Example sentences of "she [vb past] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd had two helpings . |
| 2 | she loved children and I think she would of had more because she 'd had two miscarriages and she 's |
| 3 | She 'd had one experience of lesbianism , and had hated it . |
| 4 | I sent her Nit Ac LM1 and did n't hear anything for a year when she rang up with a headache — it turned out that the anal fissure had cleared quickly and she felt she had been miraculously well given her sister had been murdered 12mths previously and she 'd had 4 months leave of absence from work to deal with the aftermath which had involved her nephew joining the family . |
| 5 | Her sister would blame Claudia for tracking her down ; she would n't believe she 'd had little choice in the matter . |
| 6 | Not that she 'd had much time to explore it , of course . |
| 7 | Karen King — because she was English , Jessica insisted — had given over even thinking about them , let alone imagining what they might do with their hard , lean bodies and their tired , rope-burned hands , had given over bothering to deny she 'd had such fantasies . |
| 8 | From the glimpses he 'd caught he believed she 'd had slight curves — he would n't have fancied her otherwise . |
| 9 | And since , unlike many wives of city moguls , she 'd had recent experience at the sharp end of business in the City of London , she understood , only too clearly , the problems he was facing at the present time . |
| 10 | No doubt she 'd had ample proof of it . |
| 11 | Perhaps he ceased to be useful to her once she 'd had some success in England — I do n't know . |
| 12 | She 'd had some tomatoes and er she never washes them all she do n't do that |
| 13 | She 'd had some requests made of her in her time but none seemingly as outrageous as this . |
| 14 | She made an effort to feel some true sympathy , but it was difficult — she supposed that she would n't be able to experience compassion in a deep and real sense until she 'd had some children , since only matters like the putting down of young greyhounds brought tears to her eyes . |
| 15 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |
| 16 | Theodora felt she 'd had enough surprises . |
| 17 | If it was her destiny to suffer in life , well , she 'd had enough practice , had n't she ? |
| 18 | She 'd had severe hearing impairment since birth and had become profoundly deaf in her mid-twenties , at a time when welfare services were mainly restricted to those provided by charities and phrases like ‘ deaf and dumb ’ were still common public currency . |
| 19 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 20 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |
| 21 | ‘ He would n't mind going with you to the concert , ’ she said , thinking that she could have phrased that better if she 'd had more notice . |
| 22 | If she 'd had any doubts about Tara 's relationship with the villa 's owner , they rapidly evaporated as she watched the other girl 's body language in graceful retreat . |
| 23 | The way things were , she was going to have to watch what she said to Aunt Sarah — and that was not something she 'd had any practice in . |
| 24 | And , if she 'd had any illusions about being able to deceive him , his behaviour over the past two days had put paid to that . |
| 25 | By this time , however , she 'd had three weeks in which to move from bitter , aching despair , to bitter , aching fury . |
| 26 | She 'd had three children and it showed . |
| 27 | She was thirty-six when she cleared out and she 'd had three kids , but she still made younger women look and feel like there was no contest . ’ |
| 28 | When she 'd been very little , not too long after her parents had died , she 'd had bad dreams . |
| 29 | She 'd had bad times before she got the flat , but with the flat and the job she felt herself well off She worked from six in the morning to a quarter to nine , getting the offices clean and tidy for the staff who came in at nine o'clock , and for two hours in the evening , from six-thirty to eight-thirty . |
| 30 | Every time she had protested that she could ride alone and was not fit to be near anyone until she 'd had several baths he had laid his hand over her mouth and told her to hush . |