Example sentences of "she have [verb] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd wanted me to come to Lochgair and say sorry to him there , but I had begged for mercy , and — rather to my surprise — been granted it . |
| 2 | She 'd felt drawn to her , just as she 'd found herself drawn to all Roman 's family , including Salvo and his wife Sofia , and their tiny new baby , snuggled sleepily in its carry-cot , blissfully oblivious to the world around it . |
| 3 | She had seen it happen to others many a time . |
| 4 | From where she stood it shimmered in silver under a glancing sun , though upstream at the inn , where she had seen it close to , it rolled darkly brown and turgid , and laden with the debris of bushes , for the spring thaw had come late and violently , bringing down an immense weight of snow-water from the mountains of Wales . |
| 5 | The Sunday before she had asked him to come to tea . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've got to treat Patricia carefully , ’ she had overheard him say to her mother one night . |
| 7 | And she had accepted what had to be accepted , and she and Fergus had parted . |
| 8 | She had decided not to free the prisoners , so now she had to see what happened to the passengers . |
| 9 | This morning she had sensed he wanted to be friendly . |
| 10 | She had stopped being so afraid once she had heard him talking to her mother . |
| 11 | " Tea and toast , Marcus , " said Stephanie , in the voice she had heard herself use to Mrs Owen . |
| 12 | There had been a time when , like everyone else at the school , she had said she wanted to be a professional dancer , or an actress , or anything else that was exciting and totally different from working in a bank or being a dairy farmer 's wife . |
| 13 | She was n't sure how she had expected him to react to her announcement — gratitude or admiration might have been a bit much to hope for , she acknowledged wryly , but even a faint hint of relief would have been something . |
| 14 | When she had finished she said to Piers , to hide her confusion , ‘ I — I always think how odd it is that turtle soup does n't taste of turtle . ’ |
| 15 | When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in . |
| 16 | She had also been surprised at how easy she had found it to talk to him , about all the private , intimate failures and successes of her life ; fascinated to hear about his problems with the privately owned Wyndham International Banking Corporation , which he had recently taken over from his father . |
| 17 | It was the nearest she had known him come to making a joke . |
| 18 | She had learned what happened to those who did ! |
| 19 | She had had what seemed to be flu , but it had left her breathless , he said . |
| 20 | For a long time she had thought they referred to a mother and a female baby bear . |
| 21 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |
| 22 | Well the thing is , she 's got nobody to talk to there you see , she 's in this little four bedder |
| 23 | She 'll also make a grab for any toy that takes her fancy , even if she 's told it belongs to another child . |