Example sentences of "what she have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been in the royal straitjacket for five years and , like most women who marry and have children when they are very young , she began to realize what she had been missing out on . |
| 2 | She stopped , horrified at what she had been about to say . |
| 3 | For that was what she had been brought up to believe , that was how the rhyme went : |
| 4 | Mr Browning wrote to thank her for her diligence and in doing so confirmed what she had been certain of , that Miss Henrietta had died . |
| 5 | Nutty changed , and felt obliged to confess to her parents what she had been up to . |
| 6 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 7 | That was what she had been waiting for , that unguarded , unforced , totally natural reaction of a lowly apprentice who sees her work unfold like a fairytale . |
| 8 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
| 9 | Benny could see her mother sitting there stretching her hand out full of what she had been full of for months now : the huge advantages of being able to come home every night by bus . |
| 10 | If only there were some way to release her from this bondage , turn her again into what she had been ; a young actress on her way to the top of the ladder , as Papa had often put it ! |
| 11 | Meredith told him what she had been doing since they last met and Markby gave a summary of his own activities . |
| 12 | She wondered how much of what she had been born with was left . |
| 13 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 14 | They had watched her , in the council estate , they knew what she had been doing . |
| 15 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 16 | Aggie went away thinking about what she had been told and she confided in Nellie Tanner once more . |
| 17 | It was what she had been told by the sisters at the convent . |
| 18 | And when she reflected , as she frequently did , upon what she had been bred to , she was profoundly puzzled by her own origins . |
| 19 | Peering through the wrought iron barrier she watched the nuns file into their stalls , wondering why there was a screen separating what she had been told was the sanctuary from the rest of the chapel . |
| 20 | Much of what she had been telling had been brought out raggedly at first , there had been hesitations , intervals , while she was trying to see , groping for a piece in the jig-saw ; and then it all seemed to come to her , she only had to keep speaking . |
| 21 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
| 22 | She had never known any other man but Dan , but after tonight she was more than aware of what she had been missing all these years . |
| 23 | Anything , but anything was better than what she had been through . |
| 24 | What she had been used to see every month , postponed she had thought by the excitement , the travel . |
| 25 | She understood that — even the parts about the governing rules that made the cypher change — but her mind was too slow , too inflexible to hold and use what she had been shown . |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't think , ’ said Betty , looking suspiciously at Lydia , as though wondering what she had been up to while her own attention had been elsewhere . |
| 27 | ‘ We 'll mourn for it when we have time , ’ said Floy , touching her hand , and Fenella looked at him gratefully , because that was exactly what she had been feeling . |
| 28 | I certainly felt more empathy for my mother and what she had been through . |
| 29 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 30 | She did not like what she had been , murdered or murderer , victim or vampire . |