Example sentences of "but she have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her family were farmers , but she had been sent by her employer to learn the finer points of cuisine and household management from the master chef and the housekeeper at the Savoy . |
| 2 | Shelley was n't usually violent , but she had been tested beyond what she thought was right . |
| 3 | But she had been forbidden by her mother to have anything to do with her Pascoe cousins , and she was sure Tristram was under the same veto as far as she was concerned ; and for a long time — years — she had never even spoken a word to him . |
| 4 | But she had been battling against these odds for five hours , so perhaps her judgement was a little warped . |
| 5 | Not only had she failed to recapture her budgie , but she had been accused of stealing apples and brought disgrace upon the Pack ! |
| 6 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 7 | ‘ But she has been caged inside the Grail Castle for the last twenty years . ’ |
| 8 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 9 | But she 's been approached by the gutter press to sell her story of her life with me and I 've had to intercept certain envelopes that have been sent in . |
| 10 | Geoffrey is recuperating from er er an operation on his back , and Barbara , although not here this morning , hopefully may well be here this afternoon , but she 's been incapacitated by a fall which er , broke her leg . |
| 11 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |