Example sentences of "[conj] she have [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 2 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 3 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 4 | He confirmed that she had been invited for both the church service and the lunch . |
| 5 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 6 | Checking through her notes , the doctor saw that she had been treated for vaginal thrush on several occasions . |
| 7 | And in Amabel 's experience it had always been the wife who complained of it , Ethel Lord , for instance , fretting herself into a decline , or very nearly , when her husband had taken to spending so much time in Leeds ; Maria Colclough turning to religion because her man emerged so rarely from his counting house ; even strident Lizzie Braithwaite complaining that she had been neglected for the sake of the business . |
| 8 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 9 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 10 | It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone . |
| 11 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 12 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
| 13 | Now that she 's been nominated for an Oscar , it would be natural for there to be competition between them . |
| 14 | Linda Evangelista was brilliantly marketed but there was never quite the attention until she had been established for quite a long time . ’ |
| 15 | Ruth 's Medau training comes to the fore when she plans her class , and she has been commended for her ‘ whole-body ’ movement . |
| 16 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 17 | The strong fingers peeling the nightshirt upwards , the exploring hunger of the hard mouth on her stomach , her breasts , her lips , it felt as if she 'd been waiting for ever for these feelings … |
| 18 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 19 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 20 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 21 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 22 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 23 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 24 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 25 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 26 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 27 | The conditional bail had been granted after she had been arrested for shouting ‘ scab ’ at working miners . |
| 28 | After she had been arrested for playing the two-backed beast with Culpepper — and me , though I was n't caught , but there again that 's another tale — the king 's guards came to take her whilst she was staying at Hampton Court . |
| 29 | Karen had dipped badly in her A-levels and had done two years in a commerce school before she 'd been accepted for her degree course . |
| 30 | That incident so many years ago when she had been punished for the supposed loss of the ring was etched indelibly in her mind . |