Example sentences of "she have [been] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been the Great North Run winner in 1990 and 1991 as well as the British track holder at all distances from 100m to 800 . |
| 2 | It had never counted for anything that she 'd been the innocent victim , that she 'd had no control over the events which had shaped her life — she 'd carried the burden with her , locked into her soul , and at least that way she 'd felt relatively safe . |
| 3 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 4 | But wherever they had gone , she had been the perfect companion : enthusiastic , amusing and loving . |
| 5 | She had been the first Western politician to reach the Kurds . |
| 6 | She wanted him to plead with her to stay with him , forever , as he 'd done once before , but this time she would accept and tell him how wrong she had been the first time . |
| 7 | In fact she had been the powerful sustaining force for as long as he could remember . |
| 8 | She had been the only passenger to alight from the two carriage train which she could still hear dimly in the distance , chuffing its way over the Severn Bridge on its way to Lydney . |
| 9 | She had been the only one to choose a piece from Alice in Wonderland . |
| 10 | For a start she had been the only woman , and her colleagues had found it strange that she should be working with them . |
| 11 | Aleksandra Biryukova retired as a Deputy Chair of the USSR Council of Ministers ( in which she had been the only woman out of 69 members ) and as Chair of the Bureau for Social Development on Sept. 17 . |
| 12 | She was highly delighted , especially when she learned that she had been the only woman called for interview ; she had been certain that the job would go to one of the male applicants . |
| 13 | He had once been the leader and she had been the unquestioning follower , but all that had changed now . |
| 14 | She looked behind and concentrated on speeding backwards down the track , giving silent thanks that she had been the last to arrive . |
| 15 | She had been the last to use it , when she unlocked it to get the morphia for Mrs Richards . |
| 16 | Philippa was ousted by her uncle , William IV 's younger brother , but in the eyes of her descendants she had been the rightful Countess of Toulouse and periodically they went to war to re-assert that claim . |
| 17 | Guilty that she had been the lucky one . |
| 18 | She 's been the middle school , she 's been for a visit to the middle school |