Example sentences of "[subord] she have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's a grey figure by comparison , Lee thought , muted where she had been abrasive , withdrawn when she had been a firebrand . |
| 2 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 3 | He had subsequently taken her to the cinema , where she had been startled to feel his hand creep into hers . |
| 4 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 5 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 6 | Although she had been unaware that the small print contained a wide exclusion clause , the Court of Appeal held that the clause protected the seller from liability in respect of defects in the machine . |
| 7 | For the past twenty-four hours , she had swallowed none of her medication , although she had been unable to refuse an injection . |
| 8 | Storm or no storm , she could no more have returned to the inn than she had been able to return penitent to the bosom of her family six long years ago , when the same stigma would have been laid to her then as had been laid to her now . |
| 9 | She was contributing more than she had been able to before to her mother 's household expenses . |
| 10 | Once she had been proud of being rootless , but now she was beginning to feel like a boat without a rudder . |
| 11 | That once she had been capable of responding ? |
| 12 | Once she had been attractive , with a good figure : now she was painfully thin and her sharp features gave her a pinched look . |
| 13 | Once she had been pretty and lively with a twenty-three-inch waist . |
| 14 | Wishing desperately that she were able to defend her grandfather , but knowing that to explain would only cause more trouble until she 'd been able to speak with his mother , and fervently wishing she had locked her door when she 'd come up to bed , Ellie said tiredly , ‘ I do n't know why . |
| 15 | She 's got a bruise on her arm like she 's been ten rounds with Dempsey … and it 's all your fault . ’ |
| 16 | As I watched her I thought Granny would have been proud if she 'd been alive to see Mary now . |
| 17 | For the first time she began to wonder if she 'd been foolhardy — no matter how strong her desire to get away , she should n't have put her own safety at risk . |
| 18 | Mala sprang from her sear as if she 'd been electro-jolted . |
| 19 | If she 'd been forty , I doubt if it would have made any difference — to either of us . ’ |
| 20 | Jane reflected that if she 'd been enormous , with masses of stomach and bust up front , Lajos might have thought twice about bashing her . |
| 21 | She fled home on the underground , scolding herself for being such a coward , it could all be over now if she 'd been sensible . |
| 22 | But if she 'd been frank from the outset and had admitted to him that she 'd been sent by his stepmother with the plea for him to visit her the result would have been short and sharp . |
| 23 | That was not strictly true , though she might have scraped by if she 'd been prepared to go into debt . |
| 24 | If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that . |
| 25 | But now she wondered if she 'd been wrong — or , at least , only partly right . |
| 26 | But what if she 'd been wrong in that — what if there were other things he wanted to do ? |
| 27 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 28 | She looked drowsy , as if she had been asleep . |
| 29 | One mother claimed : ‘ She would not have said such a thing if she had been married . |
| 30 | A faint , ironic smile played about her mouth as she allowed herself , just for a minute , to imagine what the weekend could have held if she had been one of Dane 's legion of devoted followers . |