Example sentences of "but she have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been sensible to have got in touch , but she had been desperate to get back and every mile of the road from Paris had been singingly bittersweet . |
| 2 | At the time , the term meant nothing to her , but she had been intrigued , read the references to the religious wars in the regional guide-book and mentally filed the information for future use . |
| 3 | But she had been right about the other thing , so maybe she was right about this . |
| 4 | The story , which mentioned Puddephat by name , should have appeared in his file , but she had been right to doubt the efficiency of the Herald 's library staff . |
| 5 | But she had been rash enough to believe he was starting to care for her . |
| 6 | Mrs Diggory was herself but little touched , Theda believed , but she had been upset by her husband 's woeful demeanour . |
| 7 | But she had been fond of Moira , and guessed how much anguish the rift in the family must have caused her . |
| 8 | But she had been frightened and it made her angry with Albert . |
| 9 | He had kept out of her way while she 'd been interviewing but she had been aware of where he was all the time . |
| 10 | Well yes , Angie had been very busy and preoccupied with the wedding preparations , naturally , but she had been happy . |
| 11 | She had thought he would be happy about Mrs Gotobed 's message because she would have been , but she had been wrong about that . |
| 12 | But she had been wrong , for added to it now was a feeling of utter hopelessness : she was being confronted by a combined force . |
| 13 | State Premier Joan Kirner had inherited office when John Cain was forced to resign in August 1990 after a Royal Commission inquiry into the collapse of the merchant banking arm of the state bank , Tricontinental , revealed a record of financial mismanagement , but she had been unable to reverse the consequent unpopularity of her party . |
| 14 | But she had been lucky once , it was too much to hope for another equally timely arrival . |
| 15 | They had advised her to have the baby adopted , told her she 'd not be able to earn a living for them both , but she 'd been willful and gone her own way . |
| 16 | Low blood-pressure had been an unexpected side-effect of the glandular fever , but she 'd been sure she 'd come through all that . |
| 17 | I did n't understand what ‘ interest ’ was but she 'd been kind to me and I thought she would be kind to others and help them . |
| 18 | She guarded her secret carefully , terrified she was going to suffer from morning sickness , which might give the game away to her mother , but she 'd been lucky . |
| 19 | But she has been able to provide brief descriptions and detectives are now looking for three youths . |
| 20 | No but she 's been critical of lots of other people . |