Example sentences of "[verb] she have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Think of your sister ; would you want her to have been forced into that way of life ? ’ |
| 32 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 33 | Suitably armed , the Princess felt confident enough to write a long and detailed rejoinder to her irate father-in-law which effectively spelled out the way she felt she had been treated by husband , the Royal Family and their courtiers . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | He was making her act like a gauche schoolgirl — Aurora Blake , who could hold thousands spellbound with the power of her voice , who could mix happily with kings and commoners — stammering apologetically because a man who had wandered unwanted and uninvited into her garden knew she 'd been looking at him ! |
| 36 | They knew she 'd been drinking on the way in . |
| 37 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 38 | But Navratilova knew she had been outplayed by Sukova , a player she had beaten in 25 of 29 earlier meetings . |
| 39 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 40 | She caught her breath , a strange little movement in her face betraying the fact that she thought she had been tricked by him . |
| 41 | The Nefertari was a veteran , it was said , of something between 30 and 40 years on the river ; someone thought she had been built on the hull of a much older Nile steamer , and another that she might be a pharaoh 's reconstituted sun-boat , disinterred , like the others , near the Great Pyramid . |
| 42 | Oliver insisted she had been followed from Fleet Street and that it was likely the police had tapped her office telephone . |
| 43 | Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember . |
| 44 | Lady Dawn Kennedy , 31 , was remanded in custody accused of falsely claiming she had been raped by three men . |
| 45 | Attention was first drawn to them in 1988 when a 17-year-old resident complained she had been held in continuous confinement for seven weeks and forcibly injected with a sedative . |
| 46 | She said she had been threatened with hundreds of pickets if she did not reinstate Miss Owen . |
| 47 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
| 48 | The faculty denied having discriminated against her and said she had been treated in the same way as all others seeking membership of the bar . |
| 49 | She said she had been assaulted by a taxi driver and told me : ‘ It was n't my fault ’ . |
| 50 | The eight-year-old , who gave evidence by closed-circuit television , said she had been tied to a bed by the men , who wore masks and ‘ did bad things ’ to her after putting Sellotape over her mouth . |
| 51 | Mrs Hepburn said she had been living with her husband at the time of the alleged crimes but was now in the process of divorcing him . |
| 52 | Mrs Ruddock , who said she had been nominated as spokesperson for the wives , told reporters : ‘ Some wives are working , but you can speak to any wife , and they will tell you they are 100 per cent behind Terry . ’ |
| 53 | Allred said she had been retained by the divorced parents of the boy to represent his interests . |
| 54 | She said she had been hired as a nanny by an English couple called Wilson who lived in the city . |
| 55 | Desperate Jatinder Puri said she had been left with no alternative after her husband had been refused an entry visa three times . |
| 56 | Margo Hawes , of Horsforth , said she had been coming to the ballet for years . |
| 57 | Prosecutor Edwin Beltrami said she had been arrested after failing to appear before Thames magistrates , London , in May . |
| 58 | Mina said Gustav said she 'd been killed by Allied planes . |
| 59 | Alina said she 'd been raised in the country . |
| 60 | He said she 'd been raped at 18 by a Lebanese man in London . |