Example sentences of "[that] she have been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in death , some members of the Glencairn family could not forget that she had been a commoner and objected to her burial in the vault . |
| 2 | The two ladies had each paid 500 dollars for the privilege of a ten-minute consultation , during which one was told that she had been a quartz crystal in a former life while the other was informed that she had been an E flat ! |
| 3 | She had let me see a draft of it , and I fancied that she had been a little timid about the dénouement , which was death in a motor accident , and feared that her own terrible anxiety over her son in the past might have inhibited her . |
| 4 | It was a cruel trick that she had been a dream , that he could not join her yet . |
| 5 | She knew that she had been a success and that Ludo was proud of her . |
| 6 | Mrs Johnston made a claim to an industrial tribunal that she had been a victim of sex discrimination ; but the Secretary of State issued a certificate ( which the relevant statute said was ‘ conclusive ’ ) that she had been dismissed on grounds of national security . |
| 7 | In the afternoon , when only her mother was with her , she stated spontaneously to a nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she had been a Jehovah 's Witness and retained some beliefs . |
| 8 | Personally , I think it was a merciful release both for my aunt and for my Uncle Félix , seeing that she had been a helpless invalid for so long . |
| 9 | We learn from a visit Emilia made to Simon Forman [ q.v. ] , astrologer , in 1597 , that she had been a favourite at the court of Elizabeth , had become mistress of Henry Carey , first Baron Hunsdon [ q.v. ] , and had been ‘ maintained in great pomp ’ until 1592 , when , becoming pregnant , she was married to Captain Alphonso Lanier , of the other leading family of court musicians , the Laniers , who came to London from Rouen in 1561 . |
| 10 | But she was not to know that he had had this desire , and went into the house with head bent , feeling that she had been a failure . |
| 11 | ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was . |
| 12 | The two ladies had each paid 500 dollars for the privilege of a ten-minute consultation , during which one was told that she had been a quartz crystal in a former life while the other was informed that she had been an E flat ! |
| 13 | He suspected that she had been an embarrassment to the authorities and that , in the conditions which then prevailed , what mattered was whether they wished to have such a person interned and not whether she had been subversive . |
| 14 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 15 | Guilty that she had been the lucky one . |
| 16 | Perhaps she had begun to realise that she had been the victim of an unhappy marriage , rather than simply the cause of one . |
| 17 | All that mattered was that she had been the fool . |
| 18 | Miss Marshall complained of unlawful sex discrimination and her case went to the European Court of Justice where it was decided that she had been the subject of such unlawful discrimination . |
| 19 | She looked behind and concentrated on speeding backwards down the track , giving silent thanks that she had been the last to arrive . |
| 20 | Kenya 's Chief Magistrate , Joseph Mango , ruled on Oct. 27 , 1989 , at the inquest of a British tourist , Julie Ward , whose body was found in the Masai Mara game reserve in September 1988 , that she had been the victim of " foul play by persons unknown " , contrary to previous official claims that she had been killed by wild animals [ see p. 36917 ] . |
| 21 | It was a statement of fact , one which again damned her , implying , as it did , that she had been the one to manipulate Peter into a liaison . |
| 22 | She was highly delighted , especially when she learned that she had been the only woman called for interview ; she had been certain that the job would go to one of the male applicants . |
| 23 | The women accused of murdering Linda Ann McMullen , 30 , then tried an elaborate charade to suggest that she had been the victim of a sex attack by a man , it was alleged at Mold Crown Court . |
| 24 | He knew that she had been the owner of a house in which murder had been effected ; he knew that she had inherited this house from her uncle , Ted Mosse , an old man who was himself worth investigating . |
| 25 | It was not necessary for him to know that she 'd been a widow for years . |
| 26 | She feigned enthusiasm , but what she was really thinking was that she 'd been a fool to hope he 'd come here on a more personal mission . |
| 27 | It had never counted for anything that she 'd been the innocent victim , that she 'd had no control over the events which had shaped her life — she 'd carried the burden with her , locked into her soul , and at least that way she 'd felt relatively safe . |