Example sentences of "[vb pp] that she [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 2 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 3 | It was even claimed that she had been poisoned by an African wife by whom Maclean was credited with having had several children . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she replied , and because she had almost added that she had been going to travel with her sister — which would surely then have led to her boring him out of his skull with all of the rest of it , ‘ All alone , ’ she added with feigned cheerfulness . |
| 5 | The court 's heard that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 6 | Miss Marshall complained of unlawful sex discrimination and her case went to the European Court of Justice where it was decided that she had been the subject of such unlawful discrimination . |
| 7 | A post mortem later revealed that she had been strangled . |
| 8 | But it could be argued that she has been placed in a high turn-over establishment because she possesses an authoritarian style of leadership . |
| 9 | The police initially strongly suspected that she had been involved ; her story kept changing and was filled with inconsistencies . |
| 10 | If her brothers even suspected that she had been with a boy , all hell would break loose . |
| 11 | But now , when her mind travelled back , it was clear from the young man 's behaviour and some of the comments he had made that she had been suffering from myopia . |
| 12 | The two ladies had each paid 500 dollars for the privilege of a ten-minute consultation , during which one was told that she had been a quartz crystal in a former life while the other was informed that she had been an E flat ! |
| 13 | One , Martha Barratt , had been very noisy at times , and he had been told that she had been found with a knife in her bed . |
| 14 | A community leader had to be removed from the area under police escort when it was alleged that she had been used as a police informer . |
| 15 | At the weekend she had visited her parents ' home and spent some time with her sister , Jennifer , but she had found that she had been unable to tell them about David Markham . |
| 16 | Alan Ayres , 53 , showed underwater video film of his wrecked boat , Pescado , which he said proved that she had been sunk by a sub . |
| 17 | Katherine put down the empty glass with a start , she had n't realized that she had been drinking . |
| 18 | The two ladies had each paid 500 dollars for the privilege of a ten-minute consultation , during which one was told that she had been a quartz crystal in a former life while the other was informed that she had been an E flat ! |