Example sentences of "her [noun] have been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her employers had been in general the aspiring mothers of young daughters of tradesmen — the honest working citizens whom her father would have disparagingly stigmatised as ‘ cits ’ — hoping that a little of Theda 's quality might rub off on their uncouth girls to help them to an advantageous marriage . |
| 2 | It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain . |
| 3 | Her remark had been in bad taste , she acknowledged , but that was no reason for him to lay into her with yet another string of personal insults , all dished out in that patronising way that got her blood heated to boiling-point . |
| 4 | Her husband had been to all those places shortly before his death . |
| 5 | Her father had been in bleak despair , and Caroline had been dispatched to a childless relative for the duration of the trauma . |