Example sentences of "[conj] she have been [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Laura cried , struggling to sit up on the wide leather rear seat of the large car , where she had been so unceremoniously tossed only a moment before .
2 Instead , feeling as though with each step she took she was treading on her dreams , destroying them forever , she followed him mutely back to the sofa and seated herself where she had been before .
3 Either he had been pitifully unobservant or she had been expertly deceitful .
4 Once the protection is acquired , the employee can make a claim that he or she has been unfairly dismissed .
5 He 'd asked her to wait for him , and although she 'd been too angry at the time to say that she would , she had nevertheless avoided marriage to anyone else despite the many proposals she 'd had .
6 He had too , she realised , although she had been too absorbed in her own clumsy , hopeless awareness of him to have taken the fact in until now .
7 The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it .
8 It seemed that she had been here years , and already she had driven a wedge between her and Ben .
9 Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference .
10 She thought ruefully that she had been pretty unfair .
11 To which she replied that she had been sound asleep , that she had heard a desultory conversation , but its substance had nothing whatever to do with her .
12 She admitted to herself that she had been partly to blame .
13 He thought that she had been exceptionally sweet to Emmie lately and he was grateful to her .
14 ( Her niece told me that she had been particularly good at her job . )
15 It was the first time in her life that she had been openly insulted .
16 Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help .
17 It seems to be almost a perception of physics as an ‘ arts ’ subject ; indeed , Jane told me that she had been equally good at arts and sciences but had chosen sciences because of the job and university prospects .
18 He walked out and Jenna was left with the feeling that she had been decidedly ungracious , of uncertain temper and rather childish .
19 It was impossible not to feel that she had been badly treated , but the bad treatment came from the intransigent doctors and not from a Prime Minister who , as she must have known , was immensely supportive and would not willingly have been associated with any slight on her .
20 His eyes narrowed at this bitterness , but he simply left the room , and Jenna had the feeling that she had been as ungracious as he appeared to think .
21 When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens .
22 She did n't want to explain that she had been too nervous to go in the kitchen and cook it , too lily-livered to turn her back to the window as she lit the gas , too timorous to cause even the tiny sounds of roasting game .
23 It was just that she had been too much in love at the time to see it .
24 ‘ The next day she would always phone to say that she had been in and she 'd pick on a few things that she was n't quite happy with . ’
25 My mother would answer inaudibly , but it would be evident from my father 's all-too-audible answering tirade that she had been gently remonstrating .
26 Because , while being regressed , the patient is well aware of his or her present-day persona in addition to the previous one , Myra found it very distressing to think that she had been so happy to go along with all Hugh 's demands .
27 Men like Ryan , and probably Leo , could have their pick of women , which made it even more unbelievable that she had been so stupid as to believe Ryan .
28 It had all gone — the thin veneer of self-confidence , the determination that she had been so proud of acquiring and nurturing since that first audition in Vienna .
29 Laura blinked , realising that she had been so buried in her own thoughts that she 'd missed what Carole had been saying .
30 Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave .
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