Example sentences of "[prep] her [noun sg] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment Merrill 's grey eyes clouded ; winding up Elise 's affairs after her death had been a painful business , but there was no one else to do it . |
| 2 | The shock of finding out about her child had been responsible for her husband 's fatal apoplexy , and she would feel guilty for the rest of her life . |
| 3 | Jealousy of her friend had been steadily mounting in the last few months . |
| 4 | His last sight of her reliquary had been at morning Mass . |
| 5 | Anne McHardy , a correspondent of The Guardian , has confirmed that the Belfast telephone of her newspaper has been tapped . |
| 6 | While she would not have scored highly in a bout conducted according to the Queensberry Rules , she was strong , agile and quite unscrupulous , since the evenings and holidays of her childhood had been spent in back street and wasteland where enemies , from time immemorial , have come together . |
| 7 | She spoke softly , lisping slightly , and Lewis immediately noticed ( what he had not been told ) that two teeth in the upper left of her jaw had been broken off . |
| 8 | Even now , Marie could sense that the stranglehold of her rage had been broken . |
| 9 | Katherine sat back in the train 's cushioned seats and as it pulled away from the platform , she breathed a sigh of relief The first part of her plan had been safely accomplished . |
| 10 | Most of her fortune has been carefully invested . |
| 11 | A ramp that made it possible for a disabled woman to get in and out of her home has been demolished by the local council . |
| 12 | The most unsatisfactory aspect of her work has been the 6% budget cut in 1991 , which in 1992 after adding inflation , was at least 10% down on 1990 . |
| 13 | It struck her how much of her life had been spent dissembling . |
| 14 | It seemed so dreadful , when one looked at Susan , to think how much of her life had been wasted already , and to know that the rest of it would be spent in bondage . |
| 15 | They had met just three months ago , yet now it seemed that the whole of her life had been crammed into those few fleeting weeks ; as if her living had had no meaning before they met and her future would have no substance if ever he left her . |
| 16 | It seemed cold , back in that old house in Wickrithe where the first years of her life had been spent . |
| 17 | The last few months of her life had been horrible . |
| 18 | The broader circumstances of her life have been more trying , however . |
| 19 | Her day has been celebrated most reverently every year , and the day of her translation has been particularly blessed . |
| 20 | It had vanished as surely as the name of her village had been erased from the map of Israel . |
| 21 | During the appeal hearing , the defence emphasized that the forensic tests which had helped to form the basis of her conviction had been discredited in a series of appeal cases , most recently that of the Birmingham Six [ see p. 38111 ] . |
| 22 | An empty stomach and the pain of her ankle had been too much for her . |
| 23 | What remained of her hair had been clipped and plastered close to her head in a most unflattering style . |
| 24 | And why were her own pulses racing as if the floodgates of her bloodstream had been opened ? |
| 25 | ‘ Her head and the side of her face had been bashed in , ’ said Melissa . |
| 26 | Her left elbow was tingling too and as she felt for it with her right hand she found that the sleeve of her blouse had been torn . |
| 27 | When she had finally been rescued some two hours later it was discovered that the hem of her frock had been chewed away . |
| 28 | The wrath of her disappointment had been the instrument of his education , which had taken place in a perpetual rush from site to site of a hastily amalgamated three-school comprehensive , the Aneurin Bevan school , combining Glasdale Old Grammar School , St Thomas à Beckett 's C of E Secondary School and the Clothiers ' Guild Technical Modern School . |
| 29 | The years of her youth had been sacrificed to her father 's obsession . |
| 30 | His enjoyment of her body had been intense and complete , his desire unabashed and unabated . |