Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] be [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Not one of them has been stolen since the seed was sown . |
| 2 | She hates being photographed and wonders if she should ever have chosen a career in television . |
| 3 | I find her difficult to handle and my soundings are that she is deeply unpopular in Fleet St. She is also said to be extremely bitter about the way she has been treated and evidently stands to make millions from various lawsuits . |
| 4 | She has been warned that the public will not continue to hand over large sums to some of the young royals . |
| 5 | She has been coughing but she worked with sufficient sparkle at Lambourn on Saturday to persuade trainer Barry Hills that she is ready to put her reputation on the line . |
| 6 | If Hilary Robarts thinks she has been libelled and seeks redress I ca n't prevent her from going to law . ’ |
| 7 | Consider now the various kinds of argument which can be used in approaching these points of focus in your material and making something new and interesting from them : mode of argument ( a ) : Revalue a reputation ( or assess relative achievement ) ; example An extended essay which argues that Josephine Tey is a major Scottish writer , and that she has been neglected because she wrote detective fiction . |
| 8 | Since one of her implants ruptured in 1989 she has been disfigured and still has headaches and joint pain . |
| 9 | In 1763 Collinson told Bartram of his concern for the Carolina : Captain Friend being taken by the Spaniards and carried into Bilboa , but as she was taken eleven or twelve days after the treaty was signed , she has been claimed and , I hear , this day , she will be delivered . |
| 10 | Then , raising her voice , ‘ I do n't think Lady Joanna expects you to play with her , my lady , but she has been asking if you are feeling more rested . |
| 11 | Doctor goes on when one considers her potential life in terms of an academic achievement and marriage with a family , one can only say that without a shadow of doubt she has been devastated and her emotionally devastation will I fear , increase over the years , unquote . |
| 12 | An elderly person has very delicate skin ; and if he or she has been lying or sitting in bed all day , they may develop pressure sores on the bony parts of the body — the base of the spine , the heels , the elbows or on the shoulders . |
| 13 | She does n't begin to ovulate until she has been mated and will not become fertile for another two or three days . |
| 14 | She has been told that members of the Lords are permitted to use the facilities provided by the Commons — the bar , the library , etc — and trot up and down the Commons corridors . |
| 15 | Then she has been infantilised and she is no longer autonomous . |
| 16 | She 's ha , she 's been sneezing and got runny nose have n't you ? |
| 17 | A girl who I go with , she 's been teaching as well and her husband 's already in the hope that when she finishes they 're going to emigrate to America to . |
| 18 | No she she 's been looking but I do n't know if she 's still looking , I do n't know . |
| 19 | She 's been crying and I sent her home . |
| 20 | In Get Richie Quick ! , the hero 's ex-wife Lola asks him to find some missing family documents and turns out to be setting him up to take the blame for a series of axe murders she 's been committing since she was six years old . |
| 21 | And she 's got a bag whether she 's been shopping or , I |
| 22 | They appeal organisers want to know where in Germany she 's been taken and whether or not she 'll get the operation she needs in a German hospital . |
| 23 | said once I said and I , when she 's been going and it 's been cold out there I said to her cos she always comes on a Tuesday dinner time |
| 24 | ‘ She 's been saying that since last November … |
| 25 | She resists being fed because she is afraid that she will swell up and become too big for her coffin . |
| 26 | Doctor 's with your Pappy now , Miss Cora-Beth , and he 's ill with grieving and Jake went off on horseback not half an hour ago to fetch you and Mr Harry back from your party and we 's been waitin' and waitin' for you … ’ |
| 27 | Even in the reference section at the end of the book the most he offers is to say that by studying the Buddha image we can learn more about Eastern art ‘ than if we read a good many surveys of these fields ’ . |
| 28 | Fears that the Government was putting constraints on research it commissions were fuelled when , last year , the then DHSS inserted a new clause in its contract with outside researchers . |
| 29 | He has been characterised as having a patron and as being professionally marginal . |
| 30 | For this he has been smeared and victimised . |