Example sentences of "she [vb past] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a certain reluctance she agreed to have a further examination , and tests were taken from the cervix and urethra . |
| 2 | On yet another impulse , she stopped to have a quick look , because it just might have mentioned where Slane was , might n't it ? |
| 3 | A couple of winters ago , caught out on a patch of ice , she 'd had a mild argument with a lamppost , damaging more or less the same spot that had been damaged again today . |
| 4 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 5 | The five-star novelist gave me an unfathomable glimmer when I closed the car door for her and remarked that she 'd had a long chat with Harry that afternoon on the telephone . |
| 6 | Kate , pregnant with her second baby , thought she knew what to expect when it came to giving birth , especially since she 'd had a long labour first time round . |
| 7 | He would have enjoyed the odd weekend in Brighton away from the pressures of London life , if only she 'd had a bigger flat . |
| 8 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 9 | In the days when it was briefly fashionable to be seen around with black people she had also been known as ‘ Missy ’ , and she 'd had a black lover then . |
| 10 | Diane had n't been a stunner , but she 'd had a pleasant face and a more than tolerably decent body . |
| 11 | She 'd had a terrible time at the birth . |
| 12 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 13 | Tomorrow , when she 'd had a good night 's sleep , she 'd be much better capable of dealing with him . |
| 14 | Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’ |
| 15 | By now she 'd had a good look at him . |
| 16 | On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing . |
| 17 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
| 18 | Aunt Alicia was old , she kept telling herself , and she 'd had a full life , and she died in her sleep with no pain , but somehow it did not seem to make it much better . |
| 19 | If Mrs Marr knew a bit of human anatomy , for example , if she 'd had a medical training or been a PE teacher something like that , she 'd have a better chance of being competent , by which I mean lethal . |
| 20 | She 'd had a 24-hour labour but often said she did n't know what all the fuss was about these days . |
| 21 | In fact she 'd had a brief nap on the flight over and the adrenalin was racing round her body , making the possibility of sleep unlikely , but anything was better than sitting like a frightened child beside him , hoping against hope that he would finally melt and utter the sort of words she had once yearned to hear . |
| 22 | Looking tired and drawn as she paid a visit to the homes in Wirral and Warrington , she was quick to point out to photographers that she 'd had an early start . |
| 23 | She seemed to have a proper regard for the frivolous things in life . |
| 24 | She seemed to have a sensible head on her shoulders . |
| 25 | She seemed to have a natural gift of dignity . " |
| 26 | She was certainly still young enough to play with children , but , in a way , she seemed to have an old head on those shoulders . |
| 27 | When Joanne worked on more open-ended work , she liked to have a whole class session to ensure that everyone had ‘ got the basic idea ’ . |
| 28 | She wished she could lay claim to a migraine but knew that Betty would not let her , that anyway even she could not be so mannerless as to absent herself from her own picnic , and that even if she did have a blinding migraine she would still have to go . |
| 29 | For example , you could discover whether the employee 's watch was faulty , or whether she did have a regular hair appointment on Friday . |
| 30 | Despite her irritating affectations , she did have a genuine flair for divining quality in both literature and the visual arts . |