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 July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
3 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |
4 | 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 ? |
5 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | If she had been in a similar position she would also have called on the nearest colleague . |
9 | She had been like a lazy cat , refusing to wake up properly , a phenomenon that he had known in young girls before . |
10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
11 | ‘ She 's been through a terrible ordeal , ’ she told her brother severely , drawing Ellen out of the solar with her . |
12 | ‘ Yeah , and she 's been in a few times since . |
13 | She 's been in a funny mood this morning . |