Example sentences of "she have [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not saying she has been subject to a temptation to exaggerate , but I merely remind you of those matters which can exist in relation to a woman 's evidence . ’ |
| 2 | Such remarks , along with the usual party-political imperatives , mean that she has been subject to reflex ridicule for being out of step . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's true she has been unkind to you , because she dislikes your faults , as Miss Scatcherd dislikes mine . |
| 4 | And Helen replies , she has been unkind to you , no doubt because , you see , she dislikes your cast of character as Miss Scatcherd does mine . |
| 5 | It is a great merit in Mrs Taylor that she has been content to be guided by her moral taste , which is very fine and true , without trying to form a set of principles upon it . |
| 6 | She has been good to me and although she knows there is something wrong and maybe suspects there is something I have not told her about she gives nothing away . |
| 7 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 8 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
| 9 | She 'd been used to hopping around and flapping about wherever she pleased , so it came as a bit of a shock to find her freedom of movement restricted by the jesses . |
| 10 | He could tell she 'd been used to ordering people about at one time . |
| 11 | I did n't understand what ‘ interest ’ was but she 'd been kind to me and I thought she would be kind to others and help them . |
| 12 | She had been loyal to him , had understood him better than in all his youth he had ever known . |
| 13 | She had been close to her own flat , the streetlights on , but she had fought alone . |
| 14 | She had been right to be wary of any new involvement , to stop things before they went too far . |
| 15 | After putting a trial foot several times in the river , Harriet launched herself and swam as if she had been used to water all her life . |
| 16 | She had been used to teaching in a country where English was the second language . |
| 17 | In the past she had been obliged to other people , William included , and it was n't good for the character . |
| 18 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 19 | Secretly , she had been grateful to the farmer who had strung barbed wire across that particular gate . |
| 20 | Throughout her life , she had been grateful to Somerville for teaching her to think and to write . |
| 21 | In any case , she was too scared to go back to sleep even if she had been able to . |
| 22 | She was contributing more than she had been able to before to her mother 's household expenses . |
| 23 | A hint she had been blind to because the very notion of suicide was so antithetical to her own nature . |
| 24 | She thought she had been sympathetic to him , but , in the pain of love herself , could she have been kinder ? |
| 25 | And though she had been sensitive to the château 's own architectural beauty , she had stripped one entire back portion of the interior in response to the natural environment . |
| 26 | She had been precious to each of them . |
| 27 | And on top of that she had been rude to her boss . |
| 28 | ‘ And the allegation that she had been disloyal to anyone was very firmly refuted . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm not fussed for myself , but Pauline 's younger and she 's been used to town life , see what I mean ? ’ |
| 30 | She 's been foul to poor Adam . ’ |