Example sentences of "[coord] she have been [verb] " in BNC.

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1 A defendant 's costs order may also be made in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) by a magistrates ' court where an information has been laid before magistrates but not proceeded with ; or where the magistrates ' court inquiring into an indictable offence as examining justices determines not to commit the accused for trial ; ( 2 ) by the Crown Court where the defendant is not tried for an offence for which he or she had been indicted or committed for trial ; or the defendant who has been convicted of an offence before a magistrates ' court appeals against conviction or sentence and , in consequence of that appeal , the conviction is set aside or a less severe punishment is awarded ; ( 3 ) by the Divisional Court where it deals with any criminal appeal ; ( 4 ) by the Court of Appeal where it allows an appeal against conviction or sentence or on such an appeal finds the defendant guilty of a different offence or imposes a different sentence ; ( 5 ) by the House of Lords where it determines a criminal appeal , or application for leave to appeal .
2 It reminded Jane of one of the Professor Branestawm stories she had read as a child in which the characters were photographs come alive , each repeating , over and over again , the sentence he or she had been saying at the moment the photograph was taken .
3 Before the prison doors had opened , or she had been stuffed into the hold of that ghastly convict ship , to spend her life scrubbing and cleaning and whoring for rough and dangerous men .
4 So the sociologist seeks concepts among descriptions of initiation rites in non-Christian societies and in all this learns more about the general purposes and beliefs which surround the admission of a young child into the culture into which he or she has been born .
5 First , both theories suggest an eventual return of homosexuality : in the one ( psychoanalytic ) it is a psychic return of the repressed from within , in the other ( materialist ) a social or cultural return from without ; either an inner resurgence of desire through the breakdown of psychic repression , or the oppositional approach via the proximate of the demonized other from beyond , from the social margins where he or she has been discovered , constructed , displaced .
6 Not allowing yourself or your children to be passengers in a car if the driver is the primary sufferer and he or she has been drinking .
7 For example , an investor might sell for 100p per share one week and if he or she has been proven correct in their expectations may buy the share for say 80p each the following week , thus netting a profit per share of 20p before transactions costs .
8 The main considerations in deciding whether to release such a prisoner are whether he or she has been detained long enough to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence for the offence and whether the potential risk to the public is judged to be acceptable .
9 First because he or she has been regarded ( especially in psychoanalytic theory ) as one who fears the difference of the ‘ other ’ or opposite sex , and , in flight from it , narcissistically embraces the same sex instead .
10 In addition to the disqualifications that apply to voting , a person may not be a candidate if he or she has been declared bankrupt within the previous five years , has incurred or authorised unlawful expenditure by a local authority above £2,000 , or is a paid employee of the local authority in question or the holder of a politically restricted post in another local authority ( see pages 88 — 9 ) .
11 He or she has been eating a very large quantity of food and has recently embarked on a calorie-counting slimming programme .
12 It is sufficient for that person to establish that he or she has been prevented to an appreciable extent from enjoying the ordinary comforts of life ; there is no need to establish direct injury to health .
13 that he or she has been signed in at the inn ;
14 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 .
15 In the new system , after a registered kidney donor has died , the hospital to which he or she has been taken contacts the nearest computer centre .
16 A genuine higher learning is subversive in the sense of subverting the student 's taken-for-granted world , including the world of endeavour , scholarship , calculation or creativity , into which he or she has been initiated .
17 It may be that he or she has been working quietly away in the background or it could be a single , dramatic act of true heroism in harrowing circumstances that we hear about but often goes unrewarded .
18 And she 'd been nicknamed ‘ Scatty ’ because of a habit of daydreaming her way through the mundane bits of life .
19 She knew that I 'd have to keep Dawn in my bedroom to start with , and she 'd been beginning to have second thoughts about letting me do that .
20 Once she 'd got known for being presentable , turning up sober and on time , not leaving early with the spoons and able to tell left hand from right , word got round and she 'd been passed from college to college by grateful manciples .
21 And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up
22 It was a planned pregnancy , and she 'd been working hard at getting her blood sugar under control , but that often ca n't be done overnight . ’
23 Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle .
24 There had been ‘ complications ’ and she 'd been told she could n't have children .
25 She feared often that it might not fill the House , but it was true and strong and she 'd been told it was pleasing .
26 Her mother identified it as a wayfaring tree and she 'd been cutting it back during the summer and it did n't seem to mind but she 'd be very grateful for any information about the wayfaring tree which presumably she 'd like to keep and continue to grow in her garden .
27 And she 'd been coming to our house , Oh about fie or six years , and she said one day to Mary , that 's my wife , says you know , Not strange name , there 's not many of them about .
28 And she 'd been charmed with Bergerac itself .
29 With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light .
30 She was cold , tired and aching ; her bed had n't been thick enough , and she 'd been wakened several times by sheep trying to share it , or eat it .
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