Example sentences of "she have [been] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) The character in this closeup is speaking direct to camera , so she has been placed centrally in frame . |
| 3 | She 'd been summoned there for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of £14.52 . |
| 4 | She 'd been sent there for contempt of court by Essex magistrates when she refused to answer questions about her personal finances in a poll tax case . |
| 5 | Sorry , I should explain to the committee that I was informed that the secretary who normally does the minutes for the half past one was sick , and had , she 'd been sent home by her doctor at lunch time , so I came back from lunch and had to come straight into committee , and I do apologize if I have missed bits of paper or whatever , I 've gathered up everything I could , but that might well be one of the things that I 've left behind . |
| 6 | She 'd been scooped ignominiously into her rescuer 's arms and carried with ease to the quayside . |
| 7 | But he should have realised she 'd been carried away by the atmosphere , and the unexpected potency of the aquavit . |
| 8 | She 'd been taken completely by surprise , and fright added to her bewilderment . |
| 9 | He saw her dust devil from a long way away , and knew that she had been led here by her own dreams , by the pull of the moon . |
| 10 | I guessed that she had been blown far from her oasis , and now there was no landmark other than the wheelbarrow , not a tree , not a blade of grass , not a ripple on the plain , nor a rock bigger than my fist . |
| 11 | Later she worked out that she had been kept underground for four months . |
| 12 | Probably she had been kept late by whatever it was she was doing and had decided to leave it until the morning . |
| 13 | She had been sent away to school soon after this , so she had not noticed the beginning of the gradual retrenchment which had resulted in extreme economy . |
| 14 | Thérèse knew that she had been sent away from her parents at the age of two months , to be fed by Rose , that she had lived with Rose for sixteen months . |
| 15 | She stripped it angrily off again , and put back the sweat shirt , and with it a feeling of appropriateness and even virtue , as if she had been tempted briefly by the forbidden . |
| 16 | My billetor Mrs Webster told me that she had been employed there before her marriage and ‘ printed registered envelopes in two sizes for ten years , and liked the work ’ . |
| 17 | Coughing and spluttering , she had been dragged upstairs by Agnes Diggory . |
| 18 | It was as though she had been hit hard in the stomach . |
| 19 | She had been hit violently on the back of the head with a heavy weapon . |
| 20 | Although Blanche had been sad standing there in Mother 's empty flat , she had been overtaken then by the same feeling she sensed come over her in the interrogation room that night after Taczek had left . |
| 21 | She had been spirited away by the Poison Dwarf . |
| 22 | This was only partly true : but for her pock-marked skin she would have been much sought after : as it was she had been pursued more through calculation than desire . |
| 23 | But , like the others , she 's been corralled here by one slightly harassed-looking comedienne rapidly becoming better known for her serious stance on food safety . |
| 24 | And when she 's been confined there for days you sometimes have n't bothered with a towel . |
| 25 | She 's been hurt enough with poor old Judd getting killed in that wretched accident . ’ |