Example sentences of "she have been [adj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 She 'd been half-expecting a trial and then a labour camp but instead , there was an ambulance .
2 She was sitting calmly in bed like that 's where she 'd been all the time .
3 She 'd been such an idiot , had n't she ?
4 How could she have been such a fool ?
5 Anything that kept her from running into Nicolo Sabatini was absolutely fine , which was why she had been delighted a few mornings later at the breakfast-table when he 'd told her he would be away for a few days .
6 Mam would never guess how brave she had been all the way home .
7 Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success .
8 She had been such a fine woman .
9 Sometimes they had speculated on how she would develop but not often : mostly she was taken for granted because she had been such a quiet child , sitting dozily in her pram outside the Dog and Duck while the sun went down .
10 She had been such an innocent victim from the start it seemed only fair to help her all they could now .
11 Still , he was young and she had been afraid the house would be full of only old people .
12 She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married .
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