Example sentences of "her [noun] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Her enthusiasm had been infectious . |
| 3 | Her case had been that the husband had deliberately refrained from discussing the matter of the charge with her during the whole weekend . |
| 4 | Her case had been referred to the Court of Appeal by the United Kingdom Home Secretary in September 1991 after forensic evidence given at her trial had been called into question [ see p. 38445 ] . |
| 5 | The evasive answers told her progress had been minimal , it was going to be some time before Emelda faced a press launch . |
| 6 | Her progress had been one of near-collisions , dodging round cases and people , and just as the gate she 'd wanted had come in sight she had seen Lori and a man passing through . |
| 7 | Her face , her jaw had been implanted too in the Callidus laboratory … |
| 8 | She spoke softly , lisping slightly , and Lewis immediately noticed ( what he had not been told ) that two teeth in the upper left of her jaw had been broken off . |
| 9 | Two of her sons had been killed in 1980 and the other disappeared in 1981 . |
| 10 | Her reactions had been childish , the behaviour of a spoiled brat , but he had a cheek to point it out when he was only an employee of her father 's . |
| 11 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
| 12 | I sent her Nit Ac LM1 and did n't hear anything for a year when she rang up with a headache — it turned out that the anal fissure had cleared quickly and she felt she had been miraculously well given her sister had been murdered 12mths previously and she 'd had 4 months leave of absence from work to deal with the aftermath which had involved her nephew joining the family . |
| 13 | Elizabeth certainly had a much tighter control over her Council than her sister had been able to exercise . |
| 14 | Donna saw the exhibit her sister had been looking at and crossed to it . |
| 15 | Her case had been referred to the Court of Appeal by the United Kingdom Home Secretary in September 1991 after forensic evidence given at her trial had been called into question [ see p. 38445 ] . |
| 16 | Her luck had been pushed , most probably of necessity , too far . |
| 17 | But the overall effect of two minutes in her presence had been to fill him with an all powerful sense of her sex . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her employers had been in general the aspiring mothers of young daughters of tradesmen — the honest working citizens whom her father would have disparagingly stigmatised as ‘ cits ’ — hoping that a little of Theda 's quality might rub off on their uncouth girls to help them to an advantageous marriage . |
| 20 | She ran , sharp and sly as any fox , round the corner of the house and on , beneath the three windows of the drawing room and two of the morning room , until she stopped , chilled in anxiety , under the open window of the dining room , through which her marvel had been cast out . |
| 21 | When the sister was summoned up and said it was her grave had been dug , he realised there was nothing more he could do and the whole thing was adjourned to the community centre for a couple of hours while big men with shovels rather grudgingly got to work . ’ |
| 22 | All her hair had been burnt away but for the black roots and her features hideously charred . |
| 23 | What remained of her hair had been clipped and plastered close to her head in a most unflattering style . |
| 24 | Her hair had been flattened by the storm so that it made Trent think of a squashed astrakan hat . |
| 25 | As her hair had been squashed down by her David Shilling spotted hat , she put on her prettiest blond wig with the tendrils over the forehead . |
| 26 | Her hair had been braided and was concealed under a heart-shaped silver head-dress with a transparent white veil . |
| 27 | Aggie was dressed for the day : her hands and face looked clean , her hair had been combed ; she was wearing a clean blue-striped blouse . |
| 28 | Her hair had been swept up to the top of her head , from whence it was allowed to fall in ringlets to her neck . |
| 29 | Her hair had been washed in a coconut shampoo and gleamed under the light . |
| 30 | She looked a bit different , somehow , old Doris for one thing , she had a clean apron on , and her hair had been home-permed . |