Example sentences of "that she have [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She had to admit , however , that the main reason that she had phoned the Symses and answered their appeal so promptly was that it took her out of the house , and away from the strain of being with Mark in public while the incident of the night before still divided them .
2 I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully .
3 MARY BAILEY revealed that she had kept an Oscar that was terrified by earthworms .
4 Fei Yen had looked up briefly , only to avert her eyes again , but it was clear from her smile that she had heard the story often and was not displeased by it .
5 Penelope wished now that she had worn a dress or suit instead of the elegant tartan trews , but they had seemed the only way to make Rupert Stonebird notice her .
6 A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night .
7 ‘ Or someone like her , ’ Belinda stressed , not wanting him to guess that she had noticed the brunette 's special interest in him .
8 ‘ Would n't it be lovely if Terry was one of them ? ’ a colleague said , but Sarah said quietly that she had received a letter from him and knew when he would arrive .
9 When she had graduated from the School of Fashion she had sold her entire degree collection to Lady Jane , a small but exclusive West End boutique , who had greeted her designs with such enthusiasm that she had believed the world was her oyster and everything was about to happen for her .
10 Kit hugged herself with pleasure at the thought that she had raised a son who would be an engineer .
11 Moreover , now that she had achieved the heart 's desire for which she had turned on her shameless , neurotic display , she had become dejected , and walked along meekly , head and tail hanging .
12 One suffragette , Rosa Lamartine Yates , recounted that she had witnessed the double-standard in action while standing bail for two women at the west London police court .
13 I got my staff to check on the Charlotte T. , and found that she had sailed the day after Andrew Stavanger wrote his letter .
14 She told the National Enquirer that she had met the prince just months before the Duchess of York was snapped in intimate poses in the South of France with American financial adviser John Bryan , 37 .
15 How unlucky that she had met the sons and not the father !
16 She was in love with Piers , and , now that she had accepted the agony of knowing that her love was n't returned , maybe she could fight for him , could fight to win his heart , because it was silly to assume that he had some sort of woman in his life simply because the astrologer , a girl hardly older than herself , had implied as much .
17 When she put them down , I could see that she had accepted the truth .
18 She commented afterwards that she had made no money on the venture : ‘ I lost nothing , neither did I gain much , others run away with the profit . ’
19 Dexter noticed that she had made no mention of the murder weapon being a pair of scissors or of the discovery of blood in a wash-basin near where the body was found .
20 Down on the steps , Marie had decided that she had made a mistake .
21 She was beginning to feel that she had made a mistake , and allowed herself to be exploited .
22 I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too .
23 She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning .
24 A girl lunged over the grid , screaming that she had made a mistake , fingers just missing the disappearing chips .
25 But Albert was so sure that she had made a Will
26 Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel .
27 And , although she was rapidly coming to the conclusion that she had made a fool of herself all down the line , she still did n't quite know how .
28 She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box .
29 It did not stop her knowing that she had made an idiot of herself and upset Harriet Shakespeare , who had enough trouble without that .
30 She knew that she had made an impression on Nicky , simply by the way he had looked at her when he and his mother had said goodbye .
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