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

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1 And she 'd got a big black hat on , and a big black cloak , and all er crosses down here , and she 's got a boot on her arm all laced up , and nobody 'd know whether she were a man or a woman .
2 No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her
3 and she 'd got a table in front of her and she was sitting on the settee and the table in front of her and this new jigsaw , over a hundred pieces in it and there she was lady
4 No right , there 's this lady who was a prostitute and she 'd got a daughter .
5 In the days when it was briefly fashionable to be seen around with black people she had also been known as ‘ Missy ’ , and she 'd had a black lover then .
6 Aunt Alicia was old , she kept telling herself , and she 'd had a full life , and she died in her sleep with no pain , but somehow it did not seem to make it much better .
7 And she 'd had a drink , and a good cry , she 'd had
8 It was only weeks after the speech that I began to read in the press that actually her theme had been positive and she had presented a positive forward view .
9 It had been a long day and she had absorbed a lot of information on the subject that was uppermost in her mind .
10 She had a lot of curly hair and she had tied a bow in it .
11 The Jones ' family had moved in quietly when Jamie was just nine years old , and she had lived a few doors down the street .
12 The hut roof was fairly whole now , and she had built a tiny hearth under the highest part of the roof where she might risk a fire .
13 It had been a slow process , of course , but gradually her reputation had grown and she had gained a singular name for creative , imaginative work .
14 And she had made a choice ; she had chosen not to go home , she had chosen to live here and cope with sharks between the furniture and Bryony 's contempt , in order to purchase a freedom … to choose what she would do next .
15 And she had devised a hook for time with Lucy .
16 And she had given a certain name to it , and I ca n't remember what the name was now , something like fiddling , I mean fiddling is too obvious , it was n't that , but it was something like that , an ordinary everyday term like that .
17 Bernard and she had discovered a whole new range of fashionable sexual positions .
18 By the time Corrie 's wedding took place Philippa was over the worst of her sadness and in a good position to enjoy it to the full — ; the closest to the centre of the ceremonies , yet fancy free ; and she had had a very good time — much affectionate sympathy from aunts and cousins , and husbands of aunts and cousins , and admiration and flirtation and kissing enough .
19 ‘ I did n't expect to hear anything for at least a week , but the next day she rang with the words and melody all worked out — and she had sat a school exam the same day . ’
20 Then her anger erupted , her hand flashed upwards and she had delivered a stinging slap to his left cheek before she even realised that she intended to .
21 Six months later the Great War had broken out and she had found a new cause .
22 It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying .
23 The extended family was an accepted way of life in the dales and she had shared a home with her husband 's parents and brother until their deaths .
24 Her face had been just the same then — interested but inscrutable — and she had taken a fiver off all of them .
25 She had read of Cupid , the little god of love , and of his wicked darts piercing the heart at the moment of understood love , and she had laughed a little at the idea ; but one of them had struck home at last , and she knew that on the two previous occasions when she had previously and disastrously thought herself in love it had not been love at all …
26 She was passionately interested in politics and most of all in the personnel of politics , and she had cultivated a limited group of Labour politicians who , with her , were rightly described as Harold Wilson 's ‘ Kitchen Cabinet ’ .
27 Born in 1979 her butterfat output was 1,794kg and protein 1,434 and she has recorded a life-time milk yield is almost 140,000 litres .
28 ‘ Whereas the said John Weston Foakes is indebted to the said Julia Beer and she has obtained a judgment in Her Majesty 's High Court of Justice , Exchequer Division , for the sum of £2,090 19s .
29 Therefore after six months the dieter is behaving according to all twenty-six goals and she has achieved a considerable reduction in sugar intake .
30 It is with interest , that I read Amanda Archibald 's recently published notes of her thoughts as a U.K. citizen , now living and working in the U.S.A. By all accounts , she has been profoundly impressed , and she has done a good job in introducing ‘ Contact ’ readers to some of the many positive aspects of living as an expatriate in the U.S.A. As a person proud to enjoy dual nationality of Canada and England , however , I should like to redress the balance somewhat , and question some of Amanda 's blanket statements .
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