Example sentences of "that she [verb] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He confirmed that she had been invited for both the church service and the lunch . |
| 2 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 3 | Checking through her notes , the doctor saw that she had been treated for vaginal thrush on several occasions . |
| 4 | And in Amabel 's experience it had always been the wife who complained of it , Ethel Lord , for instance , fretting herself into a decline , or very nearly , when her husband had taken to spending so much time in Leeds ; Maria Colclough turning to religion because her man emerged so rarely from his counting house ; even strident Lizzie Braithwaite complaining that she had been neglected for the sake of the business . |
| 5 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 6 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 7 | It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone . |
| 8 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 9 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
| 10 | Now that she 's been nominated for an Oscar , it would be natural for there to be competition between them . |