Example sentences of "she have [adv] been a " 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 | She 'd never been a proper mother and I hated the way she was acting with that man . |
| 8 | She 'd never been a raving beauty , it was true , but at the moment she looked a wreck . |
| 9 | She had n't deserved their kindness , their good wishes — she 'd hardly been a boon companion of late . |
| 10 | She had also been a builder before coming to the school and ended up doing most of the work . |
| 11 | In the last ten years she had also been a magistrate , and had become chairman of the Committee of Magistrates . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had once been a famous athlete , and even now the muscles were still clearly in evidence . |
| 15 | She had once been a warm Methodist and so too , probably , had been most of her followers . |
| 16 | She adopted an abrasive stance towards the European Common Market , for which she had never been a strong enthusiast . |
| 17 | It should n't ; she had never been a woman to give a damn about other people 's opinions . |
| 18 | She had always said she had never been a shop-girl and she was n't going to start now . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She had never been a Bonapartist , yet that distaste had not made it any easier for her to leave France and follow an army that must fight against her countrymen . |
| 21 | Grace Bird , whom he had worked with before and of whom he was fond , spent most nights up at the hospital knitting in the waiting-room while Dotty ministered to poor old Dickie St Ives , and although he respected Mary Deare as a performer — she was possibly the best Peter since Nina Boucicault — she had never been a chum . |
| 22 | She had never been a tense or anxious person . |
| 23 | She had always been a self-sufficient woman , since the married years with Martin . |
| 24 | Eugénie had not long been an Empress , but she had always been a grandee of Spain , with all that implied in pride and good breeding . |
| 25 | There was , she found , a certain satisfaction to be got from standing behind a counter ; she had always been a customer , at the receiving end , until now . |
| 26 | To him until then she had always been a safe comforting haven ; complete and seemingly self-sufficient in herself , she had always been an unfailing source of reassurance , ever ready to pour unquestioning love and affection on him in his moments of need . |
| 27 | She had always been a confident , outgoing person . |
| 28 | Whatever her situation , she had still been a human being , entitled to warmth and shelter and protection . |
| 29 | She 's ancient , and sexless the way the very old and the very young are , but she 's still been a woman , and I resent that , for my own good reason . |
| 30 | Oh she 's always been a good daughter up till now , I 'll grant her that , I 've never been one to just blame the girl , Douglas , I blame the boy too . |