Example sentences of "[that] she have [vb pp] a " in BNC.

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1 To which she replied that she had been sound asleep , that she had heard a desultory conversation , but its substance had nothing whatever to do with her .
2 Penelope wished now that she had worn a dress or suit instead of the elegant tartan trews , but they had seemed the only way to make Rupert Stonebird notice her .
3 She had already been removed to the Intensive Care Unit at the JR2 , but in the bedroom there seemed quite sufficient evidence that she had planned a deliberate departure .
4 ‘ Would n't it be lovely if Terry was one of them ? ’ a colleague said , but Sarah said quietly that she had received a letter from him and knew when he would arrive .
5 Kit hugged herself with pleasure at the thought that she had raised a son who would be an engineer .
6 There was no doubt in her mind that she had met a truly extraordinary mathematical brain , and words like child-genius and prodigy went flitting through her head .
7 In August Eileen wrote to Maureen that she had met a marvellous man .
8 She prickled at the implication that she had led a soft and protected life .
9 Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel .
10 Down on the steps , Marie had decided that she had made a mistake .
11 She was beginning to feel that she had made a mistake , and allowed herself to be exploited .
12 I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too .
13 The horse made another noise , more a groan than a grunt this time , and , as his stride faltered , Kelly knew that she had made a serious mistake .
14 Davidson , who had previously been married for a total of less than five years to three different wives , said after falling for Tracie that she had made a new man of him .
15 She knew that she had made a fatal mistake .
16 She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning .
17 But Albert was so sure that she had made a Will …
18 Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect .
19 She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box .
20 A girl lunged over the grid , screaming that she had made a mistake , fingers just missing the disappearing chips .
21 Despite her defiant words , though , she had the feeling that she had made a bad mistake during these last few minutes .
22 And , although she was rapidly coming to the conclusion that she had made a fool of herself all down the line , she still did n't quite know how .
23 Oh , lord , she inwardly groaned ; if this was Vendelin Gajdusek , then she had a rather unhappy feeling that she had made a terrible start !
24 On Aug. 24 the Syrian spokeswoman , Bushra Kanafani said that she had noted a " different style " in the Israeli delegation .
25 No doubt he exaggerated ( such was his wont where his conscience was concerned ) ; yet the only news she had received from Em herself had not been happy ; and now — to learn that she had suffered a miscarriage in that desert place at such a time of year , and that she had not felt able to share the grief of it with her own affectionate sister …
26 She was much too busy darting glances at Alain and then at Jenna and it was not hard to see that she had detected a certain restraint in the atmosphere .
27 He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa .
28 She was detained because the authorities suspected that she had given a Tibetan nationalist flag to a Buddhist monk from Gyurme monastery .
29 In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility .
30 Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind .
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