Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [been] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 2 | Linda Evangelista was brilliantly marketed but there was never quite the attention until she had been established for quite a long time . ’ |
| 3 | The conditional bail had been granted after she had been arrested for shouting ‘ scab ’ at working miners . |
| 4 | After she had been arrested for playing the two-backed beast with Culpepper — and me , though I was n't caught , but there again that 's another tale — the king 's guards came to take her whilst she was staying at Hampton Court . |
| 5 | Karen had dipped badly in her A-levels and had done two years in a commerce school before she 'd been accepted for her degree course . |
| 6 | That incident so many years ago when she had been punished for the supposed loss of the ring was etched indelibly in her mind . |
| 7 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |
| 8 | Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week . |