Example sentences of "she have [vb pp] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anstey 's approach to this edition was initially intended to be thematic but she has reverted to the chronological format of the first edition , thus not only dispensing with the problems of placing the themes but also giving the reader a parallel in comment on Thomas 's development both in poetry and prose . |
| 2 | In Kahlo 's painting , the figure falls from the fantasy world she has inhabited to the harsh bloodspattered reality of the street , literally coming down to earth . |
| 3 | She stands as the martyr of organized and systematic sexual wrong-doing on the part of the man who should be her mate , and whom alone she has evolved to the human plane . |
| 4 | The eyes of his beloved wife , are tear-reddened ( sic ) and she has come to the awful realisation of a gap in her waning life which will never be filled . |
| 5 | As a child it had been embarrassing and as both teachers and playmates had looked askance at the familiarity she 'd reverted to the ubiquitous ‘ Mum ’ in their presence , but woe betide her if she had lapsed into this form of address in Margaret 's presence ! |
| 6 | After all , she now knew beyond reasonable doubt who her father had been , and she 'd warmed to the little she 'd been told about him . |
| 7 | She laughed happily , remembering the pains she 'd gone to the previous evening . |
| 8 | At what moment had she surrendered the tactics she 'd planned to the charismatic persuasion of Luke 's personality ? |
| 9 | Her own attraction to Matthew she had pushed to the outermost edges of her consciousness . |
| 10 | Driving along the Quay , Lucy thought about that morning when she had gone to the little bistro on the Place de Trainant to find Volkov . |
| 11 | Yesterday she had gone to the dingy little newsagent at the corner of the street to pay the paper bill , and to buy Matey a writing pad and envelopes , when she had seen on the counter a pile of postcards depicting society beauties . |
| 12 | He cared enough about his loathsome , drunken and violent third wife , Mayo Methot , not to leave her until he knew she had gone to the furthest extremes to try and cure herself of the alcoholism that threatened to ruin both their lives . |
| 13 | In order to liven their party up , she had gone to the United Social Club in Green Street to find more guests . |
| 14 | Shortly after her move abroad she had written to the then Director of Manchester City Art Gallery , Tim Clifford , asking if she could view some of the Museum 's early nineteenth-century cotton samples and take photographs . |
| 15 | DONATION — Pauline was pleased to report that she had written to the National Westminster Bank Sponsorship and Community Affairs Dept. and received a donation of £500 to the Society . |
| 16 | Kit Hegarty was in the big front bedroom , the one she had let to the two brothers from Galway . |
| 17 | He knew all about unhappiness : she had come to the right place . |
| 18 | It was as if she had come to the wrong place , as if the magic that shrivelled Cinderella 's full satins to limp rag had breathed over this place , enchantment vanished in the wood , only the old dank trees still and always there . |
| 19 | Merrill paused for a moment , wondering if she had come to the wrong address . |
| 20 | Then she saw that , in her haste to leave the hall , she had fled to the nearest exit , which opened on to a passage running along the side of the great-room . |
| 21 | He had once fought for the French , but they had not promoted him beyond the rank of colonel , she had deserted to the British who had rewarded his defection with a knighthood and a generalship , but even so , he still felt slighted . |
| 22 | Mrs Laughton said that one of the reasons for Mrs Kemp 's suspension was that she had objected to the Social Work Department ignoring the decisions of the Children 's panel . |
| 23 | I forgot to put the change in the , get it in , she 's moved to the other |