Example sentences of "she have [adv] been a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has also been a Governor and one time Chairman of the Reigate School of Art & design . |
| 2 | She has previously been a youth worker and trainer in both the statutory and voluntary sectors . |
| 3 | She has now been a ticket collector for more than 15 years and has won a radio and a newspaper award for her personality and popularity with passengers . |
| 4 | Although Monica was brought up in London , she has always been a country girl at heart . |
| 5 | She had n't deserved their kindness , their good wishes — she 'd hardly been a boon companion of late . |
| 6 | She had n't been a patient for over twenty years , since she 'd had the barrage of undignified tests and minor operations that had led to nothing but disappointment . |
| 7 | Daphne felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy ’ ‘ The letters show beyond doubt that Daphne had an affair with the American actress Gertrude Lawrence' |
| 8 | She felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy . ’ |
| 9 | She had n't been a lad for a couple of years now , but she knew the routine . |
| 10 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 11 | Instead , she had not been a burden , either in my mind or , more importantly , in her own . |
| 12 | She had also been a builder before coming to the school and ended up doing most of the work . |
| 13 | In the last ten years she had also been a magistrate , and had become chairman of the Committee of Magistrates . |
| 14 | Grace Bird , whom he had worked with before and of whom he was fond , spent most nights up at the hospital knitting in the waiting-room while Dotty ministered to poor old Dickie St Ives , and although he respected Mary Deare as a performer — she was possibly the best Peter since Nina Boucicault — she had never been a chum . |
| 15 | She had never been a snob in the unpleasant sense of the word , but she had always set great store by Father 's material success , and later by my having been to Oxford and then on my becoming a doctor . |
| 16 | She had always said she had never been a shop-girl and she was n't going to start now . |
| 17 | She had never been a Bonapartist , yet that distaste had not made it any easier for her to leave France and follow an army that must fight against her countrymen . |
| 18 | It should n't ; she had never been a woman to give a damn about other people 's opinions . |
| 19 | Eugénie had not long been an Empress , but she had always been a grandee of Spain , with all that implied in pride and good breeding . |
| 20 | There was , she found , a certain satisfaction to be got from standing behind a counter ; she had always been a customer , at the receiving end , until now . |
| 21 | She 's ancient , and sexless the way the very old and the very young are , but she 's still been a woman , and I resent that , for my own good reason . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's always been a star . |