Example sentences of "[that] she have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | On Jan. 31 , 1990 , Thatcher admitted that she had been misled about the extent of the subversion campaign , while on Feb. 7 the House of Commons select committee on defence announced that it was to hold an inquiry into the MOD 's handling of the affair . |
2 | She took little account of time , and was hardly even aware that she had been placed in Lady Merchiston 's old bedchamber . |
3 | Mrs. Morgan testified that she had been dragged by her husband from the bedroom which she shared with her small son . |
4 | Flavia managed to recall that she had been asked to dinner and that the time was eight . |
5 | This happened to our Corporal Jane , who arrived back in camp after a brief visit to one of the neighbouring air fields to find that she had been posted to the Met Office at Group Headquarters , Huntingdon , and the corporal there , Rosemary Hilton , had received a reciprocal posting to Bourn . |
6 | She stayed away for two weeks , and there were reports that she had been seen in Bath with Sergeant Troy . |
7 | As Lou 's story progressed , however , it emerged that she had been living with Rick for several months and had high hopes of becoming engaged to him herself . |
8 | It had been no coincidence that she had been called to the phone in the weighing room . |
9 | There were stories that she had been eaten by wild animals , but John Ward did n't believe it . |
10 | Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood . |
11 | He confirmed that she had been invited for both the church service and the lunch . |
12 | He always thought that she had been wronged by Ipuky . ’ |
13 | With a start , he saw that the girl in black underwear was slumped , dead , across a couch and that she had been strangled with a scarf , which was still knotted around her neck . |
14 | Mrs Johnston made a claim to an industrial tribunal that she had been a victim of sex discrimination ; but the Secretary of State issued a certificate ( which the relevant statute said was ‘ conclusive ’ ) that she had been dismissed on grounds of national security . |
15 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
16 | He was inclined to believe her : her anger was a natural reaction to his accusation that she had been prying into data which was not her concern . |
17 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
18 | Kenya 's Chief Magistrate , Joseph Mango , ruled on Oct. 27 , 1989 , at the inquest of a British tourist , Julie Ward , whose body was found in the Masai Mara game reserve in September 1988 , that she had been the victim of " foul play by persons unknown " , contrary to previous official claims that she had been killed by wild animals [ see p. 36917 ] . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Checking through her notes , the doctor saw that she had been treated for vaginal thrush on several occasions . |
21 | She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium . |
22 | He studied her a moment , remembering what her cousin , Yin Wu Tsai had said : that she had been born with a woman 's body and yet a man 's soul . |
23 | If it was being pointed out to her that she had been born to a life of political responsibility and not simply pleasure by one member of the powerful and able house of Guise in France , the message was being reinforced from Scotland by another : her mother , Mary of Guise . |
24 | An unknown peasant girl from Lorraine , Joan of Arc , persuaded the dauphin that she had been sent by God to raise the siege . |
25 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
26 | In Rourke v Barton [ 1982 ] CLY 793 the plaintiff 's general damages took into account the fact that she had been prevented from nursing her terminally ill husband . |
27 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
28 | He further found that she had been lulled into a sense of false security by the hospital staff and been misinformed as to the availability and effect of alternative procedures . |
29 | It was even claimed that she had been poisoned by an African wife by whom Maclean was credited with having had several children . |
30 | 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 . |