Example sentences of "she has [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course absence from school and periods in hospital have been a disadvantage to her , but she has survived as a cheerful and courageous person . |
| 2 | The best she can do is to try to secure it by non-military , legal means , and this she has done with a fair measure of success . |
| 3 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 4 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 5 | She has dealt with a dead passenger in Poland ( his widow carried on regardless ) , outbreaks of war in India , and breaking her own leg falling out of a rickshaw in Nepal . |