Example sentences of "[that] she [vb past] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the quiet of his own skull he called it manly , but he would never have used such a word to her , not only because she was privately decorous but also because the way she talked about her children made him sense that she dreaded being thought lesbian . |
| 2 | There was no blood , no sign that she had been touched . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The knowledge that her mother loved her was not sufficient to quench her rage , for she felt that she had been made to grow up too soon and had no idea that her mother regretted her own inability to speak openly and lose her temper . |
| 5 | Even now that she had been made a director of the firm , Laura was well aware that it did n't mean that she had a job for life . |
| 6 | The bad news was that for some reason our shore watchers had missed her actual departure and could only guess that she had been gone about an hour . |
| 7 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 8 | It was not often , in her timid life , that she had been wanted . |
| 9 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 10 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 11 | When the letter arrived telling her that she had been accepted to read History of Art , she shouted ‘ Hooray ! ’ and flung her arms around her brother , then burst into uncontrollable tears of relief . |
| 12 | On Jan. 31 , 1990 , Thatcher admitted that she had been misled about the extent of the subversion campaign , while on Feb. 7 the House of Commons select committee on defence announced that it was to hold an inquiry into the MOD 's handling of the affair . |
| 13 | And she did admit that she had been skipping things , you know , and erm I hoped it would go on alright , that was a couple of months ago . |
| 14 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 15 | She took little account of time , and was hardly even aware that she had been placed in Lady Merchiston 's old bedchamber . |
| 16 | Mrs. Morgan testified that she had been dragged by her husband from the bedroom which she shared with her small son . |
| 17 | As the door closed behind the girl , Emily somehow felt that she had been bested . |
| 18 | Her defence was that she had been influenced to sign by duress on the part of her husband . |
| 19 | Surely he was n't implying that she had been trying out her feminine wiles on Sam ? |
| 20 | Flavia managed to recall that she had been asked to dinner and that the time was eight . |
| 21 | Mrs. Steed 's statement , too , dealt with her lack of any recollection of the occasion or knowledge that she had been asked to sign a transfer of the property . |
| 22 | This happened to our Corporal Jane , who arrived back in camp after a brief visit to one of the neighbouring air fields to find that she had been posted to the Met Office at Group Headquarters , Huntingdon , and the corporal there , Rosemary Hilton , had received a reciprocal posting to Bourn . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There she told officers that she had been stripped , raped and abused by the men of the First Battalion . |
| 25 | She murmured that Nicola Sharpe had told her editor that she had been given a really good story by someone in the Drugs Squad . |
| 26 | She was so pleased to learn that Barbara Coleman was eager to talk to her again , and that she had been given the perfect reason for spending part of her day revelling in Chagall 's colour , that she smiled as she cut inland towards Maurin 's gallery . |
| 27 | Having been reassured on this point , he had grudgingly accepted Ellen 's explanation that she had been given leave to visit him to see how he was coping alone , and had promptly put his daughter and her companion to work . |
| 28 | Dr Marshall , 60 , said it was disgraceful that she had been given little more than 48 hours to tidy her office . |
| 29 | She asserted that she had been done out of her rights to the ownership of Mrs Ferrar 's London house , which had been promised to her on the old lady 's death . |
| 30 | Diana not only ostentatiously wore outfits that she had been seen in before — to knock a few criticisms on the head about the money she spent on her wardrobe — but she also seized the opportunity to kill off a few more misconceptions . |