Example sentences of "she have been [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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1 | She has been based at home for the last 10 years , collecting water , doing the cooking and waiting to get married . |
2 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
3 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
4 | Judith had once confided that she too had an uncertain grasp of the past , though she 'd been drunk at the time , and had denied it vehemently when he 'd raised the subject again . |
5 | well I think Dawn is quite happy now , I mean I think she felt as though she 'd been rushed at first , but I mean |
6 | For most of the week she 'd been seated at her desk , wading through piles of old G.W. design books , taking notes , making sketches , dashing off diagrams , in an effort to come up with some common thread in the mish-mash of styles that dragged dully across the pages . |
7 | Rory jumped as though she 'd been shot at the sound of the lazily amused voice materialising apparently out of nowhere . |
8 | He said she 'd been raped at 18 by a Lebanese man in London . |
9 | Used to creating and presenting ideas to a wide variety of clients , she 'd grown proud of her capacity to keep her head under pressure , yet from the moment she 'd crossed the threshold of this impressive room she 'd been put at a distinct disadvantage . |
10 | She 'd been found at last . |
11 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
12 | She had been rededicated at St Luke 's a year previous to that . |
13 | They suspected she had been poisoned at the party . |
14 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
15 | She had been found at two that afternoon by a party searching the Pertsey and north-west region of Vangmoor . |
16 | From the beginning she had been angered at having to take the girl in , for Lavender had been lovely , and Liti detested her for it . |
17 | She had been propositioned at that last party by a sub-editor with bad breath , who seeing her maimed and brought down had been swift to seize the opportunity . |
18 | She had been married at Henry III 's instigation to Henry , son of Richard of Cornwall , in 1269 . |
19 | Born in London of an Irish mother and a Scottish father , she had been educated at a convent school in North London . |
20 | She had been , it seemed , to endless dinners , parties and weddings on her own , she had been spotted at local cinemas with friends , sitting in the stalls alongside ordinary members of the public , and she had been seen on the town , at pop concerts , and in restaurants , with handsome young men . |