Example sentences of "she have a [adj] [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was she having a sly laugh at his expense , talking nonsense and then cornering him with a sudden question ? |
| 2 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 3 | Now , however , she had leisure to take in her surroundings , and she had a good look at an enormous house that she had barely glanced at before . |
| 4 | A few seasons back she had a small show at the now defunct 49th Parallel gallery but this is the first time New Yorkers will get to see works by this figurative painter in any profusion . |
| 5 | Luckily for her , she had a clever lawyer at her trial , and was never punished for the murder . |
| 6 | And she , she had a right go at me yesterday , right , er , this afternoon she goes , oh I took it out before I put me shoe , me foot in it , killjoy |
| 7 | I ca n't believe it , she had a right go at us , we were just chatting , and she said keep the noise down ! |
| 8 | ‘ She had a helpless husband at home in a wheelchair , dependent on her , but the Garda took no notice . |
| 9 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 10 | I could just make out that she had a little smile at the corner of her lips . |