Example sentences of "she [vb -s] [been] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 2 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 3 | She 's been away all week |
| 4 | So what just i , well my eldest daughter away and she 's been away this month twenty six years . |
| 5 | ‘ No , she 's been here all night . |
| 6 | She 's been dead four years . |
| 7 | Well she 's probably tired , she 's been out two nights in a row . |
| 8 | Cos I say she 's been there thirty years so she must do alright , everybody knows |