Example sentences of "she have [adv] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has also been a Governor and one time Chairman of the Reigate School of Art & design . |
| 2 | She has previously been a youth worker and trainer in both the statutory and voluntary sectors . |
| 3 | She has now been a ticket collector for more than 15 years and has won a radio and a newspaper award for her personality and popularity with passengers . |
| 4 | Worth buying for the introduction alone , this collection of Burchill 's contributions to a variety of British papers and magazines ( including us , of course ) highlights why she has always been a great read . |
| 5 | Although Monica was brought up in London , she has always been a country girl at heart . |
| 6 | ‘ She has always been a Liverpool fan , though , and used to follow them to Wembley . ’ |
| 7 | If she has always been an outgoing person , her grief will probably be expressed in painful episodes of weeping , punctuated by the need to ‘ talk it all out ’ over and over again in great detail to you and to other sympathetic relatives and friends , and you will help her a great deal if you are a patient listener . |
| 8 | She has always been an internationalist — and since 1975 has been membership secretary of the Chile Solidarity Campaign . |
| 9 | She 'd never been a proper mother and I hated the way she was acting with that man . |
| 10 | She 'd never been a raving beauty , it was true , but at the moment she looked a wreck . |
| 11 | She had n't deserved their kindness , their good wishes — she 'd hardly been a boon companion of late . |
| 12 | She had n't been a lad for a couple of years now , but she knew the routine . |
| 13 | " Nowhere , " she said , but her mother always knew when she was lying because she had n't been a bad liar in her time herself , and it took one to know one . |
| 14 | But she had n't been a hardnosed grubber after facts ( or compiler of falsehoods , for that matter ) . |
| 15 | If she had n't been a good actress I would n't have hired her . ’ |
| 16 | She had n't been a patient for over twenty years , since she 'd had the barrage of undignified tests and minor operations that had led to nothing but disappointment . |
| 17 | Daphne felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy ’ ‘ The letters show beyond doubt that Daphne had an affair with the American actress Gertrude Lawrence' |
| 18 | She felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy . ’ |
| 19 | If she had n't been an awkward , obstinate bitch of a teenager , it would all have been very different . |
| 20 | Would he have ‘ lost his self-control ’ if she had not been a mature person ? |
| 21 | Instead , she had not been a burden , either in my mind or , more importantly , in her own . |
| 22 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 23 | Since she had not been a UK resident for longer than 3 yrs , you had kindly found a policy which charged ‘ only' £14 extra . |
| 24 | She had also been a builder before coming to the school and ended up doing most of the work . |
| 25 | In the last ten years she had also been a magistrate , and had become chairman of the Committee of Magistrates . |
| 26 | She had clearly been a very good-looking woman when younger , and even now was handsome ; paradoxically , the artifices she employed to emphasise this were the very features to strike a false note . |
| 27 | Janet Roscoe had finished re-reading A Midsummer Night 's Dream , and felt just a little less certain now about her long-held view ( she had earlier been an actress ) that Mr Shakespeare was sometimes way below his best when it came to the writing of comedy . |
| 28 | The cultural difference between Spain and the Spanish king 's northern dominions was considerably greater than that between France and Scotland ; Scotland managed to resist becoming a permanent part of the French political hegemony , but she had long been an enthusiastic member of the cultural one . |
| 29 | It has been suggested that she had once been a Benedictine nun of the convent of Carrow , which was situated near the church where she eventually had her cell : to this day Benedictine nuns take the title ‘ Dame ’ , the honorary title of any woman of rank at this time . |
| 30 | She had once been a famous athlete , and even now the muscles were still clearly in evidence . |