Example sentences of "[subord] she have [vb pp] a [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was such a dear old thing , although she had heard a rumour about him and Sylvia . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Although she had mentioned a man named Clive . |
| 10 | Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Cora-Beth had told him the night before that there were letters and cards awaiting him from England , all of which had ‘ Not To Be Opened Until 5 Jan. ’ on the envelopes , so she had extracted a promise from him to leave them on his bedside table until this morning . |
| 13 | All the child 's socks were dirty so she had turned a pair inside out and put them on her . |
| 14 | Still , I said to myself , so she has got a husband after all , because I was beginning to put two and two together and ask myself a few questions . |
| 15 | Once she 'd taken a room in a village where the bus just happened to stop . |
| 16 | She was bone-weary , but she would be all right , she assured herself , once she 'd had a sit down and something to eat . |
| 17 | Once she had visited a friend who had a room in a house in North London ; she had accompanied her friend into the small back garden , and had been deeply shocked to find that the walls dividing the row of small terraced gardens were only two feet high . |
| 18 | Once she had read a caption under the picture of a royal bride-to-be . |
| 19 | Who to buy it for : Sandra Bernhard ( except she 's got a copy already ) ! |
| 20 | She had her difficulties , too , or she would have been with him by this ; but she was as much the prisoner of circumstances as he , and could not well take ship until she had established a firm and safe regime for her young son . |
| 21 | Sister Ignatia had said that Flora could n't know whether she wanted to come or not until she had had a sniff of the place , seen some of the other girls . |
| 22 | Xanthe sucked each leaf of her artichoke thoroughly , leaving precise teeth marks above the fleshy pad , then laid each one down on a plate in overlapping circles until she 'd formed a rosette , a second artichoke that looked almost untouched . |
| 23 | She was n't going to risk being thrashed again in conversation , not yet , not until she 'd had a chance to recharge her worn batteries . |
| 24 | Cos she 's got a friend over and she 's ignoring me . |
| 25 | Why ca n't she go on a motorbike , just cos she 's got a dress on ? |
| 26 | No , no , Dinda used it cos she 's got a camera with so many gadgets on . |
| 27 | It was n't like she 'd imagined a slave-auction . |
| 28 | There was no denying the fact that she 'd looked terrible , just then.As if she 'd seen a ghost , he thought uneasily . |
| 29 | When he reached for her free hand , clasping it in his own , it was as if she 'd touched a metal surface after walking on a nylon carpet — the shock of contact almost painful in its suddenness . |
| 30 | Azmaveth considered something for a few moments and then nodded to herself , as if she 'd made a decision . |