Example sentences of "earlier she have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grateful customer sent Tina a box of chocolates but only a few days earlier she had vowed not to eat any chocolates because of Lent . |
| 2 | On the way in the train earlier she had pictured her meeting with Penry over and over again , but none of her imaginings had been remotely like the reality . |
| 3 | Earlier she had played Juliet ; and there had been much adulation showered on her by the public and the newspapers . |
| 4 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 5 | Esther was saying , returning to the guest list , recalling scores not settled a quarter of a century ago : ‘ Yes , the very man , he 's a something or other in the DES , he 's a very important chap now , you ought to have a go at him , ’ Liz replied , and as she spoke the doorbell rang , and there was the first guest , on the dot of two minutes past nine o'clock , tall , thin , grey , anxious , clutching a bunch of yellow roses , ex-priest turned analyst Joseph O'Toole , standing stranded on the black and white marble tiles , not knowing where to turn , how to divest himself of his coat , to whom to deliver his roses , a lost man , gazing mildly at the unexpected butler , waiting for the arrival of familiar Liz Headleand , who advanced upon him , took the roses , embraced him , restored him , and led him in to Charles , Alix and Esther : a quarter of an hour earlier she had predicted the time of his arrival accurately , to the minute , and now smiled triumphantly as she effected the introductions , a smile of complicity in which Joseph O'Toole , who was acutely aware of his own punctuality problem , was able with a pleasant relief to share . |
| 6 | Just hours earlier she had set eyes on the pretty two-year-old and sister Anna-Camilla , seven , for the first time . |
| 7 | Earlier she had welcomed Philip Tickner , who had been elected last summer to the vacancy left by Suzannah Hardman . |
| 8 | There was n't the slightest sign that a few hours earlier she had collapsed in paroxysms of tears and seriously considered calling the whole thing off . |
| 9 | Earlier she had listened intently as a statement by Cheshires commanding officer Lt Col Bob Stewart read out at the hearing told how L/Cpl Edwards ' killer had not been traced . |
| 10 | A few weeks earlier she had taken maternity leave from the Champion Spark Plugs factory in Upton . |
| 11 | Earlier she 'd eaten some of the traditional casserole — fried rabbit in red wine — but any appetite she had left was rapidly deserting her . |
| 12 | Earlier she 'd said to herself : ‘ There will be trouble there . |
| 13 | A few years earlier she 'd undergone fertility treatment at the Victoria Hospital in Swindon , and in the light of new research suggesting a possible link between such treatment and premature dementia , her family 's demanding an inquiry . |
| 14 | ‘ Earlier she 'd mentioned the zodiac panelling and Lucia 's secret hiding-place … ’ |
| 15 | Until Margaret 's frantic visit four days earlier she 'd resolved to apply herself assiduously to her job in an attempt to exorcise Marcus Pritchard from her memory entirely , and Denmark had meant nothing to her except as a dark finger of land on a map pointing upwards into the North Sea . |