Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] she [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The the father would be on the boat , and the son would , as a young boy , would come to meet the workers that came back and he begins to help with the ropes and the winching up of the boat and the washing down , and so on , of the boat after she 's been on service , and so on . |
| 2 | And if any of his fans still needed convincing , they had only to look into the happy , laughing face of his adoring wife Jean , at his side as she has been since his horrific car accident nearly three months ago . |
| 3 | She then moved to Bristol City Council where she has been for some months . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , Mr Varna , I 'm so sorry … ’ she stuttered , even more horrified by her gaffe than she had been about letting a strange woman push her way into the holy of holies . |
| 5 | Marrying him was one thing ; loving him and defying her family and Father Dowd had taken more courage and determination than she knew was in her . |
| 6 | ‘ She thinks she 's a radical 'cause she 's been to West Belfast once and scribbled Bernadette Devlin 's name in pencil on the Falls Wall ! ’ |
| 7 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 8 | Unfortunately has been unable to edit this issue as she has been in Charing Cross Hospital for treatment after her mole pregnancy earlier this year . |
| 9 | Back in the main sitting room where she had been at first she was introduced to Antonietta 's husband Gennaro who was the head of the household . |
| 10 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 11 | Peggy has been a member of the union for twenty three years been a shop steward for eleven years the last nine at K P Foods and also branch quality officer , been a branch committee member and a member of the Midland and East Coast regional council member of the regional Labour women 's conference and she 's been to G M B congress , congress on a number of occasions . |
| 12 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 13 | This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with . |
| 14 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 15 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 16 | The answer to why she had felt neither violent revulsion nor nausea when she had been in Naylor Massingham 's arms evaded Leith . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew my mum because she 'd been with me at the hospital and I remembered my grandad because of his bald head . |
| 18 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 19 | After some spirited discussion Margaret agreed with the policy but pointed out with some feeling that she had been in the chair of every meeting of the Economic Committee throughout the Falklands crisis . |
| 20 | I think it was just the thought that she 'd been on it you know , and a nice bit of heat and everything , relaxing . |
| 21 | This was the first time in her life that she 'd been in the company of a man who could bring her out in nervous flushes , make her heartbeat race and her stomach turn all watery , just by watching her … |
| 22 | They had helped with their mother 's care when she had been at home , and taken part in planning her funeral . |
| 23 | In her heart she thought : Kind as she has been to me , and much as I respect her , your wife , my lord , is the last lady living to whom I am likely to apply . |
| 24 | Harriet says it 's unusual for chess to make the front pages of the papers , in spite of the fact that she 's been on the front page of The Times . |