Example sentences of "[conj] she have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behavioural precursors of schizophrenia included a poor emotional rapport in the psychiatric interview , and parental observations that he or she had been a passive baby , with a short attention span in childhood , and often impolite behaviour , while school reports often noted that the child was isolated , uneasy about criticism , easily upset , and disturbed the class ( Parnas et al. , 1982 ) . |
| 2 | She did not even try to prevent my journey , although she has been a perfect tyrant these many weeks , making me keep my bed ! |
| 3 | ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was . |
| 4 | Personally , I think it was a merciful release both for my aunt and for my Uncle Félix , seeing that she had been a helpless invalid for so long . |
| 5 | Even in death , some members of the Glencairn family could not forget that she had been a commoner and objected to her burial in the vault . |
| 6 | She was highly delighted , especially when she learned that she had been the only woman called for interview ; she had been certain that the job would go to one of the male applicants . |
| 7 | Guilty that she had been the lucky one . |
| 8 | She looked behind and concentrated on speeding backwards down the track , giving silent thanks that she had been the last to arrive . |
| 9 | It had never counted for anything that she 'd been the innocent victim , that she 'd had no control over the events which had shaped her life — she 'd carried the burden with her , locked into her soul , and at least that way she 'd felt relatively safe . |
| 10 | Dear God , she was nothing but skin and bone , and she 'd been a tiny slip of a thing to start with . |
| 11 | Her mum would never had done anything so untidy or indiscreet , and she 'd been a Tory all her life . |
| 12 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 13 | He had once been the leader and she had been the unquestioning follower , but all that had changed now . |
| 14 | It turned out that she and her husband were experts on reincarnation and ran a sort of reincarnation centre in Switzerland and she had been an Egyptian princess — before , you know — and written books about it . |
| 15 | I can talk to her in a way I could n't before and she 's been a great help over the past year . |
| 16 | She has designed the most wonderful costumes for me and she 's been a good friend . |
| 17 | She has a dental appointment this afternoon and she 's been a little bit nervous about it . |
| 18 | If she had been a religious person she would have put it down to retribution for her sins , but she had lost whatever faith she had had in her years as the Madam of Dublin 's most fashionable brothel . |
| 19 | Still , she thought , bracing her shoulders , if she had been a real mother she would have had to endure many such problems with a teenage daughter . |
| 20 | In any case , even if she had been a skilled charmer it was not possible to allure somebody who slashed back at you like a master swordsman and drove the point in . |
| 21 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 22 | If she had been an ordinary teacher , trying to teach an ordinary sedentary subject like history or Latin , she would have been mercilessly flouted and mocked , but as it was she managed to get by . |
| 23 | It was n't IMP 's fault , or hers , that he had started at Jerez in third position , but she 'd been a convenient whipping-boy for his suspicions . |
| 24 | I know she is old and wo n't last forever , but she has been a good and loyal friend to me and I will stand by her . |
| 25 | Whereas before she had been a rough-and-ready Italian peasant , flashing with high spirits , now she thought a little about how she seemed to others and tempered her boisterous good humour . |
| 26 | When she had been a tiny child , and Fenna had still been a small , manageable and undemanding dragon she had , often spoken of him , to her mother who had grinned , to her grandmother who had smiled , and to her schoolteachers and friends , who had laughed indulgently . |
| 27 | He held her against him , nursing her as though she had been a small child , while looking down into her face . |
| 28 | Just as she had been a conscientious dancer , she now became an equally conscientious needlewoman . |