Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] she have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 2 | Nervy or not , she was particularly convincing in her role as Olwyn , more so than she had been in previous rehearsals . |
| 3 | Perhaps if she had been seized by orthodox kidnappers , demanding millions of pounds in ransom , it would have been different . |
| 4 | so if she had been told that |
| 5 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 6 | Although he was horribly conscious of his filthy boots , he sought out the supervisor of the office cleaning company by which Mrs. Millings was employed , and explained that she was late only because she had been helping the police to investigate a river tragedy " like a good citizen " . |
| 7 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 8 | When Salomea tried to find another job , she was turned down because she had been given notice from her previous employment . |
| 9 | It was so long since she had been to a party like this . |
| 10 | ‘ Goat stinks , ’ said Camille , for it was not so long since she had been frequently taken by Connie to children 's zoos where these creatures — mostly nannies and kids — were considered suitably sized and disposed to mingle briefly with the children of men . |
| 11 | It had been a deep and tub-like pram , and they had used it to convey her from place to place long after she had been of an age to be confined in such a vehicle . |
| 12 | A few seconds later Susan came bursting in as she had been upstairs when she 'd heard Maggie 's voice . |
| 13 | Me mother used to go in and lie down when she 'd been to the work . |
| 14 | How many times had she come to tuck Lizzy in when she had been small ? |
| 15 | R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with |
| 16 | Frances has been fostering animals at Freshfield Animal Rescue Centre near her home even longer than she 's been at Ashworth . |
| 17 | Leanne 's staying tonight cos she 's been chucked out of her house |
| 18 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 19 | If there is an incident when friends walk away because she has been ordering them around , explain to her why that happened . |
| 20 | After all , just because she had been unaccompanied at Emma 's house , just because she had accepted his invitation to dinner , did not mean that she was unattached . |
| 21 | This is scarcely because she has been neglected . |
| 22 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 23 | It was years since she had ridden a bike too , not since she had been at school and had cycled home each day . |
| 24 | and it what not since she 's been owed |
| 25 | She was aware of a past neither of them had spoken of much — at least , not while she 'd been there . |
| 26 | Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels . |
| 27 | Her eighteen-month jail sentence was reduced on appeal — but not before she had been in prison for six months . ) |
| 28 | She suppressed it quickly and guiltily , but not before she had been rewarded by an equally amused glance from Dr Russell , which had the unfortunate effect of turning all her limbs to jelly at once . |
| 29 | He suspected that she had been an embarrassment to the authorities and that , in the conditions which then prevailed , what mattered was whether they wished to have such a person interned and not whether she had been subversive . |
| 30 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |