Example sentences of "[pron] she have [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had put a point to the unions concerning long-term pay arrangements on which she had neither been informed nor consulted . |
| 2 | On Oct. 9 a special court in Lahore adjourned a hearing against her , at which she had again been present , reportedly to avoid making a ruling before the Oct. 24 elections . |
| 3 | All she knew was that she was turning into McAllister again , Dr Neil 's pert and lively maid , and that this was the haven which she had unconsciously been seeking in the months since Havvie Blaine had assaulted her . |
| 4 | She has striking Italian looks , a model height of five feet ten inches and long slim legs — all attributes which she had n't been taking advantage of . |
| 5 | Two weeks before the end of her trial , Winnie Mandela experienced what commentators treated as a major political setback when she was heavily defeated in elections for the national presidency of the ANC women 's league , which she had earlier been expected to win unchallenged . |
| 6 | She adopted an abrasive stance towards the European Common Market , for which she had never been a strong enthusiast . |
| 7 | At night , she still dreamt of the endless drugged hours she had spent jolting and rolling in the darkness of the car-boot , the hours of motion on land and sea of which she had only been dimly aware . |
| 8 | To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch . |
| 9 | Sometimes very small things can help to preserve an elderly person 's feeling of value and self-esteem , like encouraging her to make some special dish or cake ( for which she has long been praised in the family circle ) once a week , or on birthdays . |
| 10 | When asked what the problem was , her friends told me she had just been assigned to teach in a distant , rural middle school . |
| 11 | In his place the cool , detached Dane who had taken nothing she had n't been prepared to give — and given nothing she had n't been prepared to take . |
| 12 | In his place the cool , detached Dane who had taken nothing she had n't been prepared to give — and given nothing she had n't been prepared to take . |
| 13 | But still the urge to express her feelings tormented her and at last , in defiance of that dislike she had felt on their last meeting , she sat down and wrote to the person to whom she had once been most close , to Mrs Browning . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it awoke an unexpected flood of tenderness towards him in her , because it made him so very human , this man of whom she had once been so deeply in awe and whose power over her still unnerved her when she reflected on the realities of their relationship . |
| 15 | Just being in the arms of this unique person , whom SHe 'd never been absolutely sure SHe could hook , effectively wiped the unpleasant memory from hir mind for the night . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , this is a point on which her novels defy easy assimilation to those of Iris Murdoch or Angus Wilson , with whom she has also been compared . |
| 17 | She was afraid of staying single all her life and everything she had ever been told supported the belief that a woman 's highest ambition was to become a wife and mother . |
| 18 | He could see from her face that that really hurt , and also that it was something she had n't been able to work out satisfactorily for herself . |
| 19 | She understood that she did not like tunnels , though this was something she had previously been unaware of . |
| 20 | She knew about anal sex , but it was something she 'd never been asked to do . |
| 21 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
| 22 | She had wanted to meet the young man again , but now the opportunity had been afforded her she had not been confident enough to accept it . |
| 23 | But now that she came to think of it she had never been out to any sort of meal with John . |
| 24 | On the far long side , his grey form set off against the freshly raked dark tan of the peat floor , Theodora saw what she had clearly been brought to see . |
| 25 | What she had just been through was insane and illogical , but also unambiguous and actual . |
| 26 | Blanche absorbed the implication of what she had just been told : Mills had not betrayed Zbigniew Nowak and so could not have been murdered because of it . |
| 27 | She was indeed inexperienced in teaching RE having been unhappy with what she had hitherto been expected to present . |
| 28 | In 1880 Russia remained what she had often been , the least predictable of the great powers . |
| 29 | She remembered what she 'd just been doing . |
| 30 | His eyes raked mockingly over her dishevelled nakedness , and she shuddered , still caught up in the storm he had unleashed , but horrified , too , to realise what she 'd just been doing . |