Example sentences of "she have [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This keeps him happy until it is time to go to the nursery by which time she has cleared up the mess .
2 Your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper , she has to slide down the banisters .
3 She has to carry up the children , her shopping and any other goods coming into the household .
4 Then Susan comes in , and when she has put down the tray she is carrying , she turns the light on beside his chair and draws the curtains so that the room becomes a series of pools of light , isolating each of us .
5 Brittain says : ‘ She has put back the weight , is in tremendous form — and deserves a tilt at another classic . ’
6 With no qualifications and precious little experience , she has taken on the job of Princess of Wales and is turning it into a significant career — and at the same time has brought up two small boys .
7 She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily .
8 Until last week , she worked as a cleaner at the local community centre , but colleagues say she 'd given up the job to spend more time with her sick mother .
9 After she 'd made out the application for him she said , ‘ Can you manage if I leave you with it ? ’
10 Leonora , expecting to be taken by storm after she 'd flung down the gauntlet , found Penry in no hurry at all .
11 For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame .
12 Christina warmed to her and was glad for the trouble she 'd taken on the Morris 's account .
13 She said — and I do n't know if she was just bullshitting me , ’ and here Blufton opened his palms in a gesture of frankness , ‘ that she 'd found out the dates when a couple of lorries were due at Dover .
14 No we no she 'd got out the pool you see , she was I did n't recognize her , she said oh it looks like all the family 's here and I was only talking to Evelyn and , and I kept trying to place her and it was only when she said oh Rebecca was born a month after cos she 's died her hair a different colour , I did n't , just did n't recognize her at all .
15 She had put an old cardigan over the top , and she 'd rolled up the sleeves and she was shaking that bucket .
16 She had moved up the shop , between the assortment of hats perched on stands and to the counter behind which the other two sisters were standing , the tall spare-looking Miss Rene and the almost diminutive Miss Florence .
17 She had called up the hall :
18 She had to go back the way she had come .
19 And she had kept up the pretence in the air-conditioned hotel and on the pool terrace , drinking mint tea to get the feel of the place , though she could n't stand the stuff really , and never knew what to do with the sprigs of mint .
20 Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else .
21 However , the countess was later charged with perverting the course of justice after police became convinced she had made up the story .
22 ‘ I think so , ’ answered Mildred , though in fact she had made up the tale on the spur of the moment and it had somehow got rather out of hand .
23 She had sorted out the reins now and Caspar had explained about just touching the horse 's flanks with her heels to spur it to a gallop .
24 It was her body and the way she moved ; the thinness of her body and the way she had walked up the hotel steps .
25 She had rinsed out the tub , and lowered the big and tarnished metal plug into the hole .
26 Giving in to the inevitable , and until she had found out the truth she had as yet no quarrel with his mother , Ellie relaxed her rigid stance .
27 Just the sight of the stamp had been enough to set her heart beating uneasily and she had to fight down the urge to put off reading the words someone had written to her .
28 She had to wash up the lunch things before she could get started .
29 It would be awful to get up next morning and find she had drifted down the canal .
30 She had set down the candle .
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