Example sentences of "that she have [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr McCallum added that she had rarely been asked to help anyone end their life , though relatives sometimes asked , using the argument ‘ you would n't let a dog die in this way ’ . |
| 2 | It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day . |
| 3 | She once reported to Robert Landgrebe , marketing manager , in a voice of genuine shock that she had just been on an aeroplane with three accountants ‘ and do you know , they tried to talk to me about design ’ . |
| 4 | He strode away without giving her a chance to speak , leaving her with the distinct impression that she had just been steamrollered . |
| 5 | Why did she get the distinct impression that she had just been steamrollered ? |
| 6 | She realised , wearily , almost too tired to care , that she had just been made the butt of a joke . |
| 7 | But , after nearly an hour , it was obvious that she had simply been brought to this near-empty building and left for the police to find her . |
| 8 | Then she rode home feeling a bit ashamed that she had n't been as brave as she felt sure a proper Brownie ought to have been in face of danger . |
| 9 | She knew that the job of breaking the news was n't a routine chore , that she had n't been chosen merely because she was the only woman in his team and he saw this as a woman 's job . |
| 10 | That she had n't been taken in , was what he had said ! |
| 11 | It irritated her to think that she had n't been doing anything reckless like running to catch a bus ; but she had a private theory that an old person did n't break a hip because she fell , but fell because her hip snapped , after gradual erosion . |
| 12 | She might have known that all of her efforts would end like this ; it was simply a truth that she had n't been wanting to face . |
| 13 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
| 14 | But she finally admitted that she had n't been in the ship at the time . |
| 15 | He seemed disappointed that she had n't been the one on the music track , but not too much . |
| 16 | And it was even more important that he should see , also , that she had n't been deflected by persuasive words and looks , kisses that seemed to draw her soul from her body . |
| 17 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |
| 18 | One of the speakers , Dr Margaret Collinson , wrote to Roy on 17 September to the effect that she had n't been told the venue , date or time of her paper . |
| 19 | It was only when she was reasonably sober , when , say , she woke up in the morning , head throbbing , tongue parched , that she suspected in retrospect that she had n't been quite so rationally conscious of those selfsame thoughts and actions … |
| 20 | Damn you , she wanted to say , suddenly hating him as she hated realising that while he had watched her reading from the Palmer & Pearson file that night — she had been oblivious that she had n't been wearing her spectacles — but not so him ! |
| 21 | That she had n't been sleeping properly , finding herself tossing and turning , ending up with twisted sheets and pulverised pillows ? |
| 22 | It was n't that she had n't been talking to Mandy , it was just that she had let her displeasure over that application be felt for an entire week now . |
| 23 | She was as sure as she could be that she had n't been followed , but she knew she would n't breathe freely again until she was airborne . |
| 24 | She realised at once that he could be forgiven if he reminded her that she had n't been too sugary herself during that phone call : but he did nothing of the kind , though he did allow himself a small smirk before all trace of a smile went from him . |
| 25 | Well last time we saw her , she said that she had n't been I think she went in her bedroom now , or in the toilet . . |
| 26 | Later she was to wish that she had neither been so deceitful , nor so colourful , but at the time excitement and expediency combined carried her away . |
| 27 | Might not some echo of it reach her mind , so that she would know someone of hers had been near ; that she had not been deserted ? |
| 28 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 29 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
| 30 | She explained that she had not been able to bring herself to discuss things with them , although she had managed to speak to her married brother , who had been very supportive and helpful . |