Example sentences of "[conj] she have [be] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heavy lunch and the wine had made her sleepy , and she took to her bed the minute they returned , only awakening when the hunger pangs assaulted her stomach , to see that she had been asleep for over three hours . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 4 | He went on a while about the various tests but where he came out was that she 'd been dead for at least five days , and seven was perfectly possible . |
| 5 | She 's absolutely livid that she 's been freezing for no reason at all . |
| 6 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 7 | He gave her so much pleasure when she was with him and she had been lonely for so long . |
| 8 | Oh yes , keep it in the family oh dear she was my youngest sister too and she 's been dead for , oh bloody hell , she was eighty six when she died , how long 's that ago , a few years , I 'm the baby of the family and me brother 's the next one , and he 's eight eighty five now , is he ? |
| 9 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 10 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 11 | Had he not been she might have telephoned him instead of Nick , when she had been desperate for company . |
| 12 | She felt as though she 'd been asleep for about five minutes ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There was a sort of thirstiness about Julia 's immersion in the conversation , as though she 'd been parched for a long time . |