Example sentences of "she have [been] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since talking to me , she has been given a council house about fifteen miles from her family home , so at last she and Sean can get on with their lives together . |
| 2 | I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened . |
| 3 | It gives her a role as a pseudo-ambassador to the region and she has been granted a special travel visa allowing access to the area without the normal restrictions on foreigners . |
| 4 | She has been appointed a ‘ Goodwill Ambassador ’ by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees after her work to help children caught up in the conflict in Bosnia . |
| 5 | Following the burglary , she has been offered a place in a warden controlled block in Milton Keynes . |
| 6 | A receptionist assures a potential guest that she has been allocated a room with a bathroom/w.c. and a balcony , when the room in fact allocated has none of these facilities ; s.14(1) also applies to this situation . |
| 7 | Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door . |
| 8 | She 'd been given a rail warrant to Lowestoft , where the RTO had handed her over to the navy . |
| 9 | It was as if she 'd been given a glimpse of paradise , and then had it barred to her forever . |
| 10 | But , on getting her act together later the next day , Laura had been appalled to discover that not only had Ross already left for Australia — but she 'd been given a small attic room next to the children 's nursery . |
| 11 | Without consulting her it began to move faster , inciting her lover to a rhythm which he responded to triumphantly , accelerating in time with their heartbeats , taking her with him towards the culmination she 'd been given a foretaste of , which paled in comparison to the flooding rapture which overtook her seconds before Penry gasped , stiffened , then crushed her in his arms as their breathing slowed in the shared diminuendo of the aftermath . |
| 12 | If she 'd been given a test she could have been treated . |
| 13 | No , that would be I do n't really think of that when I , I do n't think I do n't think anybody went to see her , but I think she 'd been done a bit better . |
| 14 | But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got . |
| 15 | And then I said , then she 'd been bought a a hundred pound of leg waxing machine . |
| 16 | ‘ Then she told me she 'd been offered a part in Jane Eyre at Warrington rep and did I think she ought to accept . |
| 17 | ‘ She 'd been offered a job in America , nanny to a widower with two small children . |
| 18 | As soon as she 'd entered the hotel she 'd been handed a white envelope containing a fax message . |
| 19 | Although in law a female fiancée can enter Britain quite freely ( without an entry certificate ) she had been held up , questioned again and again , and late in the evening she had been given a sexual examination by officials who she thought might be doctors . |
| 20 | She had been given a programme credit for making dresses several years before . |
| 21 | After all , she had been given a brain to think with while these patriots were being force-fed The Thoughts of Spiro Agnew , The World According to William F. Buckley and Killing Commies for God and Country . |
| 22 | Then she kissed Auntie Lou on the cheek and said , ‘ Thank you , oh I do thank you , ’ and Auntie Lou smiled and blushed as if she had been given a present . |
| 23 | She had been given a plain black dress with a crisp white apron and a mob-cap . |
| 24 | She murmured that Nicola Sharpe had told her editor that she had been given a really good story by someone in the Drugs Squad . |
| 25 | She had been given a telephone number in France : Cassis 08.79.30 , Les Roches Blanches , a hotel . |
| 26 | They were beautiful , these Andalucían horses , and she had been given a long lecture on the subject by Ana , who seemed to be an expert . |
| 27 | She had been given a chance of survival . |
| 28 | She had been born a male , but had later undergone sexual conversion surgery and had lived as a woman for eighteen years . |
| 29 | ‘ She is unwomanly , ’ Zurachina said , as if she anticipated his objections , ‘ and were it not for her beauty I would wish that she had been born a man . ’ |
| 30 | During the last few days she had been sent a poison pen letter , had her life turned upside down , and now she was in the arms of the man whom she had been absolutely determined to divorce . |