Example sentences of "she have [been] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her repertoire includes lieder and oratorios , though she has been most active as an opera singer . |
| 2 | She has been very busy on a visit to Germany . ’ |
| 3 | On the whole she has been more attentive to the requirements of the arts of self-presentation and the requirements of the mass media and public relations than other leaders like Heath , Callaghan , and Foot . |
| 4 | Having won the Cabinet 's acceptance ofthe economic strategy , she has been more concerned with implementation and this appears to have given a greater role to her Policy Unit , members of ‘ think tanks ’ , and ad hoc groups of officials , advisers , and ministers . |
| 5 | She has been highly critical of many established institutions , such as the senior civil service , Foreign Office , Bank of England , universities , and local government . |
| 6 | You can not leave Heather , despite what you feel for me , because she has been so good to you . |
| 7 | She has been so evil with me . ’ |
| 8 | Firstly , although Isabelle had kindled her love for foreign languages by teaching her their own native tongue , at the same time she 'd been strangely reticent about her own life . |
| 9 | She 'd been hopelessly optimistic in supposing she could track Suzie down in the street . |
| 10 | If he 'd been wary of placing too much trust in her , she 'd been openly sceptical about him , right from their first meeting . |
| 11 | She 'd been abominably rude to him since they 'd first met . |
| 12 | And until now she 'd been naïvely pleased with the result . |
| 13 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 14 | She 'd been so obsessed with viewing today 's arrangements from her own position . |
| 15 | She 'd been so relieved at the news of Liz and Owen 's removal from Intensive Care that seeing the other girl 's still , slight figure lying motionless on the hospital bed had been a deep and severe shock . |
| 16 | He was right ; he was better than the other skier she 'd been so impressed by . |
| 17 | The explanation faded into silence when Isabel recalled the way she had spilled water all over her patient because she 'd been so nervous of him . |
| 18 | She 'd been so preoccupied with first the tragedy , and then her concern for the twins ' welfare , that she had n't given any thought to the future . |
| 19 | She 'd been so busy with her own thoughts she 'd forgotten that side of things . |
| 20 | The reason she 'd been so reluctant for Alexander Vass to leave had had nothing to do with the man himself . |
| 21 | She said she was sorry she 'd been so cross about Timothy Gedge . |
| 22 | In the end she 'd been too good for her lowly position . |
| 23 | ‘ Who told you that ? ’ she asked , her voice cracked and full of breath she 'd been too shocked to exhale . |
| 24 | He 'd asked her to wait for him , and although she 'd been too angry at the time to say that she would , she had nevertheless avoided marriage to anyone else despite the many proposals she 'd had . |
| 25 | How could she explain that she 'd been too frightened of the dammed-up emotion she 'd felt in both her mother and father ? |
| 26 | Instead of putting all her efforts into resisting him , she 'd been more concerned about not admitting her love . |
| 27 | She 'd been very positive about that , not just here in the car , but she had said it to me in the bedroom while I was packing her things and she was still in a mentally uninhibited state . |
| 28 | But yesterday morning , when she and the twins had accompanied Ross downtown to a brief business meeting on Wall Street , she 'd been deeply impressed by the dramatic skyscrapers rising like icons to the modern age — representing the excitement and violence of change and , above all , the massive power of money . |
| 29 | Completely unaccustomed to the hot , humid air — so wet and steamy that it was almost impossible to breathe properly — she 'd been deeply grateful for the air-conditioning in the apartment which — when it was working properly ! — had kept them all relatively cool . |
| 30 | How could she have been so pliable in her aunt 's hands ? |