Example sentences of "she have [vb pp] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If she 'd stayed in a fit state then she would n't have found herself in this situation now . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This she had painted in a warm red tone , which complemented the dark wood and brass handles of her grandfather 's furniture . |
| 5 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 6 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | But not before she had answered in a firm tone , ‘ Definitely . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had spoken in a low voice , but M. Dupont behind me exclaimed immediately : ‘ Ah , good ! ’ |
| 15 | The other three looked at her as though she had spoken in an old and now unknown language . |
| 16 | By Saturday lunchtime Merrill was feeling very satisfied ; the dress , with its big , softly pleated white collar , made a nothing of her waist , and its colour exactly matched the blue ribbon of the jaunty white boater she had found in an exclusive hat shop . |
| 17 | She had left in a black fury . |