Example sentences of "she have been [adj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the poem is conventional in several respects , it ends critically , not with the shepherdess cheered up by a song or by the sight of another attractive shepherd , but with Daphne recognizing that she has been gullible about her young man . |
| 2 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 3 | The only thing she 'd been worried about was Jake finding out . |
| 4 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 5 | Yes , she 'd been worried about Nicolo 's intentions , but he 'd gone out of his way to tell her — to show her — that he was n't the least bit interested in her as a woman . |
| 6 | She had been right about Short ; the way to get him to listen was to treat him as if he were a human being , which he clearly was n't . |
| 7 | She had been right about the importance of Brückner 's story . |
| 8 | The storeroom ( yes , she had been right about that after all ) was not very big and not very well lit . |
| 9 | But she had been right about the other thing , so maybe she was right about this . |
| 10 | So she had been right about his mood ! |
| 11 | So she had been right about Rebecca after all , she thought as they walked back towards the main part of the house . |
| 12 | She could remember the incident quite clearly , although the circumstances surrounding it had vanished into oblivion , beyond recall of any form of analysis : it had been early afternoon , so clearly not a party incident — maybe they had had lunch together ? — and she had been anxious about picking up children from school . |
| 13 | She had been uneasy about the visit ; the cottage , as always , drew her , despite the fact that she was n't sure of Marshall . |
| 14 | The lady remembered my visit well , said she had been concerned about me and confided that , to provide me with a good meal , she had walked the five miles into Lochinver and back to buy fresh fish . |
| 15 | ‘ We 'll need wood for a fire , ’ returned Isabel with aplomb , not about to admit that she had been worried about him . |
| 16 | She admits she had been worried about the consequences ever since even though hospital scans seemed to show everything was all right . |
| 17 | What my source was up to , I have no idea ; all I do know is that while the world was waiting to discover how Mrs Thatcher was ever going to be toppled , the most unlikely possibility was that she might admit she had been wrong about something and ask for her P45 without more ado . |
| 18 | She had thought he would be happy about Mrs Gotobed 's message because she would have been , but she had been wrong about that . |
| 19 | He sounded angry ; she had been wrong about the amusement . |
| 20 | After all , she had been wrong about everything else . |
| 21 | If she had been wrong about him … ? |