Example sentences of "[noun sg] she have [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Laura believed everything in the home should contribute to a pervading sense of calm and peacefulness ; the same calm and peacefulness she had first discovered at her aunt and uncle 's home in suburban Wallington . |
2 | Sylvie was no longer the withdrawn , slightly pitiable figure she had last seen in New York . |
3 | It was hard to reconcile this crisp , terse executive with the casual shorts-clad figure she had last seen on the jetty of the sailing club , directing the noisy , giggling group of children . |
4 | IT WAS ALL rather pathetic really , not at all the orgy of degradation she had half-imagined . |
5 | With the glasses he seemed to put on another nature — his stern , cool attitude she had first noted , and felt unthreatened by . |
6 | Her prayers were eventually answered , but after the birth of her first longed-for child she had four more . |
7 | But as a child she had many times been wrested ( as it felt to her ) from her known environment into some strange place , leaving her totally confused . |
8 | The one member of the CPNI who was centrally involved in NICRA was Betty Sinclair ; as secretary of the Belfast trades council she had more time to devote to it than trade-union officials like Banks and Harris . |
9 | But oh , he had set her heart to racing the instant she 'd first seen him . |
10 | She 's as generous as Robin Hood and all his merry men , she 's as kind as Florence Nightingale and then as kind again , right super mum she has x-ray vision , she can see through me , with a voice or rival calm when she called me in for tea , |
11 | ‘ I 've seen one other case — where a woman fell on her face — but in that case she had other facial injuries which Lewis did n't have . |
12 | ‘ Before she went to university she had great expectations but when she got there she was disappointed . |
13 | Pat had come to him and asked to be able to buy the shop — not with any money she had available at that time , but on a never-never basis , letting him have a share in the takings until the value of the business had been reached . |
14 | Charity had felt something tug at her heart the moment she had first seen this cove . |
15 | One girl there , she 's in our group she had brilliant , really good singing voice . |
16 | He had changed his parson 's clothes and now looked just like the young gentleman she had first met at Trantridge . |
17 | And after thirty-five years with the Duke she had hundreds of pieces , which came from all over the world . |
18 | Her image of herself tended to change according to which mirror she had last looked into or which person she had last spoken to . |
19 | ‘ I have a question , ’ whispered the penguin , feeling as small as the day she 'd first slid into the waves . |
20 | Somehow she doubted whether sharing with Sandra the fact that she already did regret the day she 'd first laid eyes on Matthew would be helpful to anyone . |
21 | ‘ She 's like she was the day she had Apricot , ’ said Rhoda . |
22 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
23 | And one day she had this other map , and I do n't know where she got that either , or what happened to it She only showed it me the once , and after that whenever I mentioned it she did n't know what I was talking about It was made of something absolutely rigid but incredibly thin . |
24 | When the steward returned with a steaming pot she had another cup . |
25 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
26 | Several times in the night she had this bad dream and once she woke up on the floor . |
27 | It was a collection she had last seen in the hands of William Fosdyke , Signor Fixit , as he locked up the house after her first visit . |
28 | But in the last round she had two fences down on the most difficult course , with Mandevilles Supreme , the mount of William Funnell , another of the finalists . |
29 | At the last count she had two hundred and forty of them . |
30 | I think , Maureen , I remember when we were about fifteen , at the last count she had forty nine first cousins ! |