Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] she have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many times had she come to tuck Lizzy in when she had been small ? |
| 2 | After all , just because she had been unaccompanied at Emma 's house , just because she had accepted his invitation to dinner , did not mean that she was unattached . |
| 3 | He suspected that she had been an embarrassment to the authorities and that , in the conditions which then prevailed , what mattered was whether they wished to have such a person interned and not whether she had been subversive . |
| 4 | She found another bathroom , which was important , because the champagne was acting on her stomach just as she 'd been afraid it would . |
| 5 | She was nervous before stepping onto the set of Delinquents , just as she had been all those years ago when she did the rehearsals for The Henderson Kids . |
| 6 | Muriel held the broad shoulders and was surprised at the strangeness of the proximity , just as she had been surprised at the sight of Delia 's loosened hair some weeks before . |
| 7 | The week had gone quickly because she had been busy . |
| 8 | It was their ritual , ever since she 'd been able to string words together . |
| 9 | Now of course she 's had a tremendous effect on , on fashion knitwear ever since she 's been involved with before . |
| 10 | Adele had looked up at him , not quickly but as quickly as she 'd been able . |
| 11 | She fled home on the underground , scolding herself for being such a coward , it could all be over now if she 'd been sensible . |
| 12 | So far as she 'd been concerned they had been just friends . |
| 13 | In any case , she was too scared to go back to sleep even if she had been able to . |
| 14 | But without her virtue , even if she had been beautiful , she would n't have been worth the weight of her little toe in dross . |
| 15 | Even when she had been widowed young , she had never wanted another man . |
| 16 | It was a dress she 'd bought at Kelly 's urging , even though she 'd been positive she 'd never find occasion to wear it . |
| 17 | Even though she 'd been dead for so long it could sometimes seem that she was still with him , a presence in the next room , someone on the other side of a door who waited and listened but who never stepped through , except when he dreamed . |
| 18 | Being used — as Luke had used her last night — was humiliating , and even though she had been able to turn the tables it had left a bitter after-taste . |
| 19 | She has n't spent so much time up there since she 's been three . |