Example sentences of "she [verb] been [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 2 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 3 | When she 'd been very little , not too long after her parents had died , she 'd had bad dreams . |
| 4 | She was cold , she had been dead some time . |
| 5 | How foolishly happy she had been earlier that evening , and how ridiculous she felt at this moment , all her dreams crushed and shattered around her slowly dragging feet . |
| 6 | Gentle and unassuming , she had been very much in her daughter 's hands . |
| 7 | Long ago , Miranda had realized that sexual involvement with Adam could only complicate her life , but she had been only half awake and off guard when he made his move . |
| 8 | It was just that she had been too much in love at the time to see it . |
| 9 | But after that seemingly unpropitious start , Topaz settled into the routine at Yelton as if she had been there all her life . |
| 10 | She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then . |
| 11 | She 's been away all week |
| 12 | So what just i , well my eldest daughter away and she 's been away this month twenty six years . |
| 13 | ‘ No , she 's been here all night . |
| 14 | Well they sort of said that what , hopefully , she 'll like be there for a couple of days and she 'll never think she 's been anywhere else , she 'll think she 's been there all the time . |