Example sentences of "she [verb] [be] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She carries in her wings great power and mystery even though she has been cast in these Cages for so long . |
| 2 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 3 | She has , you see how she has been pushed into this position . |
| 4 | She has been included in many mixed shows and in 1990 held her first sell-out one-woman exhibition at The Scottish Gallery , London . |
| 5 | ‘ She has been missing for several days now and we are concerned for her safety , ’ said a Garston police spokesman . |
| 6 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 7 | The touch of his hands on her back that afternoon … she 'd been gripped by such a war of reaction inside her . |
| 8 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 9 | She had a skullcracker of a headache , and guessed she 'd been opened in several places by knifecuts , branded in others by dollops of fire . |
| 10 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 11 | She 'd been married in that hat . |
| 12 | she 'd been put on that file — ‘ just by mistake ’ , |
| 13 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 14 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 15 | Since Ralph de Faye was a member of the house of the Viscounts of Cha tellerault this means that with the one exception of the Viscount of Thouars — who had earlier suffered badly as the result of a quarrel with Eleanor — she had been joined by all the leading barons of Poitou and the Angoumois . |
| 16 | If she had had any talent , if she had been born in another period and perhaps if her spirit had been lodged in the body of a man , she might just have been heroic . |
| 17 | She had been born in this apartment — in the bedroom that he slept in , maybe the very bed , she grinned — and she loved the place . |
| 18 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 19 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 20 | Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood . |
| 21 | She had been swopped with another baby 13 years before in a tragic hospital blunder . |
| 22 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 23 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 24 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |
| 25 | Besides , she had been caught like that by a man once before . |
| 26 | Even after she had been caught in that ruined church with Ginger Higby , that old bitch of a commandant in the women 's ambulance service had n't wanted to lose her . |
| 27 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 28 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 29 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 30 | But she had been battling against these odds for five hours , so perhaps her judgement was a little warped . |