Example sentences of "and she have [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd helped her through a bad patch and she 'd been grateful , but she 'd never really considered him in any other light .
2 And she 'd been blind positive he 'd ask her out .
3 As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it .
4 She had always thought that , and she had been involved with him , willy-nilly , over the house .
5 There was only one big road to cross , but it had a zebra crossing and she had been road-safe at Phoebe 's insistence for years .
6 And she had been right .
7 Her mother used to say that what was bred in the bone came out in the blood , and she had been right .
8 A chair , amputated to accommodate Nasty ( and she had been nasty ) Nannie , still sat near the fireplace ; the cold grate was still guarded by its high wire fender .
9 She could remember the incident quite clearly , although the circumstances surrounding it had vanished into oblivion , beyond recall of any form of analysis : it had been early afternoon , so clearly not a party incident — maybe they had had lunch together ? — and she had been anxious about picking up children from school .
10 And she had been special , Ruth gritted to herself as she rubbed her body liberally with shower gel .
11 Her eyes leapt from Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob to Verse 25 of the Gospel According to St Matthew , to which she had turned simply because it began the New Testament and she had been unable to make anything of the Old .
12 And she had been startled by the strength and abandon of her own response .
13 Stephen had asked her to join him and the new general manager in his office that morning , and she had been eager to meet the young hotelier who came so highly qualified .
14 He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose .
15 He had lost himself in her , and she had been willing to take him .
16 He gave her so much pleasure when she was with him and she had been lonely for so long .
17 One day in June , L's father looked after her and she had been restless .
18 Both parents had come to the open evening and she had been able to talk to them .
19 And she had been wrong .
20 The cabin had been in darkness , and she had been alone .
21 And she had been insistent in her invitation .
22 Still , he was young and she had been afraid the house would be full of only old people .
23 And she had been pretty on that slab , all the influences of birth and upbringing cancelled out .
24 I 'm not fussed for myself , but Pauline 's younger and she 's been used to town life , see what I mean ? ’
25 Q Our daughter is nearly three and she 's been dry at night for over a year , but recently she 's started to wet the bed at night .
26 Dave and I er were grabbed by the throat by em a woman and her husband from Worksop called and woman called Barbara , and she 's been involved with er a fella called Superintendent er in West Yorkshire .
27 Oh yes , keep it in the family oh dear she was my youngest sister too and she 's been dead for , oh bloody hell , she was eighty six when she died , how long 's that ago , a few years , I 'm the baby of the family and me brother 's the next one , and he 's eight eighty five now , is he ?
28 And she 's been happy ever since , bossing everybody around , playing the queen of the castle .
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