Example sentences of "a [noun sg] she have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A route she had been forced to follow , never quite closing the gap , though it narrowed all the time . |
| 2 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 3 | Now she had become a pensioner she had been able to give up work as a midwife , and she spent much of her time on her allotment : |
| 4 | Durance said to Rain : ‘ I ca n't believe Joseph does n't understand that selling under her name a painting recognizable as a Durance is equivalent to telling a journalist she had been painting my pictures . |
| 5 | ‘ Yup , ’ she 'd said , shifting down to fourth as a car she 'd been waiting to pass pulled back into the slow lane . |
| 6 | He 'd blame it all on the beer and the sherry , he 'd say with a laugh she 'd been right to tell him not to take any . |
| 7 | She 'd thrown herself at him , and then when she 'd panicked he 'd dropped her like a hot potato … what a fool she 'd been ! |
| 8 | What a fool she had been . |
| 9 | In her days as a schoolteacher she 'd been known for the quickness of her wit and her clarity of thought . |
| 10 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |
| 11 | For a moment she 'd been tempted to tell him what Celia had said . |
| 12 | For a while she had been in paradise ; now it was over . |
| 13 | She had always believed there would be someone special — for a while she had been under the illusion that that someone was Marcus . |
| 14 | For a start she had been the only woman , and her colleagues had found it strange that she should be working with them . |
| 15 | As a teenager she had been frail and very light , and although now she is two stone heavier , and healthier for it , she still believes that young women should be thin , even skeletally so . |
| 16 | A hint she had been blind to because the very notion of suicide was so antithetical to her own nature . |
| 17 | Abruptly , and with a habit she had been on the way to forgetting he had , Ven Gajdusek cut her off again . |
| 18 | Many had n't understood a word she 'd been saying . |
| 19 | She also toyed with a book she had been given as a Christmas present , In Tune With The Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine . |
| 20 | For over a year she had been cutting out coupons from magazines and sending off for make-up samples that she had kept hidden in a small suitcase in the boathouse ; since her grandmother 's death she had brought them indoors and experimented openly , primping all day long , leaving streaks of grease everywhere , on the table cloth , on the bathroom shelves . |
| 21 | To have such a thing happen — when for a lifetime she had been a perfectly normal agnostic , like everybody else . |
| 22 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 23 | Well okay , that was a time she 'd been camping in the Lake District , Mrs did . |
| 24 | And at the same time she could sell the emeralds , a task she had been dreading . |
| 25 | For an instant she had been tempted to get out of the invitation with a lie . |
| 26 | Bluebeard had been a private joke — an exclamation she had been unable to stifle as they 'd rounded the cliff at the head of the valley and she had got her first glimpse of the imposing turreted Castell Rocamar . |
| 27 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |