Example sentences of "she have [vb pp] [art] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know she 'd had a child . |
| 2 | She lay down after she 'd got the children to school . |
| 3 | She had seen the children in other families break away entirely from the too zealous claims of an old nurse and when the time came , as it surely must , she wished to protect herself from the pain which rejection could cause . |
| 4 | In her first defence , Esther Dyson admitted by signs she had borne a child , but had pulled its head off when delivering it herself . |
| 5 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 6 | She had spoiled the child rotten . |
| 7 | Treitel ( 8th ed. ) , p. 87 says of Ward v. Byham : ‘ One basis of the decision is that the mother had provided consideration by showing that she had made the child happy , etc. : in this way she can be said to have conferred a factual benefit on the father , even though she may not have suffered any detriment . ’ |
| 8 | Gently , I said I wondered whether she had lost a child , whether that was why she was so unhappy . |
| 9 | Emilia had been long sick with pregnancy ; she had lost the child ; and somewhere she was terribly afraid . |
| 10 | Esther Dyson had consistently denied being pregnant , but two days prior to the discovery of the child , she had appeared very big in the family way , then the next morning , Mrs. Greaves noticed that Esther Dyson was pale , languid , weak and thinner , as if she had delivered a child . |
| 11 | She 's got no children , she was telling me last night in bed , there 's none on the way either . |
| 12 | she 's got no children . |
| 13 | And she 's got a child in that book . |
| 14 | Erm not up to visitors , ma erm , sh she has limited the times she 's visited because she 's got the children , and he 's just really not able to stand the children |
| 15 | She 's perhaps done what most working mothers do , she 's put the children first . |
| 16 | ‘ She 's had no children since the twins . ’ |