Example sentences of "that her [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Emily knew that her friend had been manipulative , she wondered whether she herself had been selfish , and should have forgotten about the loan . |
| 2 | She suspected that her friend had been more ill than she admitted . |
| 3 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 4 | She did n't want them to know that her life had been quite a privileged one . |
| 5 | Isobel began to feel that her life had been the wrong way round , that Africa had been no training at all , with its comparatively easy , impersonal requirement of Christian love , for these savagely difficult demands for daughterly love . |
| 6 | She knew then that her secret had been well kept . |
| 7 | The chances are that her shock has been compounded by an unexpectedly extreme reaction . |
| 8 | The faculty argued that her treatment had been exactly the same as that of any other applicant , regardless of his or her race or colour , who sought to join the bar . |
| 9 | Why was he insisting that her behaviour had been dishonourable ? |
| 10 | Having investigated , she found that her luggage had been unpacked , her night-wear and toilet things put in their appropriate places , and her clothes hung neatly in the walk-in wardrobe . |
| 11 | She felt that her success had been very much due to the ‘ enterprise society ’ . |
| 12 | It seemed to her that her heart had been crushed in metal hands , icy cold and shining . |
| 13 | Clare noticed that her hair had been cropped shorter than before , so that it was almost like fur on her head . |
| 14 | She knows nothing , she insists , and was ‘ shocked ’ when the police pounded on her door in the middle of the night to tell her that her ex-husband had been killed . |
| 15 | David Pipe , the Jockey Club 's Director of Public Affairs , would not comment on suggestions that Her Honour had been administered a fast-acting tranquiliser . |
| 16 | Though she clearly had made him angry , Constance knew that her decision had been right . |
| 17 | The Headmistress at St Mary 's , Geraldine Keegan said she was delighted that her school had been selected to provide a delegate for the Brussels event . |
| 18 | It came almost as a shock to realize that her night had been peaceful — there had been no dreams , no nightmares , and the bottle by her bed remained untouched . |
| 19 | Ianthe was sure it must mean that her uncle had been unable to come-for some comparatively harmless reason- and that there was to be no service that evening . |
| 20 | ‘ Could you tell her that Mr Warden 's neighbour phoned to say that her uncle 's been taken to hospital ? ’ |
| 21 | It was n't the woman 's fault that her lamp had been broken . |
| 22 | It is through her writings that her influence has been greatest . |
| 23 | She showed up in her Rolls in the car park of the supermarket , and , although there was a lot of nodding and smiling and remarks about coincidences , it was pretty clear that her presence had been arranged for someone 's benefit . |
| 24 | She was then put in an armchair only to be told a few minutes later that her operation had been cancelled because the hospital was ‘ short staffed ’ . |
| 25 | Written in careful English , it had told her little except that her name had been suggested to him by a Kevin Roberts , who had tutored briefly at her old art school , and knew their London gallery . |
| 26 | How is the teacher to tell that her teaching has been successful ? |
| 27 | I felt that her character had been revealed and , what was more , that she 'd been using me . |
| 28 | One died recently , but she could n't ever come to terms with the fact that her house had been burgled , and that the er , that some of her most valued contents had been taken . |
| 29 | Constance was lost for words , overwhelmed that her worth had been recognised . |
| 30 | Almost two years elapsed before even the initial visit was made , making the applicant think that her application had been turned down . |