Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's a grey figure by comparison , Lee thought , muted where she had been abrasive , withdrawn when she had been a firebrand . |
| 2 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 3 | He had subsequently taken her to the cinema , where she had been startled to feel his hand creep into hers . |
| 4 | Lary means mouthy or she 'd was lary clothes , loud clothes . |
| 5 | Consequently a widow or widower will enjoy a higher retirement income than if or she had been single when they retired . |
| 6 | The professional takes control , makes all of the decisions , selects the information he or she thinks is relevant to the parents , and elicits only certain information that the professional feels is important . |
| 7 | An explorer who does not compile maps as he or she proceeds is likely to end up going round in circles ; likewise , a society that does not know where it has come from in the past has no chance of knowing where it is going in the future . |
| 8 | Section 5 of the Business Names Act 1985 provides that where a person fails to comply with the requirement set out in s. 5 and thereafter seeks to enforce a business contract with a party in default by means of a court action , ( a ) if the person in default can establish that he or she has a claim against the proprietor , which due to the proprietor 's failure to comply with s. 5 he or she has been unable to pursue , or ( b ) if a breach by the proprietor of s. 5 has caused the person in default some financial loss , the proprietor 's claim shall be dismissed , unless it is ‘ just and equitable ’ that the proprietor should be allowed to continue the action . |
| 9 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 10 | The second problem was her aversion to handing out money to charity ; although she enjoyed being able to help specific ventures in a practical way she hated the idea of charity balls or making large cash handouts . |
| 11 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 12 | Although she had been unaware that the small print contained a wide exclusion clause , the Court of Appeal held that the clause protected the seller from liability in respect of defects in the machine . |
| 13 | For the past twenty-four hours , she had swallowed none of her medication , although she had been unable to refuse an injection . |
| 14 | He had sunk so low that she had been obliged to approach Dr McNab for his help . |
| 15 | THE woman who left her 11-year-old daughter alone in a London flat while she went on holiday to Spain denied last night that she had been heartless or wicked . |
| 16 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 17 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 18 | Stephen was almost sure this was n't so , that she had been twenty-eight when he was born and thirty-four when she ran away . |
| 19 | Within a month Wilson saw with her own eyes that she had been right . |
| 20 | As she looked at her niece 's radiant face , Louise felt sure that she had been right to approach Monsieur de Levantiére . |
| 21 | Writing it reinforced her conviction that she had been right to stay in Florence . |
| 22 | Rourke had made no move to contact her after she had left the office yesterday morning , and that had to mean that she had been right in her assumptions . |
| 23 | Well , now that she was no longer there , he would have to pay attention ; would know that she had been serious . |
| 24 | She had never changed her mind , and now she was more convinced than ever that she had been one hundred per cent correct . |
| 25 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 26 | The heavy lunch and the wine had made her sleepy , and she took to her bed the minute they returned , only awakening when the hunger pangs assaulted her stomach , to see that she had been asleep for over three hours . |
| 27 | It was in this way that my friend confided in me when she dreamed , with great clarity , that she had been present at her own funeral gathering . |
| 28 | She told me that she had been present when Balbinder was tested by the educational psychologist . |
| 29 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 30 | Davies added that she had been present at a phone conversation in December when Doyle had assured one of the players that all $300,000 of the prizemoney was ‘ in the bank . ’ |