Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , the sensible thing would have been to go to her room , would n't it ? |
| 2 | She had been joined by her two travelling companions . |
| 3 | The elderly diabetic lady had just been tucked into her bed when the doors were opened for visitors . |
| 4 | A woman with leukaemia says she 's been sacked from her job as a secretary because of her illness . |
| 5 | Two days later , the most beautiful bloom burst forth which appeared to mimic a flow 3D diagram Margaret had been producing on her computer ! |
| 6 | A white cloth had been placed over her unpillowed head hiding her injuries , but the room was filled with an overpowering stench like smouldering wool . |
| 7 | Her body was bruised , from the beatings she had received , and a balaclava had been placed over her head . |
| 8 | It prompted Diana to speak to a lawyer and write to her father-in-law spelling out the way she felt she had been treated by her husband , the Royal Family and their courtiers . |
| 9 | This regressive phenomenon has also been highlighted by Her Majesty 's Chief Inspector of Prisons in a report on Feltham Youth Custody Centre . |
| 10 | It was surprising , now he came to think of it , that this had n't scared him off , but he 'd been lulled by her flippancy . |
| 11 | There is a well known Peanuts cartoon by Charles Schulz in which a girl is sitting at her school desk querying the C-grade she 's been given for her ‘ sculpture ’ made from a coat-hanger . |
| 12 | Among them , she included the daughter of a law professor in Bologna , a certain Novella , who had been taught by her father , ‘ not quite sixty years ago ’ , because he disagreed with his contemporaries prejudice against women 's education . |
| 13 | Here the unconscious mind takes the more specific form of Christabel 's sexuality and sexual desires , which she has been taught by her upbringing to disregard , and even to suppress , seeing them as the dark and evil side of human nature . |
| 14 | A more carefully prepared training programme and an easier tournament schedule have helped the world No.2 to win three important tournaments in recent months , whereas Le Moignan appears to have been struggling with her motivation . |
| 15 | On the landing , she led the way to the small room she had been using as her office . |
| 16 | After the incident of the doll , at irregular intervals other objects precious to her had disappeared from her room or been broken in her absence . |
| 17 | I had the feeling that she was married and had children , but the front room had been designated for her activities , which took place on Thursday , Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 18 | How many of these songs could she have been singing to her daddy ? |
| 19 | It is grossly unfair that she should have been sentenced to life having been provoked by her partner over a period into killing him . |
| 20 | But by now the police had found out about Lady Margaret Illingworth , a rich aunt who 'd been stripped of her fortune after she 'd gone senile . |
| 21 | For the first time in her life she felt as if the veil had been stripped from her idol and she was looking at the real person who hid away inside a beautiful body , seeing her through the eyes of others who had no family love for her to colour what they saw . |
| 22 | For she 'd literally been shaken to her roots when the clothing firm she 'd worked for for the past six and a half years had collapsed , making the entire work-force redundant . |
| 23 | She knew nothing of her condition ; the Colonel slipped the pills she had been prescribed into her hot drink at night , and she was unaware that she was taking medication . |
| 24 | When Tess arrived home the following afternoon a letter had already been received by her mother . |
| 25 | C&P has already completed its application forms for these , which has been received by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution [ HMIP ] . |
| 26 | She had driven over to him after the metamorphosis had been completed to her satisfaction — not just the punk hair-do , short spiky , crimson-dyed and outrageous — and the make-up , orange domino mask and a curve of ochre on the cheeks — but clothes , too , tight , tarty , as far removed from the Victorian image as possible . |
| 27 | He rattled the necklace of shells that had been wound around her neck . |
| 28 | Joanna has been interviewed at her home in Harpenden , Herts , and in a crisis suite at Hemel Hempstead police headquarters , designed to provide a relaxing atmosphere . |
| 29 | Merrill was drying her hair on Saturday afternoon when Diane from the next flat knocked at the door and held out a letter addressed to Merrill , explaining that it had been included with her junk mail which she had ignored until a moment ago . |
| 30 | Sartre had initially been attracted to her work because it seemed to demonstrate his own concern with the inauthenticity of human relationships , yet he would later reject her fiction simply on the basis that her novels are set in an upper-middle-class Parisian milieu . |