Example sentences of "have been [prep] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 2 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 3 | I 'd been with her for 12 hours at the delivery of her beautiful baby daughter . |
| 4 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 5 | In her own way , she had been every bit as insulting to him as he 'd been to her . |
| 6 | And I was with her till I left her somewhere in Southampton , I 'd been in her a good while too . |
| 7 | It might have been for her , but I thought she could have shown some gratitude , considering the work her stepmother and I had gone to . |
| 8 | Cecilia reflected on how massive the explosion must have been for her and that beautiful girl to have heard it up here in West Hampstead . |
| 9 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 10 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 11 | Since the marks on Mary 's body were not necessarily inconsistent with Thornton 's claim that she had consented to sexual intercourse , and since the times on the morning in question when Thornton was seen walking home to Bromwich suggested he could not have been with her when she met her death , the jury found him not guilty . |
| 12 | His hand could only have been on her for a matter of seconds , if that , but when he released her she felt as though her skin had been scorched |
| 13 | Again her mathematics O level was already a re-sit and again it might have been beyond her at that stage . |
| 14 | he 'd have been before her would n't he ? |
| 15 | Here , she was ‘ commanded in her heart ’ to go over the sea with her daughter , who was not at all pleased : ‘ there was no one so much against her as her daughter , who ought most to have been with her ’ . |
| 16 | Well then her mother died last Feb. with some awful cancer and her daughter had been beside her when she died and probably learnt then about the secret which must have burdened her poor mother 's life for so many years . |
| 17 | Her threat to leave the job had been an idle one , and whatever ill feeling there had been between her and Jenny must have been papered over . |
| 18 | She was able to let him go as he was now because she had clarified and confirmed what he had been to her . |
| 19 | How cruel he had been to her ! |
| 20 | Convenience , that 's what it had been for her — little more . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's how dependent he had been on her . ’ |
| 22 | First her sister had forgotten to inform Nora , then this policeman said Nora had been with her and Jerome in the Jaguar . |
| 23 | He said , ‘ I had been with her for three years , in love . |
| 24 | She waited and waited , the feeling of living a nightmare that had been with her ever since Thursday intensifying . |
| 25 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 26 | Lord Archer and Lord Healey , both in Santa Claus outfits , had been with her at an event in honour of Headway , the National Head Injuries Association . |
| 27 | He had the notion that she was mocking him , and the anger he had felt earlier returned in a different form , a determination to excel , to beat other men who had been with her . |
| 28 | She stared away from them and up beyond the cage towards the grey sky , and Creggan saw in her eyes a longing and a hope that he sensed had been with her all her long life , and was with her even now when he saw she was so near death . |
| 29 | ‘ Your spy ? ’ she gibed , recalling that Cavell had been with her when another DJ had telephoned to ask her out to a street market that only operated at night . |
| 30 | He came to me He had a problem , he and I were good friends and he said that erm that this one girl s erm Michelle , was his favourite wife and that he had been with her since erm she was twelve . |