Example sentences of "she have [vb pp] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 If she 'd hoped he would take the hint and leave her to it , she was sadly disappointed .
2 You called your wife a tart , which is your business and hers , but you also said that if you 'd known where she 'd gone you would have caught her at it .
3 Maggie scrounged what food she could , and when Sarah dipped a crust of bread in the cabbage soup she 'd made she could see the cracks in the bottom of the dish through the thin liquid .
4 They could only lead down a particularly humiliating blind alley she 'd vowed she 'd avoid at all costs …
5 I 'd read the various bits and pieces a couple of times now , looking for something deep and mysterious in it all but not finding anything ; I 'd even done a little research of my own , and discovered through mum that dad had some more of Rory 's papers in his study ; she 'd promised she 'd try and look them out for me .
6 She 'd known he would follow Didi as soon as the ring was found and the American wanted him by her side , but still his words brought such pain that for a moment Luce thought she 'd moaned aloud .
7 She 'd known he 'd think that and that was one of the reasons why she had n't wanted to get into this conversation in the first place .
8 Somehow she 'd known he 'd seek her out , or else she was simply too tired to register any kind of emotion at his intrusion into her dressing-room .
9 In fact she 'd forgotten she 'd put it there .
10 She 'd forgotten he 'd come here ahead of them .
11 ‘ We thought she 'd thought we 'd run him down , ’ Fernando laughed , throwing his head back and holding his forehead .
12 Why had n't she stood her ground ; simply called Luke 's bluff — even pleaded with him if she 'd thought it would do any good ?
13 It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said
14 She 'd thought she could cope with her fears .
15 To throw over that stability she had insisted they must have .
16 He arranged bridging-loans and a mortgage to make up the price of the tall house with the basement into which she had decided he should move as a lodger , abandoning his awful little bed-sit in Chepstow Road .
17 She approached her employers because she had decided she would like to set up her own business .
18 There she had found her husband still snoring on her cot , and she had stretched out on his ; but sleep had n't come , and long before dawn she had decided she must leave the camp at once .
19 She had imagined she could face his passion and then remember it with warmth .
20 As she talked Eva revealed it was not just that she was coming back to God , but that she had realised she must give her whole self to him for the ministry .
21 For a minute she had believed she might have been responsible for the change in his life , but it was n't her but Maria Luisa .
22 Once she had believed she could control these feelings , but in reality that was proving not so easy to do .
23 Now that really did astound her , for she had assumed he must know , and that was why he was so convinced of her guilt .
24 She had felt she 'd die rather than give him the satisfaction , but now she 'd have to be clever , for by implication she had denigrated his power and his commitment to protect her .
25 She had guessed it would look better — more disarming — not to be carrying a bag ; as if she expected to be out only for a short time .
26 The inevitable course for them both had been clear tonight ; if she had stayed they would have made love again — there had been no question about it .
27 For instance , after she had said I would have remained in ignorance , the tree opens wisdoms way though secret she retire , the word secret catches up almost by a mechanical verbal train of association the thought and on it perhaps secret and then all these uneasy feelings that perhaps God 's so far away , or he was n't watching , or in some way or other he did n't actually see .
28 She had said it would do him good .
29 She had said he must marry only so as not to disappoint his mother ; but should he come to her one day and say he was about to marry someone , that would assuredly beat her into the ground .
30 And no , they had not been expecting to see her that weekend , though with Giles away she had said she might come on the Sunday .
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