Example sentences of "[noun] she [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She will stay with the man at whose side she has been for years , Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 2 | The only parties she attends are in a business capacity … ’ |
| 3 | Apart from a year at Westfield College she has been on the staff of the Department of French at Reading University since 1962 , progressing from Tutorial Assistant to a personal chair as Professor of French . |
| 4 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 5 | She raised troubled eyes to her sister , and for the first time Claudia saw a glimpse of the Dana she had been before ambition and the love of money had taken over her life . |
| 6 | It was ironical that the man she had just rebuked should be the only one who had shown interest in her as a woman during the fifteen months she had been on the station . |
| 7 | And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone . |
| 8 | The one battle she lost was over the dog , Hector . |
| 9 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |
| 10 | It must have been the boarding-school she had been to which determined her voice , affected , sharp , shrill . |
| 11 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |
| 12 | The noise she made was like a cry from hell , and James knew her suffering had turned this place into hell itself . |
| 13 | Of course she had been in love , for years and years , and perhaps , she sometimes wondered , that experience had spoiled her . |
| 14 | Nervous , perhaps , on edge maybe , because it seemed to her that she would have to keep her wits about her unless she wanted this outing to end up as fruitless as the other times she had been in his company . |
| 15 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |
| 16 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 17 | Last weekend well for a couple of weeks she 's been on a downer . |
| 18 | The tousled girl in front of me , she was reading a buxom magazine : its text was in French , I think , but even I could tell that the article she scanned was about fellatio technique — blowjob knowhow . |
| 19 | ‘ And since Sydney she 's been in Wellington , gaining experience as a programme manager . ’ |
| 20 | Any conference she 'd been to , everyone wound up in her room long after midnight , playing poker and spouting Bacardi bullshit , wine-bottle wisdom . |
| 21 | The places she 's been in the last couple |
| 22 | In all the desperate , toiling years she had been in Canada , neither her husband nor her son had ever made themselves a meal , except on one or two occasions when illness had confined her to bed . |
| 23 | There had obviously been something wrong with the Cashman ménage for some time — why else would Cindy Hill have lied about her whereabouts , telling her husband she had been in Wales when she had really been in a London nightclub ? |
| 24 | She soon decided that the house was the most beautiful place she had ever seen , and though she had little experience of antique furniture or fine art works she immediately recognised that all the things she saw were of the highest quality . |
| 25 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 26 | One minute she had been on her hands and knees scrubbing and the next she was being wined and dined by the owner of the largest store in town . |
| 27 | She had always believed there would be someone special — for a while she had been under the illusion that that someone was Marcus . |
| 28 | For a while she had been in paradise ; now it was over . |
| 29 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 30 | Abruptly , and with a habit she had been on the way to forgetting he had , Ven Gajdusek cut her off again . |