Example sentences of "[noun sg] that she have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And the allegation that she had been disloyal to anyone was very firmly refuted . ’ |
| 2 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 3 | The struggle to understand everything showed clearly on her face , and slowly , surely , she found a ray of hope in the mess , something to compensate for the painful discovery that she 'd been ignorant of her own roots . |
| 4 | Vass blithely ignored her charge that she 'd been press-ganged . |
| 5 | THE woman who left her 11-year-old daughter alone in a London flat while she went on holiday to Spain denied last night that she had been heartless or wicked . |
| 6 | Someone who had called on Angy , found her groomed and perfumed and ready to receive a rival , and been moved to uncontrollable violence by the belief that she had been unfaithful ? |
| 7 | Later , rejecting the claim that she has been irresponsible , Murphy says : |
| 8 | It was probably a mercy that she 'd been sick . |
| 9 | She glanced up at the ceiling once , as if in appreciation of the solution to a tough puzzle that she 'd been unable to crack without help ; the tile was still stuck in the open position , and Charlie was in no state to clamber up there and fix it . |
| 10 | Writing it reinforced her conviction that she had been right to stay in Florence . |
| 11 | I did , despite the fact that she had been unfaithful . |
| 12 | It was a look so burning and intense that it had left her fearful and uncertain , and it was only by immersing herself in paperwork that she had been able to recapture some of her habitual calm . |