Example sentences of "she have [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She sees red , however , when the slogans and other aspects of her designs are copied and bowdlerised ; she has sounded off a great deal about suing the culprits , a litigious reflex often apparent in her career .
2 But she comes into her own at the not-bloody-likely tea party ; and by the end , she has achieved just the right blend of poignancy and pride .
3 She has received quite an unpleasant shock . ’
4 The shock can have a sudden and lasting effect ; the woman 's energy is no longer channelled into her appearance , and it seems as if she has made up the extra ten years , and more , all at once .
5 She wears her usual dull black leggings , and for the cool April evening she has put on a black woolly top .
6 She has taken on the sophisticated royal machine and beaten it at its own game .
7 She is modest , feeling she has taken only the first steps .
8 For years she 'd built up a protective shell around herself , a barrier against which the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune had bounced and fallen harmlessly to the ground .
9 She 'd turned down the only chance she had had .
10 She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time .
11 If she 'd had only the clerical level of interface that she was supposed to have , she 'd never have found it .
12 Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it .
13 She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own .
14 The best place for Jed during all of this , she 'd decided , would be with his minder ; she 'd worked out a special weekend rate with Mrs Neary some time ago and had been working on her conscience ever since .
15 It was as if she 'd thrown down an invisible gauntlet on the table , and Shae knew a moment 's bleakness .
16 If she 'd cocked up a second race , Bill would have jocked her off Shine On , whatever Ibn Fayoud said .
17 Why could n't she have had just a small taste of the honeyed delight that Rourke 's love would have brought , just a fragment of the glowing ember that would have warmed her inside , instead of this cold , bitter emptiness ?
18 She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own .
19 About six months after the dinner party she realised that , for the first time in her life , she had turned down a decent journalistic commission in order to start work for a crazy old lady off Ladbroke Grove , whose garden specialised in old roses , and who was insistent about sterilising soil before new plantings .
20 She had to carry along a spare one which belongs to her mum yesterday , in case the one she has had since 1984 became damaged .
21 Alone and friendless , she had struck up a casual friendship with Dermot as he showed her Dublin .
22 Surely this night the unexpected would happen , surely she had summoned up the unexpected .
23 She had cleared up a few worrying points about William Egan .
24 She had to lift up a few loose strands from her neck when Lowell fastened the beads . ’
25 Aggie finally found the cat a good home and from that day onwards she had kept up a running battle with her mice , reverting to paper plugs soaked in vinegar , which seemed to be reasonably effective .
26 The guttering that she had bodged up a few months previously had come loose again .
27 She had rigged up an old green bedspread over the thin cotton curtains , so the room was very dim with a murky greenish light .
28 She had known with all her soul that she had made just the right decision .
29 She had felt much the same herself of late , restless , needing to work off that restlessness , only she had n't had the same opportunities to indulge herself .
30 She had gone only a little way however , when she stopped to check her map and , to her consternation found that when she turned the ignition on again her car would n't go !
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