Example sentences of "[verb] she have [been] " in BNC.

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1 At Usher she had been top dog .
2 But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital .
3 The new pleading , so far as relevant to the claim against the building society , constituted ( i ) a plea of non est factum based on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know she had been appointed attorney and did not know she was signing a transfer of the property ; ( ii ) a plea that the transaction effected by the transfer was not a sale and was not within the power conferred by the power of attorney .
4 He could not know she had been on the beach long enough to see what had happened .
5 She must know she had been overheard .
6 ‘ The whole idea is she wo n't know she 's been done .
7 Wendy Almon went to pick up two-year-old Eva , but found she 'd been abducted
8 I expect she 's been too busy to answer , he thought , what with the war and everything .
9 I expect she 's been bored lately . ’
10 ‘ I expect she 's been sitting too long in the sun , ’ she said .
11 They say she 'd been depressed in recent days
12 Police say she 'd been strangled .
13 Yeah , well what I think he , I think he will emulsion over it cos I mean the ceiling 's a bit , as you say she 'd been a smoker
14 They say she 's been able to transplant a gorilla 's brain into a human body , or maybe a human brain into a gorilla 's body . ’
15 Cos I say she 's been there thirty years so she must do alright , everybody knows
16 By the time Chloe was rescued she 'd been horribly burned .
17 A MOTHER who returned home to find she had been burgled , collapsed and died minutes after the discovery .
18 Police and ambulancemen who rushed to Birmingham 's New Street station expected to find she had been killed .
19 It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that .
20 They believed she had been murdered by the Grantley Ripper although as yet no body had turned up .
21 But the prosecution says she 'd been badly beaten around the head before she died .
22 Julie says she has been assured he wo n't have to serve the full sentence .
23 Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act .
24 My Lady Dedlock says she has been ‘ bored to death ’ .
25 The rape of virgins is a crime imputed by a woman to the man by whom she says she has been forcibly ravished against the king 's peace .
26 But local mum Carol Lambird says she has been locked in a wrangle with Durham County Council for the last two years after her son Christopher was diagnosed as dyslexic .
27 She apologizes for being thirty seconds late and says she 's been having her nails done .
28 A woman with leukaemia says she 's been sacked from her job as a secretary because of her illness .
29 She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds .
30 She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds .
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