Example sentences of "she [verb] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is important that here the yokes are inverted : Mariana and the ties with Spain she represents have been transformed , translated into Mexican , into the complexities of the mestizo Mexican present . |
| 2 | Particularly unimpressed was Nell McCafferty who thought it a bad choice as an opening movie which she assumed had been selected as a ‘ keynote ’ film for the festival . |
| 3 | Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century . |
| 4 | She had changed into a gown she seemed to have been poured into , and promised to pop out of . |
| 5 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 6 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |
| 7 | She claimed to have been shopping with a boyfriend at the time . |
| 8 | Nothing half so terrible had happened to her ; no one she loved had been killed or even hurt . |
| 9 | Her blouse fell open and her naked breast was warmed by the hot sun and his mouth drawing her desire from deep within her , a desire she thought had been lost for no other man would have been able to free it , no other but him . |
| 10 | That ache that she thought had been satiated for all time was back within her . |
| 11 | the client may not obtain the project he or she thought had been commissioned |
| 12 | She became a snob ; she thought only of smart society ; and finally she tried to turn her uncle out of the very house in which the most useful things she knew had been inserted into her brain . |
| 13 | Decidedly not the one she knew had been bought only recently from Laura Ashley and which now lay abandoned on the floor beside her bed . |
| 14 | Another big plus is the enormous pride she feels having been nominated by daughter Joanne : ‘ The pride I feel knowing that Joanne saw fit to nominate me is indescribable . ’ |
| 15 | Relatively unimportant as these smaller losses may seem compared with the main one , together they may add up to a total picture of her life which she feels has been shattered overnight by a single blow . |
| 16 | Most paintings she bought have been stolen so no-one knows which are valuable and which worthless . |
| 17 | She appeared to have been holding a makeshift icepack to the side of her head and a couple of the cubes had skidded out of reach and begun to melt , almost as if she 'd been in too much of a hurry to stretch over for them . |
| 18 | She appeared to have been eating . |
| 19 | HARRIET Harman yesterday staked a claim for Labour as the party for women whose needs she said had been ignored under 13 years of Conservative rule . |