Example sentences of "[conj] she have [been] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took little account of time , and was hardly even aware that she had been placed in Lady Merchiston 's old bedchamber . |
| 2 | She stayed away for two weeks , and there were reports that she had been seen in Bath with Sergeant Troy . |
| 3 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 4 | The first statement issued by COPREFA , the armed forces press office , declared that she had been killed in combat and claimed she was a guerrilla combatant who operated under the name of Comandante Lucia . |
| 5 | Shelley was beginning to see that she had been put in a very special place of importance in Miguel 's confidence . |
| 6 | It must mean that she had been mentioned in the will . |
| 7 | She was indeed torpedoed by a German submarine , but that was two years after the claim that she had been sunk in September 1939 . |
| 8 | The housekeeper , French by origin and known as Madame , was one of those fair Nordic or Norman types whose hair and complexion were of a uniformity to suggest that she had been dipped in custard . |
| 9 | He told the jurors they should look for corroboration of the 18-year-old woman 's claim that she had been attacked in the officer 's marked police car . |
| 10 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 11 | But it could be argued that she has been placed in a high turn-over establishment because she possesses an authoritarian style of leadership . |
| 12 | A TEACHER who quit a North-East City Technology College is outraged that she has been used in election literature by one of the CTC 's biggest supporters . |
| 13 | She was also advised that she should continue to try to reduce weight and should not return to her work ( which involved standing all the time ) until she had been seen in the Outpatient Clinic in six weeks time . |
| 14 | He was a powerful , virile man , and she had been left in no doubt as to the physical effect she had on him . |
| 15 | If she 'd been stopped in a car with this level of alcohol in her , she would have lost her licence for a year at least and got a hefty fine . |
| 16 | She was trapped , as helpless as if she 'd been bound in chains . |
| 17 | She felt as if she 'd been dipped in slime . |
| 18 | Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven . |
| 19 | Zambia felt as if SHe 'd been punched in the gut . |
| 20 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 21 | She felt as if she had been kicked in the stomach . |
| 22 | If she had had any talent , if she had been born in another period and perhaps if her spirit had been lodged in the body of a man , she might just have been heroic . |
| 23 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 24 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 25 | And they give a , though she 's not being like , really cheeky , it 's because she 's been living in a culture for four years , where that 's the way they , they sell and buy . |
| 26 | The fact that Margaret had been illegitimate , a war baby conceived between an Italian prisoner of war and an English landgirl , had no bearing on her name , although probably quite a lot to do with Margaret 's lack of maternalism , since she 'd been reared in a children 's home . |
| 27 | How would he seem to be calling her now after she had been entranced in his arms ? |
| 28 | Even after she had been caught in that ruined church with Ginger Higby , that old bitch of a commandant in the women 's ambulance service had n't wanted to lose her . |
| 29 | The undeveloped film was found in her handbag after she 'd been shot in an ambush by Islamic fundamentalists , while on holiday in Egypt a month ago . |
| 30 | The poor woman had died when she had been bombed in the blitz . |