Example sentences of "have [verb] she [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 'd mutilated her to the point of death but — being a Buddhist — he had n't killed her . |
| 32 | Her mother and father had had to help her down the steps and into the car . |
| 33 | Miss Poraway had at once become tearful and Lavinia had had to take her to the kitchen . |
| 34 | He must have heard her at the door . |
| 35 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 36 | Presumably another girl from the company , thought Lefevre , although he could not recall having noticed her during the performance . |
| 37 | We 'd have seen her at the window long ago , and got her down . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ He would have seen her at the races , ’ I said , smiling . |
| 39 | But who could have seen her in the park and reported back this quickly ? |
| 40 | She had a view through the windscreen but no one could have seen her in the back . |
| 41 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 42 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 43 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 44 | ‘ If she knew about the book , he may have told her about the contents , too . ’ |
| 45 | He could have told her about the IRA kidnapping him , but that would have alarmed her and the whole household . |
| 46 | Having got her into the line the girl glanced at her and whispered , ‘ What 's your name ? ’ |
| 47 | He reached for his cup , and there was Julian with the flagon lifted , ready to refill both his and Hotspur 's , so silently and impassively that they might almost have dreamed her into the fringes of their conference , but for the fourth cup which had appeared beside theirs , and which she was also filling to the brim . |
| 48 | A good American would have had her in the kitchen with a flue-brush , or making pastry , by now . |
| 49 | We might have got her at the ferry . ’ |
| 50 | And Jonathan would never have recognised her as the girl to whom he had become engaged , the easygoing girl whose only concern had been to have a good time , however much money it took . |
| 51 | Her friends back in London would never have recognised her as the Alyssia Stanley who had dozens of men trailing behind her , and who toyed with them but only for as long as it suited her . |
| 52 | But Steve would have hit her with the truth — not intentionally , he was n't cruel by nature , but simply with his down-to-earth approach to everything and everyone . |
| 53 | ‘ His indifference pushed her to the edge whereas he could have romanced her to the end of the world . |
| 54 | He was longing to ask Emily more about Vic , but having put her on the spot , he felt that this was not the right moment . |
| 55 | Her common-law husband ( who was never traced ) having left her with the ring from her finger , she went to several alehouses carrying her child and drank 8 glasses of spirits in a fit of depression . |
| 56 | ‘ You should have taken her to the clinic , Rachaela , ’ she said , without accusation . |
| 57 | She could n't have left her in the house . |
| 58 | It was as if , having goaded her to the point of total capitulation , he 'd opted for a wary cooling-off period . |
| 59 | We dread having to take her to the vets for her nails to be cut . |
| 60 | He might just as well have branded her with the seal of his possession . |