Example sentences of "[vb past] she have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed she had been murdered by the Grantley Ripper although as yet no body had turned up . |
| 2 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 3 | Pc Court had threatened to take the force to an industrial tribunal last year alleging sexual discrimination in a case supported by the Police Federation , but Mr Newing agreed she had been disadvantaged after the arbitration service ACAS was brought in . |
| 4 | Jahsaxa flinched with annoyance when she realised she 'd been connected with the Roirbak answering machine again . |
| 5 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |
| 6 | Det Sgt Pat Lewis , of the child protection team , confirmed she had been examined by a doctor and added : ‘ We will be speaking to her in the morning . |
| 7 | A JUDGE was forced to scrap a lengthy criminal trial after a woman juror claimed she had been threatened with the sack . |
| 8 | She had a skullcracker of a headache , and guessed she 'd been opened in several places by knifecuts , branded in others by dollops of fire . |
| 9 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 10 | He guessed she had been named after Lady Irene Nevil 's daughter in Wrenwood . |
| 11 | A post-mortem examination at the time showed she 'd been hit on the head with a blunt instrument . |
| 12 | Her words sliced through Shannon like burning arrows , but only a faint staining of her cheeks showed she 'd been affected in the slightest . |
| 13 | She discovered she 'd been sleeping on her back . |
| 14 | Tony Nelson , defending , told Wirral magistrates David Roger Powney panicked when he heard she had been rushed to hospital . |
| 15 | Her family heard she had been taken to the Regional Command Military camp in Legaspi City . |
| 16 | Ms Jackson , a sales representative , alleged she had been assaulted by a man after a motoring incident on the A74 southbound carriageway . |
| 17 | COPREFA later retracted this statement , recognized she was a human rights worker and decided she had been caught in the cross-fire when she died . |
| 18 | Suitably armed , the Princess felt confident enough to write a long and detailed rejoinder to her irate father-in-law which effectively spelled out the way she felt she had been treated by husband , the Royal Family and their courtiers . |
| 19 | It prompted Diana to speak to a lawyer and write to her father-in-law spelling out the way she felt she had been treated by her husband , the Royal Family and their courtiers . |
| 20 | He was making her act like a gauche schoolgirl — Aurora Blake , who could hold thousands spellbound with the power of her voice , who could mix happily with kings and commoners — stammering apologetically because a man who had wandered unwanted and uninvited into her garden knew she 'd been looking at him ! |
| 21 | They knew she 'd been drinking on the way in . |
| 22 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 23 | But Navratilova knew she had been outplayed by Sukova , a player she had beaten in 25 of 29 earlier meetings . |
| 24 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 25 | She caught her breath , a strange little movement in her face betraying the fact that she thought she had been tricked by him . |
| 26 | The Nefertari was a veteran , it was said , of something between 30 and 40 years on the river ; someone thought she had been built on the hull of a much older Nile steamer , and another that she might be a pharaoh 's reconstituted sun-boat , disinterred , like the others , near the Great Pyramid . |
| 27 | Oliver insisted she had been followed from Fleet Street and that it was likely the police had tapped her office telephone . |
| 28 | Attention was first drawn to them in 1988 when a 17-year-old resident complained she had been held in continuous confinement for seven weeks and forcibly injected with a sedative . |
| 29 | She said she had been threatened with hundreds of pickets if she did not reinstate Miss Owen . |
| 30 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |