Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] she [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My billetor Mrs Webster told me that she had been employed there before her marriage and ‘ printed registered envelopes in two sizes for ten years , and liked the work ’ . |
| 2 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 3 | When I asked her how easy or difficult she had found the exercise , Sylvia told me that she had been quite surprised at how simple it had been . |
| 4 | She told me that she had been present when Balbinder was tested by the educational psychologist . |
| 5 | ( Her niece told me that she had been particularly good at her job . ) |
| 6 | It seems to be almost a perception of physics as an ‘ arts ’ subject ; indeed , Jane told me that she had been equally good at arts and sciences but had chosen sciences because of the job and university prospects . |
| 7 | Then a week later my wife told me that she 'd been abused by her brother . |
| 8 | And it was she who told me that she 'd been , that 's where they 'd been . |
| 9 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 10 | She glanced up , met those extraordinary eyes , and saw from the mockery in them that she 'd been right . |
| 11 | She has designed the most wonderful costumes for me and she 's been a good friend . |
| 12 | But er but er yeah , so but like , she 's been saying to me cos she 's been thinking about whether she is or not she er she 's been like like everywhere there 's babys and prams and everywhe , on the telly and everything , do you know what I mean ? |
| 13 | Dr Anthony Storr , author of the recently-published Churchill 's Black Dog , in which he showed how senior politicans often turned stresses of up-bringing into strengths , said yesterday : ‘ I 'm interested because the gates must mean that she 's feeling increasingly insecure and threatened in a simple , straightforward way ; and that 's an interesting phenomenum in itself because she 's been so absolutely certain of herself . |
| 14 | That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week ? ’ |
| 15 | Jane uses the car then on Friday did n't she when she 's been hairdressers ? |
| 16 | fought hard for them but she 's been very |
| 17 | you can guarantee it she goes to shops about eleven o'clock , she do n't come back till one because she 's been talking on shops , that 's her routine you know ? |
| 18 | Not his old one as she had been promised . |
| 19 | She had started the lessons because her mother had insisted and she now continued them because she loved being with Miss Hatherby . |
| 20 | Instead , feeling as though with each step she took she was treading on her dreams , destroying them forever , she followed him mutely back to the sofa and seated herself where she had been before . |
| 21 | She admitted to herself that she had been partly to blame . |
| 22 | Kate remembered all that , and then she said to herself that she had been meant to remember it . |
| 23 | For a long time she lay awake , staring into the darkness and telling herself that she had been absolutely crazy to let this happen . |
| 24 | Yesterday the Merseyside Police Federation Chairman , George Crichton , said that PC Harrison would have been better able to defend herself if she had been armed with an American-style side handled baton . |
| 25 | She had been well able to look after herself since she had been about seven , and , when she came to think about it , she knew herself to be more effective than most men . |
| 26 | But if she 'd been frank from the outset and had admitted to him that she 'd been sent by his stepmother with the plea for him to visit her the result would have been short and sharp . |
| 27 | Crooking an index finger , she summoned a waiter and proceeded to inform him that she had been waiting fully half an hour for her pancakes and that it would not do . |
| 28 | Frankly , it had amazed him that she had been able to ride at all that afternoon , given how wasted she was the previous night , but then she was quite a determined little thing . |
| 29 | And yet , in her case , it did not appear to him that she had been struck down by any kind of ordinary post-natal depression , as Adams 's next words seemed to confirm . |
| 30 | She noticed things about him that she had been forced to ignore . |