Example sentences of "she have [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course absence from school and periods in hospital have been a disadvantage to her , but she has survived as a cheerful and courageous person . |
| 2 | She has grown into an elegant and gracious woman , but lost none of the spark that made her such an endearing young bride . |
| 3 | Rebecca 's body has already rejected two kidneys , and she has to rely on a daily cocktail of drugs |
| 4 | At times she has dressed as an Arab woman , worn the ha'ik , looked at the ground as she walked , among women only . |
| 5 | The best she can do is to try to secure it by non-military , legal means , and this she has done with a fair measure of success . |
| 6 | I do n't think so she 's erm slow , she 's , she 's like erm , she has to go to a special school |
| 7 | Once the reader has grasped that there are different kinds of reading ( appropriate to different kinds of texts and different purposes ) , that reading must be undertaken actively and critically , and that he or she has to interact in a personal way with the text , then the reader is becoming proficient . |
| 8 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 9 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 10 | She has dealt with a dead passenger in Poland ( his widow carried on regardless ) , outbreaks of war in India , and breaking her own leg falling out of a rickshaw in Nepal . |
| 11 | When Sabine asked about France and French life , Isabelle had talked exclusively about Paris where she 'd trained as a commercial artist . |
| 12 | She 'd decided on a plain pastoral view of the asylum and its grounds , it was supposed to be routine . |
| 13 | If she 'd stayed in a fit state then she would n't have found herself in this situation now . |
| 14 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |
| 15 | That particular ghost was said at first , because she 'd lived in a hulking great castle with fields and forests and things , and when she saw it again it was a council estate and , as I said , a supermarket . |
| 16 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 17 | She 'd felt like a trapped animal back in the cottage , and like a trapped animal her only instinct had been to escape . |
| 18 | She 'd asked for a terse put-down , she reflected with some justice . |
| 19 | She 'd written about a new restaurant or hotel in one of the issues , a ‘ puff ’ being the expression , I think ; gone on an inter-island cruise ; star piece , always shown first , was her interview with their president 's wife . |
| 20 | Two weeks on perfect sand in sunshine nine to five ; she 'd returned with an all-over tan feeling wonderful and hey presto , head over heels in love with Astrid ! |
| 21 | She 'd started with a small ad in a contact magazine , and a box number to keep the entire business at arm 's length ; she could n't believe the number of replies that came in . |
| 22 | Travelling all day yesterday , she had subsisted solely on British Rail sandwiches and her supper had consisted only of the cereal and milk she 'd bought at a small general store in the nearest hamlet . |
| 23 | A post morteum revealled she 'd died from a large fracture of the skull , soon after she 'd been born . |
| 24 | She 'd acted like a silly hen . |
| 25 | Some said she 'd left with a broken heart . |
| 26 | She 'd behaved like a wanton , and why ? |
| 27 | This she had painted in a warm red tone , which complemented the dark wood and brass handles of her grandfather 's furniture . |
| 28 | She replied that she had lived in a small group of about 10 people : she indicated the number by holding up both hands with the fingers spread . |
| 29 | She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised . |
| 30 | She had dressed in a vivid red blouse and a loose woollen blue cardigan , and she had tied her long dark hair into a pony tail with an orange scarf . |