Example sentences of "she have been [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been through a marriage , a divorce , and a serious love affair ; learnt Russian , written regularly for a local paper and taught a young child disabled by a stroke to read again . |
| 2 | A spokeswoman there said last night : ‘ She has been through a terrible ordeal . |
| 3 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 4 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |
| 5 | Just a fortnight earlier , she 'd been on a course called Heart Start , which taught her the basics of resuscitation . |
| 6 | She 'd been under a spell — she must have been . |
| 7 | For heaven 's sake , she 'd been under a bit of strain of late , so what was more natural than that , having at last met the man she had been at pains to meet — actually being out walking with him , and on such a lovely sharp but sunny day — she should — er — relax a little ? |
| 8 | She 'd been to a lot of trouble finding something original , something you 'd enjoy . ’ |
| 9 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 10 | She 'd been in a car accident , she was there , er broken pelvis |
| 11 | She 'd been within a yard of me and not recognized me . |
| 12 | She had been at a Women 's Aid conference in London all weekend , and she was tired and depressed . |
| 13 | If her brothers even suspected that she had been with a boy , all hell would break loose . |
| 14 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 15 | She had been on a bus once and had seen Simon in a posh car pulling out of an ‘ executive ’ housing estate opposite the boating lake . |
| 16 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 17 | Ever since she had met him she had been on a roller-coaster , going up and down and swerving from one emotional crisis to another . |
| 18 | She had been on a refresher course . |
| 19 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 20 | For a moment Frau Nordern was tempted to lie , to say that she had been to a meeting , or a mother . |
| 21 | It was so long since she had been to a party like this . |
| 22 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 23 | Before Lesley met Alan , she had been to a party where she got drunk and ended up sleeping with someone without knowing it . |
| 24 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 25 | She felt as if she had been through a millrace , buffeted and whirled , but the one clear thought that ran through the inner tumult was the finally accepted fact that , with all her heart , she had wanted to say yes to Luke . |
| 26 | But she had been in a coma , she was n't mad . |
| 27 | She had been in a state of shock . |
| 28 | If Gloria , she had been in a smash . |
| 29 | As she moved , her body ached as if she had been in a fight . |
| 30 | She had been in a squat in London but had thought it would be pleasant to have some sea air for the baby for the summer . |