Example sentences of "she [verb] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she has been given special dispensation to play in two events in her home state before that birthday . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | She has been granted legal aid to pursue an action in the Court of Session against Lothian Regional Council . |
| 6 | She has been appointed public relations assistant . |
| 7 | I rather suspect she has been imagining nameless orgies . ’ |
| 8 | Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 9 | BABY kidnapper Caren McSweeney is so stunned by what she did that she has been struck dumb . |
| 10 | Ever since , she has been delighting deaf people she encounters by communicating in their own language . |
| 11 | He boasts in the Tory-backing Daily Mail that she has been proved right in her warnings against the European exchange rate mechanism . |
| 12 | It began with a love of children , but recently she has been making important speeches about the role of the family as a whole , and the dangers of drug abuse . |
| 13 | She has been left alone to lead something approaching a normal life now and then . |
| 14 | But she has been left stranded after thieves stole the blue Yamaha XT600 from the car park of a Southport hotel . |
| 15 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 16 | She 'd been feeling sick a morning or two , but not so as it interfered with her work , and no one remarked on it . |
| 17 | She 'd been feeling lonely and vulnerable . |
| 18 | It was as though she 'd been let loose from shackles she had n't even known she 'd been wearing . |
| 19 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 20 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 21 | She had been wearing blue faded jeans , and a white sweat shirt flattened against the pointed nipples and the upturned breasts ; the cotton seeming too thin a protection against the freshening onshore breeze . |
| 22 | She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately . |
| 23 | In imagination Mrs. Pridmore followed her daughter as she pedalled vigorously on her way ; bumping down the rough farm track between Mr. Bowlem 's flat fields to Tenpenny Road , past old Mrs. Button 's cottage where , as a child , she had been given rice-cake and home-made lemonade , by Tenpenny Dyke where she still picked cowslips in summer , then a right turn into Chevisham Road and the straight two miles skirting Captain Massey 's land and into Chevisham village . |
| 24 | In December 1986 she had had a transient ischaemic attack for which she had been given enteric coated aspirin ( ecotrin 300 mg/day ) . |
| 25 | She had been kept alive by means of a feeding tube , which was disconnected following the court 's decision , and she died on Dec. 26 . |
| 26 | She had been born blind and her disability had enriched rather than restricted her life . |
| 27 | ‘ Not at all , ’ Rain said quickly , deducing she had been looking bored . |
| 28 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 29 | A letter from her killer and kidnapper to West Yorkshire Police claimed that after she had been beaten unconscious , then strangled , her body had been kept in a wheelie-bin for two days before being taken to where it was later found Easton , near Grantham , Lincs in July 1991 . |
| 30 | It was again as if she had been struck , her hands barely moving along the surface of the dresser she had been wiping clean of dust , her head going low , and when she finished she went to put the damp cloth carefully beside the sink , moving a simmering saucepan from the hotplate . |