Example sentences of "[conj] her [noun sg] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only sign that anyone had ever occupied it was the flattened grass beneath the tree , where her blanket had been . |
| 2 | She was putting her mouth where her hand had been , sucking him into her . |
| 3 | The street shelter had been hit and Ruby had been dug out to see a crater where her house had been and fires burning fiercely everywhere she looked . |
| 4 | There had been a month or so where her face had been seen almost daily on TV : they had not yet quite forgotten . |
| 5 | For Angela Allen had to abandon her vigil at the bedside of 10-month-old Laura in a Birmingham hospital to return to her St Helens home where her husband had been found dead in bed . |
| 6 | Ann is leaving her home in Haslemere this February for a new life in Caracas , Venezuela where her husband has been posted . |
| 7 | To reach her father 's business , she had to go two stops on the Underground further than for her father 's house , or her mother 's well , where her mother had been . |
| 8 | Her forehead was unnaturally white where her fringe had been drawn back . |
| 9 | The selection of a prospective parliamentary candidate shall not be regarded as completed until the name of the member selected has been placed before a meeting of the National Executive Committee , and his or her selection has been duly endorsed . |
| 10 | Following the menopause , hair texture becomes very coarse and if a woman has a predisposition to genetic hair loss , or her hair has been thinning , this can be a crucial time . |
| 11 | Apparently that imperious woman , Lady Nancy Wyndham , felt that her youngest son was marrying well beneath him , although her husband had been very kind and friendly . |
| 12 | Although Emily knew that her friend had been manipulative , she wondered whether she herself had been selfish , and should have forgotten about the loan . |
| 13 | She suspected that her friend had been more ill than she admitted . |
| 14 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 15 | She did n't want them to know that her life had been quite a privileged one . |
| 16 | Isobel began to feel that her life had been the wrong way round , that Africa had been no training at all , with its comparatively easy , impersonal requirement of Christian love , for these savagely difficult demands for daughterly love . |
| 17 | She knew then that her secret had been well kept . |
| 18 | The chances are that her shock has been compounded by an unexpectedly extreme reaction . |
| 19 | The faculty argued that her treatment had been exactly the same as that of any other applicant , regardless of his or her race or colour , who sought to join the bar . |
| 20 | Why was he insisting that her behaviour had been dishonourable ? |
| 21 | Having investigated , she found that her luggage had been unpacked , her night-wear and toilet things put in their appropriate places , and her clothes hung neatly in the walk-in wardrobe . |
| 22 | She felt that her success had been very much due to the ‘ enterprise society ’ . |
| 23 | It seemed to her that her heart had been crushed in metal hands , icy cold and shining . |
| 24 | Clare noticed that her hair had been cropped shorter than before , so that it was almost like fur on her head . |
| 25 | She knows nothing , she insists , and was ‘ shocked ’ when the police pounded on her door in the middle of the night to tell her that her ex-husband had been killed . |
| 26 | David Pipe , the Jockey Club 's Director of Public Affairs , would not comment on suggestions that Her Honour had been administered a fast-acting tranquiliser . |
| 27 | Though she clearly had made him angry , Constance knew that her decision had been right . |
| 28 | The Headmistress at St Mary 's , Geraldine Keegan said she was delighted that her school had been selected to provide a delegate for the Brussels event . |
| 29 | It came almost as a shock to realize that her night had been peaceful — there had been no dreams , no nightmares , and the bottle by her bed remained untouched . |
| 30 | Ianthe was sure it must mean that her uncle had been unable to come-for some comparatively harmless reason- and that there was to be no service that evening . |