Example sentences of "she have [vb pp] [adv] a [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 | She wears her usual dull black leggings , and for the cool April evening she has put on a black woolly top . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If she 'd cocked up a second race , Bill would have jocked her off Shine On , whatever Ibn Fayoud said . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Alone and friendless , she had struck up a casual friendship with Dermot as he showed her Dublin . |
| 12 | She had cleared up a few worrying points about William Egan . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The guttering that she had bodged up a few months previously had come loose again . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 17 | Lesley-Jane Decker had been on stage at the time of the shooting , so , unless she had brought in a hired killer , she seemed to be in the clear . |
| 18 | From Morrison she had found out a significant fact , which would have deterred anyone less prejudiced in their conviction of Nigel Steen 's guilt . |
| 19 | During her years as team manager she had set up a good system for running the team , organising training camps and equipment sponsors and felt that her energy could now be better spent on developing the sport at grass-root level . |
| 20 | And when she protested she never lay like that and had proceeded to demonstrate how she did lie , crossing her legs and pulling her knees up , she had let out a high squeal when the side of Sister Mary 's hard hand came across her knees in a whacking thump . |
| 21 | She had got over a hundred pounds . |
| 22 | She had put on a wide navy blue belt with the shorts , hoping to draw the eye away from the uncomfortable length of naked leg , but instead , because of her all too narrow waist , had managed to look even sexier than ever . |
| 23 | She had put on a pale green dress that she seldom wore . |
| 24 | Market Square and she had put on a thick pullover . |
| 25 | Somewhere along the road , she had picked up a few extra senses , and she would have to learn to live with them . |
| 26 | God she 's written down a massive great essay oh my God ! |
| 27 | I mean , it was just the words they were using , I mean oh It makes you cringe , oh and then that er girl oh she 's done quite a few things recently . |
| 28 | she thinks college is alright and she 's met quite a few people and she likes loads of . |
| 29 | Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines . |
| 30 | They use so much petrol on a taxi business they got she 's got about a dozen still I think . |