Example sentences of "she have [vb pp] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |
| 2 | Travelling all day yesterday , she had subsisted solely on British Rail sandwiches and her supper had consisted only of the cereal and milk she 'd bought at a small general store in the nearest hamlet . |
| 3 | She had suffered at the sharp end of the tongues of some of Dej 's more sophisticated barons ' wives in the 1950s and Dej 's favourite daughter did not respect her . |
| 4 | It would take too long and she would n't understand ; besides , she had phoned at a bad moment — Anne was obviously in a hurry to go out . |
| 5 | Eleanor was right when she had said at the very beginning that he should have gone along with the corporate planning proposals to phase-out the UK Vehicle Division as a manufacturing operation . |
| 6 | She tried to hide her feelings by concentrating , as she had done at the Red House , on the children . |
| 7 | She said she was sure she had rung at the worst possible moment — she always rang important people at the worst possible moment . |
| 8 | No , she had not wanted that , not Papa 's shrewd eyes on her ; she had shivered at the very thought . |
| 9 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 10 | She did not know exactly how she had arrived at the last overwhelming conviction , only that she had . |
| 11 | Marie said nothing but she had worked at an old people 's home as part of her Community Care Course . |
| 12 | She had looked at the first lines but now she was n't reading any of it . |
| 13 | How lovely she had looked at the early morning Mass . |