Example sentences of "[noun] that she have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And the allegation that she had been disloyal to anyone was very firmly refuted . ’ |
| 2 | Within a month Wilson saw with her own eyes that she had been right . |
| 3 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 4 | Two Cellophane-wrapped sprays that she had been unable to deliver were lying on the bouquet of roses she had prepared for her rival . |
| 5 | It is a great merit in Mrs Taylor that she has been content to be guided by her moral taste , which is very fine and true , without trying to form a set of principles upon it . |
| 6 | The struggle to understand everything showed clearly on her face , and slowly , surely , she found a ray of hope in the mess , something to compensate for the painful discovery that she 'd been ignorant of her own roots . |
| 7 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 8 | Vass blithely ignored her charge that she 'd been press-ganged . |
| 9 | THE woman who left her 11-year-old daughter alone in a London flat while she went on holiday to Spain denied last night that she had been heartless or wicked . |
| 10 | Someone who had called on Angy , found her groomed and perfumed and ready to receive a rival , and been moved to uncontrollable violence by the belief that she had been unfaithful ? |
| 11 | Later , rejecting the claim that she has been irresponsible , Murphy says : |
| 12 | She wanted to prove to Madame Gloriana that she had been wrong — to let her see how happy she was . |
| 13 | It was probably a mercy that she 'd been sick . |
| 14 | She glanced up at the ceiling once , as if in appreciation of the solution to a tough puzzle that she 'd been unable to crack without help ; the tile was still stuck in the open position , and Charlie was in no state to clamber up there and fix it . |
| 15 | Writing it reinforced her conviction that she had been right to stay in Florence . |
| 16 | I did , despite the fact that she had been unfaithful . |
| 17 | It was a look so burning and intense that it had left her fearful and uncertain , and it was only by immersing herself in paperwork that she had been able to recapture some of her habitual calm . |