Example sentences of "she have been [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.
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1 | The reason she 'd been so reluctant for Alexander Vass to leave had had nothing to do with the man himself . |
2 | In the end she 'd been too good for her lowly position . |
3 | Completely unaccustomed to the hot , humid air — so wet and steamy that it was almost impossible to breathe properly — she 'd been deeply grateful for the air-conditioning in the apartment which — when it was working properly ! — had kept them all relatively cool . |
4 | She had been quite unprepared for his beauty and his otherness . |
5 | Yet she knew it was there , in the background , darkening all her thoughts , rendering her sleepless in the nights following their departure and also confirming something of which she had been dimly aware for a long time . |
6 | Perhaps she had been too old for parenthood , and then it was very sad for a girl to lose her father in her teens . |