Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] she have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life . |
| 2 | She shouted her innermost feelings about the hurt and anger she felt towards her mother who had ill-treated her a great deal when she had been young and in her mother 's care . |
| 3 | Storm or no storm , she could no more have returned to the inn than she had been able to return penitent to the bosom of her family six long years ago , when the same stigma would have been laid to her then as had been laid to her now . |
| 4 | She probably knew too that they had been none too fond of Granny when she 'd been alive . |
| 5 | She did n't want to understand him , but heated recognition rippled through her as she stared at his mouth , as unwillingly fascinated by its sensual curve as she had been six years ago , when all her breathlessly adored heroes had suddenly become prosaic and petty with the advent of the man from Hong Kong . |
| 6 | She 's made me angry with her anger , and then turned it around so that I 'm eaten up with guilt because she 's been ill and I have n't noticed , and now she 's taking the blame on herself and making me feel worse than ever . |
| 7 | Wishing desperately that she were able to defend her grandfather , but knowing that to explain would only cause more trouble until she 'd been able to speak with his mother , and fervently wishing she had locked her door when she 'd come up to bed , Ellie said tiredly , ‘ I do n't know why . |
| 8 | What crass hypocrisy , pretending to worry about her career when she had been instrumental in its destruction ! |
| 9 | With a faint , elusive smile , she recalled a similar sort of feeling when she had yearned after the paperboy when she 'd been fourteen . |
| 10 | One mother claimed : ‘ She would not have said such a thing if she had been married . |
| 11 | She would have reacted in exactly the same way if she had been stone-cold sober and standing in a bare room under a fluorescent light . |
| 12 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
| 13 | Joan Durbeyfield , watching , wondered for the first time if she had been right in encouraging Tess to go . |
| 14 | She 's got a bruise on her arm like she 's been ten rounds with Dempsey … and it 's all your fault . ’ |
| 15 | She had n't been to an art class since she had been married . |