Example sentences of "she have [adv] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the boys said later there had only been a tin of cat food and a bus pass and an old purse with a pound and a key in it anyway , and that they would n't have had to hit her if she had n't clung so hard to her handbag . |
| 2 | When she looked at him closely , Jill felt sorry for him and rather wished she had n't spoken so pointedly . |
| 3 | After all , before he had proposed , she had not seen so very much of Havvie , and she had been so flattered that it had not struck her how banal his conversation was , and how limited . |
| 4 | She had not spoken so elaborately for some time , and Betty knew the warning signs ; so , whereas with anyone else she would have appealed to their better nature , in this case she held her tongue . |
| 5 | ‘ No ! ’ the Doctor said , and at the same time Bernice was trying to remember exactly when she had had the conversation that she had just remembered so clearly . |
| 6 | How many times had she heard the phrase that she had just used so easily . |
| 7 | Winnie , dear Jesus , beneath the bed , and she had never moved so fast , would the fat sow never rise ? |
| 8 | Loyalty to him , Richard knew , meant that she had never complained so far to anyone but himself about this business of living , instead of in a nice house , in a boat in the middle of London . |
| 9 | She had never spent so long taking her clothes off , but when she finally stood alluringly naked she saw that he was still looking at her mouth . |
| 10 | When Thursday of that week came round , Leith was beginning to think she had never worked so hard . |
| 11 | She knew now , consciously at last and with absolute clarity , why she had always reacted so intensely to Luke Scott . |
| 12 | The luxury she had only glimpsed so far was all a far cry from the fading Victorian splendour of St Margaret 's with its peeling paintwork and under-staffed , overworked departments . |