Example sentences of "[noun] she have [adv] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 2 | With subtle flattery she had gradually been accepted by the housekeeper . |
| 3 | What decided her in the end was that the new job specification covered much of the work she had already been doing at Stoy 's for C&R and she was loth to let it go . |
| 4 | Since the Second Vatican Council she had even been removed from the Universal Canon , by ignorant prelates who — full of their scientific and rationalist approach to the institutions of sanctity — insisted she had never existed . |
| 5 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 6 | ‘ Albert , the master of witty repartee , says ‘ Piss off ’ , ’ she retorted , finally finding a use for the punchline of the worst joke she 'd ever been told . |
| 7 | This was the moment she 'd frankly been dreading . |
| 8 | While Diana has inherited her mother 's sparky , strong-willed nature she has also been blessed with her paternal grandmother 's qualities of thoughtfulness and compassion . |
| 9 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Lamont was not connected with vice but Welsh told him the previous day she had almost been run down by one of Roth 's friends . |
| 10 | He had no income when he married The Maid of Bath , the singer Miss Linley , but he used the £3,000 she had just been given by a disappointed but grateful , rich admirer , to buy a grand house in London 's fashionable Portman Square , and furnish it lavishly . |
| 11 | For the past week she 'd literally been counting the days . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She was still trying to take in the information she had just been given . |
| 14 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 15 | The woman has phoned friends saying she 's in London , but the police have no record of her flying home from Turkey she 's already been questioned by fraud squad detectives . |
| 16 | And on such flimsy grounds she 'd apparently been tried and sentenced . |