Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has also been involved with the organisation of a few other projects including a National Sleep Out , which aimed to increase public awareness of Aberdeen 's homeless people and Dial-a-Santa which took place at the end of last year . |
| 2 | Pat served for six years on the Executive Committee ; she has also been responsible for arranging the flowers at many important functions . |
| 3 | Buckley says she has never been aware of a problem of discrimination in the company , at least in a corporate sense , ‘ but I think a lot of men found it a problem ’ . |
| 4 | Her most notable contribution to the 1974 election campaign was the promise that the interest rate on mortgages would be limited to 9.5 per cent , and she has never been unfaithful to her mystical attachment to the concept of home-ownership . |
| 5 | Her mother said : ‘ My son , who is two and a half , has slept in the cot before with no problems and she has always been alright in it . |
| 6 | Literally thousands of people have benefited form Nancy 's instruction and she has perhaps been one of the greatest advocates of the Sunday Painter school , encouraging an increase in the popularity of painting as a pastime for people of all ages and from all walks of life . |
| 7 | But now she admitted that she 'd simply been unaffected by them . |
| 8 | Until the 1982 health service dispute , she 'd never been involved in a trade union , nor had she ever gone to any meetings about anything . |
| 9 | After completing the questionnaires , Susan felt that working in a library would not only fit her answers but was one of the things she 'd always been interested in doing . |
| 10 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 11 | She understood that she did not like tunnels , though this was something she had previously been unaware of . |
| 12 | It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day . |
| 13 | She had also been surprised at how easy she had found it to talk to him , about all the private , intimate failures and successes of her life ; fascinated to hear about his problems with the privately owned Wyndham International Banking Corporation , which he had recently taken over from his father . |
| 14 | With the prospect of supporting her grandfather she had somehow been full of confidence about the future . |
| 15 | Not having done very well at school ( not even allowed to sit the Oxbridge exams ) , she had nevertheless been diligent about her piano lessons , and was in fact quite good on the instrument . |
| 16 | She had lately been excited by reports of the exhibition at Bullock 's Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly , London , of Monsieur Jerricault 's Great Picture , 24 feet long by 18 feet high , representing the Surviving Crew of the Medusa French Frigate on the Raft . |
| 17 | Every other sound that she had hitherto been conscious of — the distant bleat of sheep in the field , the wind in the trees , the mewling cry of a hawk far above her — disappeared , vanished from her awareness . |
| 18 | She had apparently been dead for a week . |
| 19 | She had ever been curious about Benedict 's background , and now more so than ever , when everything hinged on his moral claim to Merchiston Lodge . |
| 20 | She then felt reluctant to go downstairs to face the man who had so recently been kissing her bare breasts , so she took extra time to straighten the bed where she had almost been willing to — no , longing to make love with Silas , she amended with a burst of mental honesty . |
| 21 | To tell Luke the truth , somehow force him to accept that she had never been involved with Florian in the way he imagined , might just possibly put an end to his — his persecution of her . |
| 22 | She had never been involved in his business and as it grew , saw considerably less of her husband . |
| 23 | Derek was confident that she had never been involved in anything subversive in her life or , for that matter , anything which was not completely dignified and fully reputable . |
| 24 | The Vale of Blackmoor was her only world , and she had never been far outside the valley . |
| 25 | She had never been close to one before , and it was very big . |
| 26 | Was it true , what Maria said , that she had never been fair to Hester ? |
| 27 | She had never been ashamed of her body before — why should she let him make her feel this way ? |
| 28 | At home she had never been aware of it . |
| 29 | Auntie said she had never been interested in horse-racing , and disapproved of it because of the betting . |
| 30 | Well , she had never been happy with him , so she was relieved . |