Example sentences of "she have [adv] been [art] " 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 | In the past she has often been the butt of uncomplimentary remarks herself but this time it is not her performance which should be belittled . |
| 10 | She 'd never been a proper mother and I hated the way she was acting with that man . |
| 11 | She 'd never been a raving beauty , it was true , but at the moment she looked a wreck . |
| 12 | She 'd never been the crying sort — but it just took a few well-chosen words from him to reduce her to a jelly . |
| 13 | She had n't deserved their kindness , their good wishes — she 'd hardly been a boon companion of late . |
| 14 | She had also been a builder before coming to the school and ended up doing most of the work . |
| 15 | In the last ten years she had also been a magistrate , and had become chairman of the Committee of Magistrates . |
| 16 | She had also been the saviour to many local drinkers who were about to get the bums rush from an irate Knocker , always a painful experience because Knocker rarely bothered to open the door first . |
| 17 | She watched her mother and daughter talking together and felt a deep hurt , as if she had somehow been the cause of it all . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He told her that , in a previous life , she had actually been the composer of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik , and , while she was in a trance , he dictated his new work to her — a Concerto in G for harp , oboe and string orchestra . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She had once been a famous athlete , and even now the muscles were still clearly in evidence . |
| 24 | She had once been a warm Methodist and so too , probably , had been most of her followers . |
| 25 | Seeing her there , Stephen had to remind himself — for nothing in her bearing hinted at it and no vestige of hand-some looks remained — that she had once been the mistress of Alfred Osborn Tace . |
| 26 | She could not imagine that she had ever been the first person . |
| 27 | She adopted an abrasive stance towards the European Common Market , for which she had never been a strong enthusiast . |
| 28 | It should n't ; she had never been a woman to give a damn about other people 's opinions . |
| 29 | She had always said she had never been a shop-girl and she was n't going to start now . |
| 30 | She had never been a snob in the unpleasant sense of the word , but she had always set great store by Father 's material success , and later by my having been to Oxford and then on my becoming a doctor . |