay off mortgages , and to set up construction companies .
25 She even had room to tell me that she had finished a short novel : ‘ but it suffered from my months of flat-hunting and threatened upheaval … stay in your flat .
26 In it she explained that she had experienced a second climax during lovemaking which took place some five minutes after the first .
27 Rachel bought absurd things , then went back to the villa , and unpacked all her useless purchases , aware that she had bought a ridiculous diamanté choker to cheer herself up , and now felt a fool .
28 He had suspected for a while that Nancy had become tired of Bill Sikes ' brutality and violence , and that she had found a new friend to take his place .
29 Dexter guessed that she had found a new man .
30 Then Kerry began to realise that she had found a strange kind of relief amid the disappointment that knocked her sideways when she first saw Panos .
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