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

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1 She has played in two of Brixton 's three matches so far — including Sunday 's 15-1 , 15-10 , 15-11 win over Southgate — and believes the standard has improved since she last played .
2 This year , she has played in six tournaments as far away as Australia , New Zealand , Tokyo , Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur .
3 From the number of lengthy interviews she has given in recent weeks , it seems pretty obvious that the opposition has been playing the Prime Minister 's game — she clearly intended to hold an election next month .
4 I start from a position of very much respecting the fact that the hon. Member for Gateshead , East was a Member of the European Parliament for 10 years before becoming a Member of this House and I recognise the expertise that she has acquired in this subject .
5 She has succeeded in convincing Rainbow that she alone must somehow atone for the misdeeds of the ancestress who caused poor Anya to wander forever in a twilight world .
6 She has worked in several countries in Latin America and was formerly Secretary of the Chile Committee for Human Rights .
7 She has lectured in 40 countries and written more than 70 articles .
8 Rigoberta Menchu has lived in exile in Mexico for the past 11 years , yet the only weapons she has used in that time have been words .
9 She 'd moved in two weeks earlier and always corrected the spelling of her name when it was written wrongly on the cleaning rotas .
10 He could n't help thinking of something that she 'd said in all seriousness when they 'd left the apartment building behind and a lack of any interest from a passing night patrol on the motorway had told him that no , the police did n't seem to be keeping an active watch for his car ; she 'd looked at him and she 'd said , Promise me , Peter .
11 She always always oh she she had a second sight like that , I think she should 've been a doctor if she 'd lived in these this day and age .
12 A romantic little episode , yet the intensity of what she 'd felt in those moments could have overwhelmed her completely if she had n't remembered Didi 's words .
13 Juliet wished she 'd sat in some corner .
14 When she left the stage that night , the usual tumultuous applause was ringing in her ears , yet she felt peculiarly dissatisfied , as though she 'd failed in some important task .
15 She was in the happiest frame of mind she 'd known in recent times when later that day she returned to her car .
16 ‘ For instance , if someone had n't heard from a man friend for — oh , for a couple of weeks or so-when he 'd said vaguely he 'd ring — I mean , she might wonder if there was something wrong , if he was ill , or if she 'd offended in some way .
17 Miss Lister administered it herself , and during her life there continued the practice she had begun in 1817 of keeping a daily journal .
18 It had thrown up some very challenging cross-references in its time , and she was at the moment pursuing a connection between the nature of quattrocento pigmentation and lichenology as a method of dating the antiquity of landscape : a gratifyingly pointless and therefore pure pursuit , which enabled her mind to wander in the direction of Italy and to hover about the abstraction of a particular shade of green-blue which she had noted in many a painted Italian scene as well as in the lichens of ancient English woodland .
19 His wavy black hair curled behind his ears so thickly that she was reminded of an Ingres portrait of a nobleman she had seen in one of Miss Hatherby 's books .
20 ‘ ’ Devon , the garden of England ! ’ ' said Breeze , quoting from the brightly coloured placards she had seen in various stations en route .
21 But she looked down through the glass skylight and recognised in Maggie 's cropped hair and long white body the same contours that she had seen in that other virgin warrior whom she had inspired into battle .
22 She was as much their victim as the naked flesh she had seen in that bleak vision had been victim to the flail .
23 Sometimes , Hawk was like the masters she had seen in Chinese martial arts movies , talking in parables , and drawing out his pupil 's skills through subterfuge .
24 It went pop , and Signe leaned forward into the candlelight so that all the customers could see her , and sipped at the champagne and narrowed her eyes at me in a gesture of passion that she had seen in some bad film .
25 It seemed to Marie like those ‘ executive-style ’ rooms she had seen in numerous television advertisements and soap operas : bright , spacious and open plan with acres of carpets , a jungle of lush potted plants , low leather chairs with squashy seats and coffee tables , casually strewn with expensive , up-market magazines .
26 Privacy ; Erika longed for it herself , often , but it occurred to her , for the first time , that her mother might long for it , too , might want it and , indeed , need it , and it dawned on her , also for the first time , that her mother had never had any privacy since the end of the War ; that all her life since then she had lived in small apartments , actually in one small room for long periods , and sharing even that room with others … .
27 She had lived in this flat for two years now , working as a secretary in the City , recovering from her life as a war victim , wanting only peace and freedom from her jealous , possessive father and her jealous , possessive uncle .
28 The collapse of EDC was a bitter blow to the European movement , made worse by the fact that in October , after a crisis which threatened to rend the Atlantic alliance apart , France accepted West German rearmament within NATO , the very thing she had rejected in 1950 .
29 From leaving school at twelve years of age until her marriage to Hywell Gates at the age of twenty-five , she had slaved in other peoples houses for a pittance .
30 But what was totally unfamiliar was the athleticism and poised stage presence she had achieved in such a short time .
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