Example sentences of "her [noun sg] have [been] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her response had been a spate of anxious letters which he had let accumulate in his locker . |
| 2 | I saw that she still wore an engagement ring , but she told me very quickly that her fiancé had been a bomber pilot and he was dead , and it was not the same man she had been engaged to when she joined up . |
| 3 | ‘ Something like that , ’ Now was not the time to suggest to this woman that her husband had been a blackmailer as well as a thief . |
| 4 | Said her husband had been a member for years . ’ |
| 5 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 6 | Her father had been a history master at the local grammar school and Dotty had kept house for the old man until his death , when she sold their home , bringing some of the furniture , all the books , four cats , two dogs and a collection of medicinal herbs to her new home . |
| 7 | He had been a violent man and her father had been a man even more violent , it was a pity they had ever met . |
| 8 | Her Father had been a District Officer in N. Nigeria in the 1920's , and she gave us letters ; a diary ; some amazing old photographs and a telegram ; and , perhaps best of all , the mementoes of Piccin , the baby leopard reared by the family and then given to Edinburgh Zoo in 1929 . |
| 9 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 10 | I wanted to dig him in the ribs and tell him that Mrs F was the last of twelve children in her family and her father 'd been a maintenance man on the railways . |
| 11 | She ate there often ; and since her grandmother had been a gentleman 's cook , she ate well . |
| 12 | When he asked if he should fly out her answer had been a firm and uncompromising ‘ No ! ’ but now , as she glanced at Alain , she was not too sure if she had been wise . |
| 13 | And you can imagine it , if her mother has been a lady 's maid or some such . |