Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] she have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom and Francis remained quite friendly until — ’ She changed her mind about continuing , which made Delia Sutherland more interested than she had been . |
| 2 | At first they seemed brighter , smaller and cruder than she had been led to expect by the polite reproductions . |
| 3 | That once she had been capable of responding ? |
| 4 | ‘ She is not any more upset than she has been . |
| 5 | She was now 15lb ( 7kg ) heavier than she had been in her single days ; she felt tired and run down , and suffered with migraines , abdominal bloating and increasing premenstrual symptoms including irritability , nervous tension , depression , tearfulness , confusion , weight gain , sore breasts and insomnia . |
| 6 | Relieved because she has been afraid that somehow it would have disappeared , she pulls out her key , but the driver 's door is unlocked . |
| 7 | The following morning , accompanied at Aunt Emily 's command by a trembling Lyddy who was sure she was going to the very mouth of Hades , Alexandra was driven out to Trelorne , dressed very much as she had been when she trespassed along the shore . |
| 8 | It had not been fully dark when she had been flying . |
| 9 | Was she really more ill than she 'd been led to suppose ? |
| 10 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 11 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 12 | When he asked if he should fly out her answer had been a firm and uncompromising ‘ No ! ’ but now , as she glanced at Alain , she was not too sure if she had been wise . |
| 13 | Her grandmother , his elder sister , would have been seventy if she had been still living , and there were several years between them . |
| 14 | A parliamentary candidate has branded a football club as sexist because she 's been barred from a men-only dinner . |
| 15 | In the morning , Gabriel could not be sure whether she had been there or not . |
| 16 | Searching through her mind the only emotions she could recreate from that time were a dizzying pleasure that someone as sophisticated , cosmopolitan , successful and confident as Doctor Anthony Gillingham should appear to want anyone as dull and provincial as she had been and a kind of a triumph that she could present Comfort with Anthony 's declaration of love . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought so too , ’ Jenna murmured , trying to get her agitated breathing under control , quite sure that this was doing her no good at all when she had been told to go very carefully for a while . |
| 18 | It had seemed a good idea at the time , a bit of expensive and unusual fun with some of her friends , and sure , she had been intrigued when she had been told that she should beware of her fiery nature 's setting alight a situation which would become frighteningly uncontrollable , but that was three days ago . |
| 19 | Things had been ticking along nicely between them , just as long as she 'd been prepared to forget that she wanted more out of the relationship than a roll in the hay and a bright ‘ cheerio ’ at the airport . |
| 20 | As long as she 'd been fighting him there had still been a hope that she might eventually emerge the victor . |
| 21 | For Clarissa Grey , the summer had been memorable because she had been consistently happy . |
| 22 | So far she had felt very little because she had been well prepared , but she did not have the necessary audacity to simply whisk the cloth away . |
| 23 | She was contributing more than she had been able to before to her mother 's household expenses . |
| 24 | Would he have loved her more if she had been a son ? , |
| 25 | She 'd only been angry because she 'd been so unaccountably shaken by those few seconds in his arms . |
| 26 | Mr Rowse refused to see Rhoda any more because she 'd been seen talking to Young Catholics Against Witchcraft . |
| 27 | She felt wickedly ashamed because she had been so cruel . |
| 28 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 29 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 30 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |