Example sentences of "[conj] her [noun sg] have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She and her family had been in the States over a year now , and had moved from Boston to New York . |
| 3 | A customer asked Sarah if her brother had been near Guernica in Spain when bombs were dropped on it from aeroplanes . |
| 4 | She had tried to curb it , but her tongue had been like acid . |
| 5 | And yet their brands were no different and no better than what could be bought here , because her father had been to Harrods store in London and had a contract with them , and they were very good to deal with , for they gave the lowest prices to orders from clubs , messes , hotels and buyers . |
| 6 | Esther was also offered places at both universities , and chose Cambridge because it offered her a scholarship , and because her brother had been at King 's , and because she heard an owl hoot thrice in the college garden when she retired to her narrow bed after the glass of wine with Flora Piercy . |
| 7 | It was empty , as empty as her head had been in Seville when she had allowed herself to fall in love so easily . |