Example sentences of "she have been [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokeswoman there said last night : ‘ She has been through a terrible ordeal . |
| 2 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |
| 3 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 4 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 5 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 6 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 7 | If she had been in a similar position she would also have called on the nearest colleague . |
| 8 | She had been like a lazy cat , refusing to wake up properly , a phenomenon that he had known in young girls before . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , so even though she 's been on a self-monitoring programme for several years now I felt that constant professional supervision was necessary , and so did Dr Russell . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She 's been through a terrible ordeal , ’ she told her brother severely , drawing Ellen out of the solar with her . |
| 11 | She 's been in a funny mood this morning . |