Example sentences of "she have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Since having her daughter Chiara , five , and son Joshua , three , she has been a full-time mother in rural Wiltshire , and her looks have taken a back seat .
2 I know she is old and wo n't last forever , but she has been a good and loyal friend to me and I will stand by her .
3 She has been a civil servant for over 30 years and has worked at the town 's county court for 24 years .
4 She did not even try to prevent my journey , although she has been a perfect tyrant these many weeks , making me keep my bed !
5 She has been a tireless worker for the party since the Truro MPs death in a road crash in 1986 .
6 She has been a keen walker and rock climber for many years and has climbed in the Alps , Pyrenees and Dolomites .
7 With her extended white cloud of frizzed hair she has been a constant , if sometimes startling , presence in the New York underground art scene for many a year .
8 She has been the Great North Run winner in 1990 and 1991 as well as the British track holder at all distances from 100m to 800 .
9 That has yet to be tested in public , but the evening certainly did not put her off — — she has been an ardent fan of the Welsh National Opera ever since .
10 She has been an enthusiastic member of the Dublin Sports and Social Committee since July 1992 .
11 In the 1920s , she 'd been a great beauty and a sharp dresser .
12 Dear God , she was nothing but skin and bone , and she 'd been a tiny slip of a thing to start with .
13 In real life she 'd been a poor shepherdess who lived in a dungeon and had asthma .
14 Meg realized she 'd been a complete fool .
15 She 'd even felt the odd pang of nostalgia for the old days when she 'd been a young wet-behind-the-ears singer , just beginning to make her way up the ladder .
16 On the few occasions she 'd spent holidays at home she 'd been a social outcast among her contemporaries .
17 He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory .
18 Her mum would never had done anything so untidy or indiscreet , and she 'd been a Tory all her life .
19 It was n't IMP 's fault , or hers , that he had started at Jerez in third position , but she 'd been a convenient whipping-boy for his suspicions .
20 When she 'd called him , she 'd been no closer to Vine Street than the corridor pay phone just around the corner .
21 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 .
22 He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area .
23 Would she have been a normal and contented woman had she not been Nicolae 's sister , or did her willingness to abuse every chance to profiteer from her position and to humiliate those she disliked reflect a deeply unpleasant cast in the Ceauşescu genes ?
24 She had been a regular person once , but that had been before the voices started up in her head , before the dead woman got out of her rocking chair , before the preacherman reached into her mind and gave it a sharp twist …
25 In any case , even if she had been a skilled charmer it was not possible to allure somebody who slashed back at you like a master swordsman and drove the point in .
26 Until she had met him , she had been a friendly , easygoing girl , with a few not-very-serious relationships behind her , and a very balanced view of life .
27 If she had been a religious person she would have put it down to retribution for her sins , but she had lost whatever faith she had had in her years as the Madam of Dublin 's most fashionable brothel .
28 She had been a battered baby , grew up in a succession of foster homes , and then married a man who regularly beat her up .
29 He held her against him , nursing her as though she had been a small child , while looking down into her face .
30 ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was .
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