Example sentences of "she have [be] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sad thing was she had been a noted dancer in her day . |
| 32 | She had been a former child actress , making her film debut at the age of four , and at twelve she appeared in the London production of The Sound of Music . |
| 33 | She had been a good wife , too . |
| 34 | She had been a good companion ; she did not deserve this from him . |
| 35 | She had been a good woman . |
| 36 | Behavioural precursors of schizophrenia included a poor emotional rapport in the psychiatric interview , and parental observations that he or she had been a passive baby , with a short attention span in childhood , and often impolite behaviour , while school reports often noted that the child was isolated , uneasy about criticism , easily upset , and disturbed the class ( Parnas et al. , 1982 ) . |
| 37 | She had been a little brick , Doreen . |
| 38 | She had been a little waif then , in her Yorkshire homespun . |
| 39 | She had been a top model — her legs alone were insured for a five figure sum and he had enough hanging on him to bankrupt a smaller company . |
| 40 | Dana told me she had been a tougher nut for Daine to crack , and had had her mind scrambled and unscrambled several times . |
| 41 | She had been a true sister to Ryan . |
| 42 | Left wing Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside from 1974–87 , she had been a senior officer in the agricultural workers union and was chair for eight years of the Campaign Group of Labour Mps . |
| 43 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 44 | If she had been an ordinary teacher , trying to teach an ordinary sedentary subject like history or Latin , she would have been mercilessly flouted and mocked , but as it was she managed to get by . |
| 45 | It turned out that she and her husband were experts on reincarnation and ran a sort of reincarnation centre in Switzerland and she had been an Egyptian princess — before , you know — and written books about it . |
| 46 | I was already aware at the age of eleven of my mother 's political background : she had been an active Communist until 1965 . |
| 47 | But yet I was suspended , right , for a long time and she after she came back all she had is a little scratch there but they took 'er to 'ospital just to make it seem serious and she come back in school the next day . |
| 48 | She 's been a grand help ! ’ |
| 49 | I can talk to her in a way I could n't before and she 's been a great help over the past year . |
| 50 | She has designed the most wonderful costumes for me and she 's been a good friend . |
| 51 | She 's been a good friend to me . ’ |
| 52 | And I saw your mother and I was going on saying all your virtues and how she 's been a good girl , how does that , how er , how erm self discipline she was and all this is on the tape |
| 53 | ‘ She 's been a silly woman and now she 's regretting it , ’ he said . |
| 54 | No , she has n't age , because she thinks she 's she 's been a big girl , and she 's now a little girl . |
| 55 | She has a dental appointment this afternoon and she 's been a little bit nervous about it . |
| 56 | and , and Valerie and now they 've bought the daughter a car , she 's been a naughty girl really , they 've given her everything have n't they ? |
| 57 | She 's been an absolute brick |
| 58 | Toddler walks with her had been a superhuman test of patience as she squatted by every puddle , slowly stirring the water with sticks , and picked up myriads of stones , tenderly brushing them free of earth and inserting them with infinite laboriousness into pockets already grinding with pebbles . |
| 59 | Penry 's wonderful , gratifying desire for her had been a healing fire which had cured her forever of the wounds dealt by Guy . |