Example sentences of "[subord] she have be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 2 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 3 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 4 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 5 | For some reason she was more stricken by the loss of the letters than she had been by the news of John 's and Angela 's deaths . |
| 6 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 7 | all of them so when her class came up , cos she 'd been with the class right from nursery and when she put into this you know , with the double third year , cos they go upstairs for third and fourth year and they really do classes below she did n't know anything in the class ! |
| 8 | I think she thought I was crying at firs , I think I might have been , but then she started laughing too , with her face all twisted to one side as if she 'd been to the dentist , and she kept gasping and saying , " Ooh , it hurts ! |
| 9 | If she 'd been in the kid 's place , she 'd have run off by now and left them all to it . |
| 10 | It was as if she had been beyond the sky . |
| 11 | I mean because she 's been on the |
| 12 | Her teeth gritted together to stop herself screaming , she rocked backwards and forwards like a child , oblivious to the drizzle that had begun while she 'd been in the kitchen with Gwen as disjointed sentences jostled in her brain for supremacy . |
| 13 | While she 'd been in the galley Fen had fallen asleep . |
| 14 | While she had been in the shower the bedroom door had drifted open a few more inches , and if Carson were to cross the lounge on the far side of the hallway he 'd probably be able to see her ; but there was still something wrong , and it was obvious that an analysis of her appearance would be pointless . |
| 15 | Donna guessed that it was more than two months since she had been to the cottage . |
| 16 | Just when she had been on the brink of despair , one of her rich customers had given her a handsome order . |
| 17 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 18 | With a wardrobe comprising jeans and sweatshirts , a make-up bag containing an eight-year-old foundation and a hairstyle that had n't changed in ten years ( husband Steve never noticed when she 'd been to the hairdressers ) , Juliana felt in a rut ‘ I feel I 'm 30 going on 40 and would love to look more stylish , but I just do n't know where to start . ’ |
| 19 | Me mother used to go in and lie down when she 'd been to the work . |
| 20 | when she 's been at the school gate , she comes |
| 21 | Be more ready to say sorry ; she will apologize when she 's been in the wrong . |
| 22 | The iron grey , Tero , got by because her coat was almost black , but Maldita was so dazzlingly white , except for a sprinkling of rust-brown freckles on her belly , that she looked as though she 'd been through the car wash . |
| 23 | Unlike Pete he smelled nice — Sally thought it was Old Spice — and when he pressed his hips against hers she was excited by the sensations it aroused , not revolted as she had been with the Teddy Boy at the youth club dance . |
| 24 | She would n't be as easy to vanquish as she had been outside the Feelgood Saloon . |
| 25 | Theda had hardly heard her , overwhelmed as she had been by the thoughtfulness of the unknown gentleman . |
| 26 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |