Example sentences of "she have [been] a [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | She has been an enthusiastic member of the Dublin Sports and Social Committee since July 1992 . |
| 10 | In the 1920s , she 'd been a great beauty and a sharp dresser . |
| 11 | Dear God , she was nothing but skin and bone , and she 'd been a tiny slip of a thing to start with . |
| 12 | In real life she 'd been a poor shepherdess who lived in a dungeon and had asthma . |
| 13 | Meg realized she 'd been a complete fool . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | On the few occasions she 'd spent holidays at home she 'd been a social outcast among her contemporaries . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Her mum would never had done anything so untidy or indiscreet , and she 'd been a Tory all her life . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She had been a battered baby , grew up in a succession of foster homes , and then married a man who regularly beat her up . |
| 25 | He held her against him , nursing her as though she had been a small child , while looking down into her face . |
| 26 | ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was . |
| 27 | ‘ She had been a lifelong friend of the Abrams , ’ Mr Burke said . |
| 28 | When she had been a tiny child , and Fenna had still been a small , manageable and undemanding dragon she had , often spoken of him , to her mother who had grinned , to her grandmother who had smiled , and to her schoolteachers and friends , who had laughed indulgently . |
| 29 | Her senior by fourteen years , she had been a splendid nursemaid and even after marriage , while rearing her own family , Edna had still managed to do part-time cleaning and a weekly wash in the Tremayne household . |
| 30 | Personally , I think it was a merciful release both for my aunt and for my Uncle Félix , seeing that she had been a helpless invalid for so long . |