Example sentences of "she have been [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happens if a customer complains that she has been given the wrong change ? |
| 2 | She has been spreading the Comic Relief message since she went to see a Comic Relief project for homeless young people in London two years ago . |
| 3 | A hard-working Society member , for many years a member of the National Display Team and nore recently of the Surrey and Sussex team , she has been putting the latter through their paces for ‘ In the Pink ’ , the ball item first performed at last year 's Reunion . |
| 4 | When the same scene happens night after night , his mother realizes that she has been doing the wrong thing , so instead she puts him to bed no matter how long or hard he cries . |
| 5 | She has been voted the best assistant in the store by her colleagues , and goes on to the next leg of the competition , the district semi-finals on April 10th . |
| 6 | Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing . |
| 7 | Since she had been working more or less at full stretch before she 'd been given the extra work to do , there was only one way she could fit more work into her day , and that was by working late at the office , then going home with a bulging briefcase . |
| 8 | She was just wondering if she 'd been given the wrong one when she realised that the door was n't locked . |
| 9 | She 'd been set the huge task by Christian Aid on behalf of a family who fled to the camp from neighbouring war-torn Mozambique . |
| 10 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 11 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 12 | She was so pleased to learn that Barbara Coleman was eager to talk to her again , and that she had been given the perfect reason for spending part of her day revelling in Chagall 's colour , that she smiled as she cut inland towards Maurin 's gallery . |
| 13 | She rang down to the reception , and asked tetchily whether she had been given the correct room number . |
| 14 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |
| 15 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 16 | She had been reviewing the previous week on her walk to the rectory . |