Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [verb] [prep] her " in BNC.

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1 Ann 's other children are David , 24 , and 14-year-old Tracy , who has been badly affected by her sisters ' convictions .
2 A YOUNG British woman has been savagely murdered by her lover while working on a kibbutz in Israel .
3 It has been especially adapted by her father to take the strain of the amount of money she always collects .
4 A young woman has been sexually assaulted in her own home by a burglar .
5 ANOTHER schoolgirl has been sexually attacked on her paper round , five days after a 14-year-old was raped .
6 And she has been so taken by her findings she has put them all down on paper .
7 He 'd been so flattered by her unflagging attention , her unflagging efforts to please him , that he did n't have a clue who she was .
8 The daughter of Storm Bird has enjoyed a formative career typical of Luca Cumani 's juveniles , having been heavily nursed on her debut , over course and distance , before showing the benefit on subsequent outings , at Yarmouth and Goodwood .
9 A Darlington woman wrote to Mr Tempest at his Wakefield home saying George had been best man at her wedding in 1947 and lived in Pierremont Road .
10 The Liverpool tribunal heard that Mrs Mawdsley , of Southport , could not have children and that her sister Kimi had been successfully impregnated with her eggs .
11 Evidently the garden had been badly neglected during her ten days ' absence .
12 He described how L. had been physically abused by her mother and step-father and he also described his concerns regarding the mother as a parent .
13 Many commentators interpreted Aquino 's action as an attempt to revive her reputation as a populist and to distance herself from the charges of nepotism , corruption and incompetence which had been increasingly directed against her government by critics from both the right and the left .
14 Yesterday , as they had chatted , the model had been continually fussing with her mane of black curls , or admiring her long finger nails , or smoothing down the skirt of her grey suede suit .
15 And , in an argument utterly characteristic of the mercantilist view of a conflict-ridden world , Norris raised the bogey of the old rival France ; he claimed that France 's naval power had been so strengthened by her own involvement in the slave trade that if Britain discontinued it not only would her commercial prosperity decline but she would lose naval predominance .
16 Laura blinked , realising that she had been so buried in her own thoughts that she 'd missed what Carole had been saying .
17 She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself .
18 She had been totally engrossed in her thoughts , but her body must have switched on to autodrive because she had managed to eat the food on her plate without really tasting it , and had probably contributed to the conversation without even being aware of what she was saying .
19 Her eyebrows had been severely plucked in her youth , never to return .
20 Maisie had been more affected by her mother 's death than most people thought possible .
21 Melanie and the dog , who had been quietly sitting beneath her chair observing all this , went to join them .
22 He says : ‘ She seemed a happy person on the surface but underneath she had been deeply affected by her parents ’ divorce . ’
23 Her outlook had been considerably broadened by her theatrical experiences .
24 It had been long planned in her mind .
25 In August 1991 she disclosed to her older half-sister that she had been sexually abused by her father .
26 When she had been at college she had socialised in plenty and had had her fair share of boyfriends , Ashley reflected , as they drove along , but since then her energies had been single-mindedly channelled into her career .
27 At a corner table , with her back turned towards them , sat a woman in black , apparently doing some accounts , and surrounded by dusty furniture ; perhaps she had been cruelly deserted on her wedding day , and had sat there ever since , refusing to have anything touched .
28 ‘ She 's been so conditioned by her husband that she instinctively kowtows to any man who says ‘ boo ’ to her . ’
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