Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a seriously ill patient to contend with and she 'd just had a telephone message to say that Brückner 's wife wanted to come up and visit him . |
| 2 | Marc made her feel as if she 'd just had a battle with a steamroller — but she was mildly pleased with herself . |
| 3 | Initially she 'd just had a bit of a fever and a very dry throat . |
| 4 | Which one was the real Luke Calder : the hard , tough businessman who would stop at nothing and spare no one to get what he wanted , or that tender stranger she 'd just had a glimpse of ? |
| 5 | And that 's the first time she 'd ever had a doctor . |
| 6 | She 'd never had a day 's illness in her life , but Timothy 's future was beginning to prey on her mind . |
| 7 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 8 | She had also had a pot plant on the chest called David . |
| 9 | You would never have believed that she had ever had a problem in that area . |
| 10 | She was blonde , like his Mandy , except unlike Mandy she had never had a chance in life . |
| 11 | She did not tell them she had never had a job , had been supported by a husband she had left . |
| 12 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |