Example sentences of "she have [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | They fell upon the red hour-glass painted on Big Momma 's abdomen as she swung down a thread of silk and revolved slowly round on the thread until she had landed on a flat shiny surface . |
| 32 | Consequently , she had to exist on an average income of £26 per week from an evening waitressing job . |
| 33 | ‘ Do n't worry , Matey , ’ he said to her , leaving the room of many memories , putting his arms about her , seeing with new eyes how old she had grown , and that he was all she had , the last of the many children for whom she had cared in a long life of selfless service . |
| 34 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 35 | She had fallen into a deep and dreamless sleep , the first time in a fortnight she had slept so well , when Quinn nudged her awake . |
| 36 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 37 | It was true also that she gave English lessons and that she had applied for a full-time job as an English teacher in a small private school . |
| 38 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |
| 39 | She had heard of a German drug called Aslocillin which she thought could help and so she pulled every string to find a supply . |
| 40 | Her prodigious roarings and weepings would be licensed in her mind by the examples of St Mary of Oignies ( whose book she had heard in an English translation ) , St Bonaventure , St Elizabeth of Hungary and an unnamed priest she had heard of who wept ‘ so wonderfully that he wetted his vestment ’ . |
| 41 | This girl was too used to getting her own way , but now she had stepped over an invisible line and she did n't even know it . |
| 42 | ‘ Liberator ’ was a role familiar to her : in the sixth century she had posed as a political giant-killer , putting down tyrannies in mainland Greece and even on the islands . |
| 43 | As a child she had suffered from a mild case of polio , which left one leg slightly shorter than the other . |
| 44 | She shared the perplexity she had felt as a young officer when she first discovered that a certain number of votes were required to elect a General . |
| 45 | But not before she had answered in a firm tone , ‘ Definitely . ’ |
| 46 | She had been deprived of him once before , six years ago , before she even knew she loved him , and then she had reacted with an endless rage that she had interpreted as hatred . |
| 47 | It would take too long and she would n't understand ; besides , she had phoned at a bad moment — Anne was obviously in a hurry to go out . |
| 48 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 49 | ‘ If industry does n't help me to achieve the objectives of the Government , we will have to take appropriate alternative steps , ’ she had said with a steely smile . |
| 50 | She had gone to a convalescent home in Bournemouth . |
| 51 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |
| 52 | She had observed with a quiet pleasure how the strident Roscoe woman had markedly cooled towards her former partner after his refusal ( and that of most of the others ) to sign her petulant letter of complaint concerning Sheila Williams . |
| 53 | She had stopped in a busy street in Cardiff city centre after a shopping trip , and left the engine running after hearing a strange noise . |
| 54 | But , regardless of how she felt , she had to put on a good face . |
| 55 | For Kirsty 's sake she had to put on a bright face . |
| 56 | One contained the proofs of an article she had written for an academic journal ; she scanned the contents of the envelope briefly and pinned it to her noticeboard to be dealt with on her return from Oxford . |
| 57 | She had written about a brilliant girl who in spite of two years of blindness would one day represent Spain as her illustrious brother had done . |
| 58 | Rugs in jewel shades of emerald and topaz were thrown over the terracotta-tiled floor and the curtains , like the sofa and armchair covers , she had sewn from a heavy cream fabric . |
| 59 | She had hoped for a new freedom , but had found a trap . |
| 60 | But Winnie , in all , though glad he was sick , that he had not jilted her , would have much preferred a broken leg — she had hoped for a broken leg — than the way he was , like those newsreel horrors : Hitler 's Jews , like something out of Belsen . |