Example sentences of "she have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
2 | She even managed to convince the man that she 'd been sent by Roman to inspect the goods . |
3 | Mina said Gustav said she 'd been killed by Allied planes . |
4 | Even now , of course , her mother would deny that she 'd been driven by physical needs — she still insisted on living the lie that hers had been a love-story doomed to disaster . |
5 | Oxford Crown Court heard today that she 'd been subjected to repeated indecent assaults by her mother 's ex-boyfriend at their home in the Wantage area between 1985 and 1987 . |
6 | She had been indicted on numerous corruption charges since her return to the Philippines , as the government continued to attempt to recover some of the millions of dollars which she and her husband allegedly looted from the country during their years in power . |
7 | There were stories that she had been eaten by wild animals , but John Ward did n't believe it . |
8 | Miss Lowe had become very ill , her blood sugar level had fallen so low it was unrecordable in a test , and in hospital she had been diagnosed as suffering insulin-induced hypoglycaemia , lack of sugar in the blood . |
9 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
10 | Kenya 's Chief Magistrate , Joseph Mango , ruled on Oct. 27 , 1989 , at the inquest of a British tourist , Julie Ward , whose body was found in the Masai Mara game reserve in September 1988 , that she had been the victim of " foul play by persons unknown " , contrary to previous official claims that she had been killed by wild animals [ see p. 36917 ] . |
11 | Checking through her notes , the doctor saw that she had been treated for vaginal thrush on several occasions . |
12 | It was wild and erratic , as though she had been writing under severe emotional strain . |
13 | She had been moving in large ellipses , crossing and recrossing her path in a complicated pattern . |
14 | She had been dressed in bridal white , walking up the aisle of a church — towards Hugh . |
15 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
16 | She slipped off the edge of the bed as if she had been injected with new life . |
17 | She had been assisted on humanitarian grounds for long enough and her allegations ‘ came forth when the assistance ceased ’ , it said . |
18 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
19 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
20 | After the depressing makeshifts to which she had been reduced by British rationing , the sensation of wonderful materials against her skin was almost as pleasing as the vendeuse 's comments about ‘ Madame 's wonderful figure ’ and striking face . |
21 | She had been tortured with electric shocks — as had every teenager I met who had been detained during the township unrest . |
22 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
23 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
24 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
25 | Perhaps if she had been seized by orthodox kidnappers , demanding millions of pounds in ransom , it would have been different . |
26 | As though she had been doused in cold water , she stiffened and moved away . |
27 | Attention was first drawn to them in 1988 when a 17-year-old resident complained she had been held in continuous confinement for seven weeks and forcibly injected with a sedative . |
28 | She had been held in high esteem by numerous people who all wanted to pay their respect . |
29 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
30 | She had been , it seemed , to endless dinners , parties and weddings on her own , she had been spotted at local cinemas with friends , sitting in the stalls alongside ordinary members of the public , and she had been seen on the town , at pop concerts , and in restaurants , with handsome young men . |